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A review by brassaf
Goodnight Opus by Berkeley Breathed
5.0
I picked this book for BenTime Story #1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGaUvVxIrNk&list=PL1OUv8cvynb3vQOq8oRYXqgG8Nk6ND3Mj
With the novel coronavirus of 2020 causing me to quarantine and socially distance, and seeing the effect it was having on my community, I decided to start recording myself reading books on YouTube in the hopes that kids might have something fun to do, even if only for a few minutes, while they're "stuck" at home. I'm partnering with Read It Again Books in Suwanee, Georgia. I picked one of my all time favorites for my "test" read. In this read-through, where I had no live audience, I was surprised about how "grown up" some of the book was. Berkeley Breathed doesn't pander to his audience, which are the kids at heart. But also, kids. I wonder if my kids, whom I read this book to many times when they were little, could keep up with some of the richer text. Perhaps they didn't need to, because they had the beautiful pictures, and their dad (or mom) helping them piece together some of the more grown-up vocabulary. A win-win. Berekely Breathed continues to entertain me all these years later.
With the novel coronavirus of 2020 causing me to quarantine and socially distance, and seeing the effect it was having on my community, I decided to start recording myself reading books on YouTube in the hopes that kids might have something fun to do, even if only for a few minutes, while they're "stuck" at home. I'm partnering with Read It Again Books in Suwanee, Georgia. I picked one of my all time favorites for my "test" read. In this read-through, where I had no live audience, I was surprised about how "grown up" some of the book was. Berkeley Breathed doesn't pander to his audience, which are the kids at heart. But also, kids. I wonder if my kids, whom I read this book to many times when they were little, could keep up with some of the richer text. Perhaps they didn't need to, because they had the beautiful pictures, and their dad (or mom) helping them piece together some of the more grown-up vocabulary. A win-win. Berekely Breathed continues to entertain me all these years later.