Good Night Moon

         I remember reading this as a kid and loving it. Reading it again, I couldn't figure out why it had been such a classic book during my childhood. The story was simple with few words and the images not as exciting as other books. I asked my mom in the car about this book to see if she would remember anything and she gave me some helpful information. She said that this book was more fun than other books because it was one of the first books that had an untold story hiding within the images that didn't come out in the text. The images have allot going on that you wouldn't notice at first and it was really fun as a kid to find all these "hidden" things. For example, the mouse that showed up in different places on every page, and the mittens moved around and had to be found. It was an interactive book with lot's of detail. This made it fun for a kid with a big imagination. And the story was so simple that you could practically memorize it by the third or fourth read. As a grown up, I completely forgot about all these things and so reading this book again, I did not pin it as a great book because it lacked a dramatic, advanced story line and amazing artwork. I think I'll need to ask kids what they think is great literature, since my idea of great children's books might be really different than what kids like. 

          I think this would be a good book to have in the classroom library for kids to browse through themselves.