I Read to Bunnies

bits of life in children's books

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Goodnight Moon Storybook App

Snuggling not included

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"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd

Last night's blue moon happens once every three years, but how many times is "Goodnight Moon" read each night throughout the land?

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Well, I don’t especially like children, either. At least not as a group. I won’t let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.

Margaret Wise Brown, quoted in an amusing piece by Katie Roiphe on the restless life of "Brownie"

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"Let's Go, Hugo" by Angela Dominguez

Hugo is a bird in Paris who wears a scarf and prefers to walk. He dreams of seeing the Eiffel Tower, but he is afraid to fly.

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It is silly that the bird won't even fly.

Older Bunny

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"Bunnies Are For Kissing" by Allia Zobel Nolan

Illustrated by Jacqueline East

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Bunnies Are For Kissing

I was once in a cab with my political science professor and another classmate. We were in Jinan, China for a study abroad program, and the topic of memorizing and reciting poetry arose. It is a lost practice among students nowadays.

“I know a poem,” I said. After all, I competed in UIL Oral Reading with Robert Frost. My prof was excited, “Let me hear it.” I faltered and fell flat.

If I’m ever in that cab again, there are at least three children’s books I can recite. “Bunnies Are For Kissing” is one of them.

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"Read To Your Bunny" by Rosemary Wells

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I Read to Bunnies

Bunny is my pet name for my oldest, my daughter. It was not my intention to name her for a 1980s airhead hot-pants; she's not even a brunette. When my daughter was in the womb, I named her Ladybug, unaware the association was as common as a Lily. Bunny came about after a year of reading children's books to her; bunnies are frequent protagonists.