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A reviewer in Reading Time wrote "Mem Fox's rhymed rhythmic text teams brilliantly with Judy’s bright quirky cartoon illustrations", [1] and Publishers Weekly wrote "for times when a single bedtime story just isn't enough, ...". [2] There have been further reviews by Kirkus Reviews, [3] School Library Journal. [4]
Of course, one of the important parts is the art". [1] School Library Journal wrote: "Charming illustrations and comfortable rhymes characterize this appealing bedtime book". [1] It has also been reviewed by Kirkus Reviews, [2] Publishers Weekly, [3] and Common Sense Media. [4] It appears on The Daily Telegraph's 100 best children's books of ...
She wrote down the story in the morning, with the original title of the book being Goodnight Room. [5] Brown gave illustrator Clement Hurd very little direction on the illustrations, [2] and the characters in Goodnight Moon are depicted as rabbits because Hurd was better at drawing rabbits than humans. [2]
Molly (Mary Elizabeth) Brett grew up in the English county of Surrey, surrounded by animals and nature.Her mother, Mary Gould Brett, was a respected animal painter who encouraged her daughter to paint from life, and this is reflected in Molly's gift for making her animals look thoroughly naturalistic while giving them human characteristics and activities.
The Brave Little Toaster is a 1980 novella by American writer Thomas M. Disch intended for children or, as put by the author, a "bedtime story for small appliances". The story centers on a group of five household appliances—a tensor lamp stand, an electric blanket, an AM radio alarm clock, a vacuum cleaner and a toaster—on their quest to find their original owner referred to as the Master.
The term "bedtime story" was coined by Louise Chandler Moulton in her 1873 book, Bed-time Stories.The "ritual of an adult reading out loud to a child at bedtime formed mainly in the second half of the nineteenth century and achieved prominence in the early twentieth century in tandem with the rising belief that soothing rituals were necessary for children at the end of the day.
Garth Montgomery Williams (April 16, 1912 – May 8, 1996) was an American artist who came to prominence in the American postwar era as an illustrator of children's books. . Many of the books he illustrated have become classics of American children's literatu
Children's book illustration is a subfield of book illustration, and a genre of art associated with children's literature. Children's books with illustrations are often known as picture books . Illustrations contribute to the children's development and provides them with aesthetic impressions.