This is my daughter's FAVORITE book. We have taken it out of the library on 4 different occasions over the second and third years of her life. I would love to have it in print again, and there is no need to update the pictures, they are very attractive to young child. Even weeks after we have read it and then come to a stop light, she still says "red light they they cannot go, green light they can". Find this book and give it to a young person you love.

This is a story about Muffin, an adorable, little black dog who is full of adventure. If you are fond of sailing and the beach, look no further for a book that takes you there with the sights and sounds of the ocean.

My sons and I have a ball imitating the sounds - especially the bell buoy! It is a very silly, sweet book.

I highly recommend this book for all ages!

A delightful "sleepy-time" book to be read over and over again to your child when it's bedtime! The reassurance your child will receive that The Sleepy Little Lion in this story is so adorably sleepy that NOTHING will keep him awake, is enough to relax children into bed and naptimes through repeated readings. This book is a genuine treasure for parents and children who will truly enjoy it's oversize, black and white, photographic detail and simple story. The book is charming, captures a child's imagination, and helps releive all the day's adventures. Like The Sleepy Little Lion, children are lulled into safe and loving comfort when they experience this book.

We borrowed this book from our local library and my 3 yr old can't get enough of it. This is absolutely a perfect bedtime story for toddlers, and parents get a kick out of it too when our kids start to tell it from memory. Especially the part about the "big fat dinner". I highly recommend this for anyone with a toddler.

Why isn't this book better known? It's too bad that sweet, quiet, and enduring books like this one often get overlooked for flashier but less nourishing fare.

Margaret Wise Brown's poetry makes little immediate impact--and this is its secret strength. She wrote things meant to deepen over repeated readings rather than something that would impress at first but quickly become stale. Not much children's literature can stand up to being ready hundreds of times, but Brown's really does. The simple and artfully repetitive poems are best appreciated by someone, like me, who has read this book aloud many times to a child.

The greatest strength of the book, however, may be the gentle yet visually fascinating illustrations by Tom Leonard. who himself deserves more attention. His series of illustrations of animals and landscapes creates a world for Brown's poetry to inhabit. Leonard does a wonderful job of interpreting Brown's often spare literary style, evoking mood and sometimes filling in as storyteller.

This 1953 story begins with Ms. Wise's typically lyrical prose: "Born at sea in the teeth of a gale, the sailor was a dog. Scuppers was his name." However, much of the book's language is not quite as enchanting, nor as warmly and wisely love-soaked as Ms. Brown's "Runaway Bunny." Perhaps it's just that this is aimed at a slightly older reader/listener than 'Bunny.'

The revelation here (in this Golden Book edition) is the very richly-hued palette of Garth Williams, who, for example, uses orange, purple, and varied shades of green with originality and flair. Some of his pictures recall (and may have inspired?) Richard Scarrey's busily occupied town creatures. The two-page illustration of Scuppers asleep in his cabin may very well lull your little one to sleep, and invite adult fantasies of building a cozy houseboat. Recommended!

I read this story to my son while he was quite young. It was and still is his favorite childhood book. He is now 32, has sailed the western hemisphere from Puget Sound since the age of 18 choosing small, older craft that have classic lines. He is as resourceful and creative as Scuppers and knows what he wants from life. He has patterned his life of adventure and travel on this little guy, Scuppers The Salyor Dog, (his pronunciation). I can't imagine a better "role model" for a young boy or girl.

Excellent illustrations and a wonderful story about this can-do dog named Scuppers. Great cozy scenes, adventure, rocking boats, ship wrecks, house building, everything you ever need. The best book of my childhood.

Some books become experiences in themselves, and as any parent who cherishes this book can tell you, "Goodnight Moon" is one of those books.

The lush illustrations, full of detail and delight, give us a good view of the bunny's room as he gets ready to say goodnight and go to sleep. At the beginning of the story, his room is still light. Bunny is protracting the bedtime like any self-respecting toddler--in his case, he is saying "goodnight" to every single object in his room.

My children and I read this in a cadence that became part of the book. They chanted it along with me, and never tired of finding the elusive mouse, whose whereabouts change from page to page. We all said goodnight to everything in the room together--the comb and the brush and the bowl of mush were huge favorites.

Finally, the room darkens, the bunny's eyes start to close, and hopefully, one's own children are in the same condition. I love this book, as do my children, and hopefully when the time comes, their children will as well.

