Monday, June 24, 2013

Good Night Moon


Goodnight Moon
by Margaret Wise Brown
In the great green room
there was a telephone
and a red balloon
and a picture of...
The cow jumping over the moon
And there were three little bears sitting on chairs

And two little kittens And a pair of mittens
And a little toy house And a young mouse

And a comb and a brush and a bowl full of mush
And a quiet old lady who was whispering "hush"

Goodnight room Goodnight room
Goodnight cow jumping over the moon

Goodnight light and the red balloon
Goodnight bears Goodnight chairs

Goodnight kittens and Goodnight mittens

Goodnight clocks and goodnight socks

Goodnight little house and Goodnight mouse

Goodnight comb and Goodnight brush

Goodnight nobody Goodnight mush

And Goodnight to the old lady whispering "hush"

Goodnight stars Goodnight air

Goodnight noises everywhere


IS THIS SAD?
DO YOU READ IT AS A WAY OF ENDING A DAY
OR A WAY OF ENDING CHILDHOOD?
ARE YOU EVER SURPRISED TO FIND OUT LATER THAT THINGS WERE NOT QUITE THE WAY YOU REMEMBERED THEM?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

This was a bedtime ritual for all of my children. Their favorite part was the blank page that says "Goodnight, Nobody." I don't think of the book as sad--but there is a certain bittersweet melancholy knowing that that part of their childhoods are long gone.

Deb

Anonymous said...

I don't find it sad either.


Jeff M.

pattinase (abbott) said...

Sadder than Pat the Bunny though. Saying goodbye/goodnight is always sad to me.

Anonymous said...

Didn't she also write The Velveteen Rabbit? Now that is a sad book--I've never been able to finish reading it aloud to my kids without choking up.

Deb

pattinase (abbott) said...

Margery Williiams.

Loren Eaton said...

I read this as a okay-time-to-pull-up-the-cover-yes-you-may-have-a-cup-of-water-but-you-must-stay-in-bed kind of story.