Ruth Krauss
Birth date: July 25, 1901
Died: July 10, 1993
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This is a fairly typical "goodnight" board book in which a child says goodnight to everything (goodnight toes, goodnight stuffed animals, etc.) before finally going to bed. Really cute illustrations.
Delightfully, childishly absurd yet profound
Imagine the process in the child's head! Birds fly, I fly (on a swing), so I am a bird! That's awesome! Now I want to pretend all the time using the things around me and developing my imagination!
I originally was wondering about the purpose of this book (and my original commentary is here) and I am now convinced that maybe I was a little hasty in writing my original review. The more that I think about this book (and maybe I have been thinking a little bit too much about this book, but then a...
I really do not understand the purpose of this book. It has a series of pictures of silly thing with a question underneath it (such as is this your family, is this where you go to school, is this what you eat for breakfast) and then at the end of each section it asks you to draw a picture correspond...
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