My daughter received this book as a gift for her 1 yr birthday(She is now 22 mos old and still loves this book. We read it every night before bed). At first, when I read it, I wasn't impressed with it at all. But then, the more we read it, I became wrapped up in the story through my daughter's enthusiasm of finding the little mouse in the pages and realized the sheer joy of her learning experience through reading and imagination. The lines are very short so little ones won't be easily bored waiting for the page to turn and it is so much fun for her to find the little mouse in each colored page, to watch her put her little finger to her mouth and whisper 'hush' with the little old lady in the corner, and to point out other objects in the room.

The story is based on a little bunny going to bed and saying goodnight to various items in his room and with each turn of the page, the light in his room grows dimmer. '...Goodnight mush/And goodnight to the old lady whispering "hush"/Goodnight stars/Goodnight air/Goodnight noises everywhere' and with that the room is dark and the bunny is fast asleep. The book alternates between color pages and black & white pages during the story. The pages show full color the little bunny's room where a little mouse hides in different areas and is waiting to be found by little searching eyes. Then the pages alternate to black and white that show other items that are found in the room that the bunny says goodnight to.

I have also found that if my daughter is hyper before bedtime, this book helps calm her down through the repetition of saying goodnight, by lowering my voice with each page that we turn and it actually helps prepare her for bed just like the bunny.

This is a very short, very colorful and very fun book for little ones. I highly recommend it.

I have a friend who has recently become an elementary school teacher and is teaching kindergarten. She talked me into coming in to read to her class--any book(s)I wanted to bring with me.

My reading gig is coming up this week so this past weekend I asked my 16 year old daughter to go through her old children's books (she has 50-60 of her old favorites still on a bookshelf in her room) and she emerged with 2 or three books for the kid's but also with Goodnight Moon--which she wanted me to read to her.

As Miss Zoe was growing up we'd read every night and Zoe (my daughter) got to choose what we read. She'd usually pick 2 to 3 books and, for years and years, Goodnight Moon was always one of them.

The book itself is somewhat inexplicable--mostly it's just a silly little poem, really--but for my kids it really struck a chord. All I know is that if your sixteen year old daughter wants to curl up on the couch and have you read one of her childhood books to her, that's quite a book.

I always give this to friends when they have a first baby, and I have always found that a few years later they are still telling me it is their kid's favorite book.

So don't try to figure it out, just buy it and read it to your kids. It'll be a treasure you share for years.

An endearing book about a little bunny that wants to run away, and the mother bunny who wants to run after him, "for you are my little bunny". A sweet tale of a mother's love and a bunny's imagination. When the bunny imagines he becomes a fish to swim away from her, she imagines she will become a fisherman and fish for him. Each idea the bunny comes up with, the mother knows what to become to make sure she gets her bunny back! The story has both black and white illustrations (where the bunnies are talking) and then a 2 page color illustration with each instance of mother getting her bunny in their imagination, such as a delightful picture of Mother bunny in a river with fishing boots; holding a line with a carrot on it to catch little bunny.
This is a wonderful, loving book to read to your child(ren).

As an adult, this is one of the books from my childhood that I kept with me. The illustrations are beautiful, and the sentiment is timeless. This is a book about a mother's love for her child, and how she will accept his changes and adventures and always be there with him, guiding and nurturing him. I remember, as a small child, waiting with glee for the wordless color double-pages so that I could point out which flower or sailboat was the baby bunny and sort out which part of the illustration was the mother bunny, as well.

How many times in life have we come home to our parents, exhausted and wanting unquestioning, loyal support? If only they all could welcome us home with the words, "Have a carrot."

Now that I have a daughter, I've been given this book in board-book form, and it's wonderful. She can knock it around without it getting utterly destroyed. The age this book is really perfect for, though, is right around two years old.

I first heard a few lines from this book on a T.V. show, and I was in tears! I ran straight to my computer and ordered it. This book is a must have for every child (and parent!). I have never read a book expressing the love of a mother for her child so beautifully. The mother bunny becomes whatever it takes for her to "find" her little bunny as he dreams of different things to be to run away from her. The mother bunny doesn't condemn him, but conforms to his thoughts and dreams and "chases" after him as he tells her what he will become and how he'll run away. I loved the way the mother spoke so lovingly to her little bunny, letting him know that no matter where he went, she'd find him. My son loves the brilliantly colorful images on every other page. It is a nice contrast to the black and white writing in between. This has become a favorite in my home and I intend to give this book as a gift to any and every mother (or mother-to-be) that I know!