Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown

Specifics
Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, Illustrated by Clement Hurd
Published by Harper and Row, Publishers, 1947

Target Audience
Lexile level AD360L
This book is great for beginning readers, kindergarten to third grade

Summary
This book is about a room, where a baby bunny is about to go to sleep. It goes through what everything in the room is, and it says goodnight to everything in the room. Because this book has been around for so long, this book is kind of like a lullaby to put children to sleep to.

Evaluation
This book is a great story because it is so simple. It is just saying goodnight to everything, because everything needs to go to sleep. The detailed description of everything in the room makes the reader feel like they are in that room. The characters fit the setting. The language used in telling the story felt very natural, possibly because it is rhyming and so easy to read.

Lesson
This book would be good to teach students how to write a simple poem, because of the uses of assonance and alliteration. The hyperbole of a cow jumping over the moon would be a good example to point out to students.