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A review by labunnywtf
Goodnight, You by Geneviève Côté
4.0
My first book after joining Netgalley, and it was a good one. I knew I was going to be spending time with my godchildren, ages 3 and 5, so I went looking for a cute children's book. It should be obvious I went straight for one that featured a bunny on the cover.
I don't understand where the title comes from. When I saw it, I figured it was something along the lines of "Goodnight Moon", where two friends are talking before going to sleep, or something like that. It doesn't tell you that this is about being afraid, and how everyone is a little afraid of something, and how to make it not so scary.
My godchildren really enjoyed this (though there was a battle over who got to say, "BUNNY!", "PIG!", and "FROG!" when the pages were turned). I judge children's books by how much fun can be had while reading the book aloud, and whether the kids get to interact. And they really got into it. When the monster is "big and ugly", we made silly faces. When the monster crept close, I "snuck" up on Alli. When the monster growled, we all growled at each other.
I can see them grabbing this regularly from the shelf to be read for the fun characters.
I don't understand where the title comes from. When I saw it, I figured it was something along the lines of "Goodnight Moon", where two friends are talking before going to sleep, or something like that. It doesn't tell you that this is about being afraid, and how everyone is a little afraid of something, and how to make it not so scary.
My godchildren really enjoyed this (though there was a battle over who got to say, "BUNNY!", "PIG!", and "FROG!" when the pages were turned). I judge children's books by how much fun can be had while reading the book aloud, and whether the kids get to interact. And they really got into it. When the monster is "big and ugly", we made silly faces. When the monster crept close, I "snuck" up on Alli. When the monster growled, we all growled at each other.
I can see them grabbing this regularly from the shelf to be read for the fun characters.