Goodnight Moon.

For many baby boomers, the book "Goodnight Moon", was a part of a nightly routine.
Written by Margaret Wise Brown in 1947, the book is not so much a story as a bedtime ritual.  The bunny rabbit cannot go to bed until he says goodnight to everything that he sees.
On first glance, the pictures in this book are simplistic, but if you take the time out to examine them you will see that they change in tiny ways during the course of the story.  A few that come to mind are the mittens on the dryer rack that appear and disappear, the mouse's location throughout the story, and of course, the most obvious, the light in the room growing dimmer as the story progresses.
Margaret Wise Brown wrote all her books for children. Some of the books she wrote were "Goodnight Moon", she wrote "Runaway Bunny", "The Fur Family"", and in the Golden book series, The Color Kittens", "Scruppers, the Sailor Dog", and "Home for a Bunny". Her love of children was such that when she died, childless at age 42 of a blood clot, her will gave the royalty rights to a neighbor, Albert Clarke who was the nine year old son of a neighbor.
Goodnight Moon is a book which has often been parodied.  Among the various takes on the book are "Goodnight Keith Moon",  "Goodnight Bush" and "Goodnight Goon":, a version that feeds into your inner zombie.  My personal favorite is "Nighty Night Toons"  done by the Animaniacs. But then I loved that show.
Parodies aside, if you get a chance to pick up "Goodnight Moon" for your little ones, you'll be giving them plenty of happy memories, and more importantly, a peaceful transition to bedtime.
Goodnight Blog!