I Love You, Good Night [Paperback]

Susan Schade (Author), Jon Buller (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1990 | Age Level: 4 and up

A series of tender exchanges between a mother and child make this a wonderful little book to share at tuck-in time. Full-color illustrations.

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From the Publisher

In this quiet bedtime read-together book, a mother and daughter take turns saying how much they love each other. The pleasant game is played while the daughter is being readied for bed and ends with a goodnight kiss and hug.END

About the Author

Susan Schade and Jon Buller, a husband-and-wife team, have

worked together on many previous books for children. Jon does the

illustrating and Susan writes the stories. For the Fog Mound trilogy, Jon

went back to what first sparked his interest in drawing -- comics. They

live in Lyme, Connecticut.

Bernadette Pons lives in Paris with her husband and three daughters. She also illustrated Scrubba Dub, Nancy Van Laan's companion volume to Tickle Tum! --This text refers to the Board book edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Little Simon (June 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671702971
• ISBN-13: 978-0671702977
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #472,119 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful and easy to memorize!, June 27, 2000

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This review is from: I Love You, Good Night (Paperback)

I first read this book while I was a nanny for a beautiful, intelligent little girl. At the time, she was 3 years old and owned over 300 books! She knew almost every one of them by heart. This book was one of her favorites and mine. We would read this before her nap and she could tell me what was coming up on the next page. It cute and so easy to memorize. Memorizing a simple, loving book like this one, shows your child how important reading books is in life. Plus, everyone wants to know how much they are loved! I love this book, like "...pigs love pies!"

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I Love You Like Blueberry Pancakes, September 9, 2008

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Bryan Carey "Bryan Carey" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Love You, Good Night (Paperback)

Kids love to play and, with a few exceptions, they hate to go to sleep. They often require a little encouragement to turn in for the night and there are many books that were written to persuade children to get the rest they need. These books often lead up to the subject of sleep through various means, like talking about relaxing thoughts, illustrating animals sleeping, or depicting the dark of night to get kids in the mood for some much needed rest.

I Love You, Good Night, in spite of its title, is a little different type of book. Its title led me to believe that it was going to be a book about falling asleep, but it isn't exactly that type of book. It is actually a book about expressing love for your little one by comparing this feeling to other types of loving feelings and loving relationships. Starting with I Love You Like Blueberry Pancakes, the book continues this theme all the way to the end, when it encourages kids to fall asleep by showing the two main characters- a mother mouse and her child- in the child's bedroom (Note: There are different versions of this book; one with people and one with animals. Mine features animals) with the mother mouse whispering I Love You, Good Night.

This book is effective for several reasons. First, I like the way the baby mouse in the book is not illustrated with any respect to its gender. You can't tell if the baby mouse is a boy or girl and this is good for children because they will not feel excluded one way or the other. Second, the rhyming pattern gives the book some much needed rhythm. Each set of pages ends in a word that then rhymes with the last word on the next set of pages and this makes the book more readable for children.

The illustrations in this book offer a cartoon- like appearance with an assortment of colors. The backgrounds on each set of pages are not as cluttered as they are in some children's books. Instead, they are rather basic and they help to focus the attention on the mother and her child.

Like I said, this isn't really a night time book in the usual sense, because it doesn't set the mood for falling asleep like some other books. But it will still suffice as a bedtime story since it ends with the baby mouse falling asleep in its bed. Some children might quickly get the message on the books final pages and accept this as a cue to get some sleep. Others children will not, but it couldn't hurt to at least try using it for this purpose.

Overall, this is a very good children's book and I like the rhymes and the simple message. Some of the comparisons are a little corny, but little children in the toddler to young grade school age group will enjoy the book nonetheless and they should have no problem picking up on the book's important main message.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Our baby's favorite, February 21, 2006

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Emily A. Crawford (Blacksburg, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Love You, Good Night (Board book)

This was an impulse purchase Christmas present for our seven-month-old. At the same time, we purchased two classic books for babies, ones we knew and loved already from reading to our older children, and which we thought were sure to please. From the first day this one was her clear favorite over the others -- at nine months now she will dig it out of a pile of books, pushing others aside when we try to offer them, and she "talks" to and laughs at the illustrations all the way through. I am thrilled with how well the book has engaged her interest (and I can't say I mind the excuses for "kisses and cuddles", either), so I give the book my highest recommendation.