The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Brown, Margaret Wise

Goodnight Moon 123: A Counting Book

30 pp. | HarperFestival | February, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-224405-5 $9.99
New ed. (2007)

(4) PS Illustrated by Clement Hurd. This counting book lifts parts of Brown's writing and fragments from Hurd's illustrations to demonstrate numbers one through ten and one hundred. Some pages use figures and text in a way that makes sense ("One quiet old lady whispering hush"; "Three little bears sitting on chairs"), while others are arbitrary ("Five telephones"; "Six bowls of mush"). The smaller size of this board book edition doesn't detract from the layout.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth