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Editorial Reviews
Review
“The amiable cartoon characters, vibrant palette, and affectionate tone of the author’s art recall Thatcher Hurd’s cheerful illustrations. Delightful.”--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"A clever, comforting bedtime story." --School Library Journal, starred review
"Jaunty four-color artwork carries the story and offers more with every look." --Booklist
About the Author
"In the summer we lolled in plastic wading pools guzzling Kool-Aid. In the winter we sculpted giant snow animals. It was a good life."
Ms. Rathmann graduated from Mounds View High School in New Brighton, Minnesota, then attended colleges everywhere, changing her major repeatedly. She eventually earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Minnesota.
"I wanted to teach sign language to gorillas, but after taking a class in signing, I realized what I'd rather do was draw pictures of gorillas."
Ms. Rathmann studied commercial art at the American Academy in Chicago, fine art at the Atelier Lack in Minneapolis, and children's-book writing and illustration at the Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles.
"I spent the first three weeks of my writing class at Otis Parsons filching characters from my classmates' stories. Finally, the teacher convinced me that even a beginning writer can create an original character if the character is driven by the writer's most secret weirdness. Eureka! A little girl with a passion for plagiarism! I didn't want anyone to know it was me, so I made the character look like my sister."
The resulting book, Ruby the Copycat, earned Ms. Rathmann the "Most Promising New Author" distinction in Publishers Weekly's 1991 annual Cuffie Awards. In 1992 she illustrated Bootsie Barker Bites for Barbara Bottner, her teacher at Otis Parsons.
A homework assignment produced an almost wordless story, Good Night, Gorilla, inspired by a childhood memory.
"When I was little, the highlight of the summer was running barefoot through the grass, in the dark, screaming. We played kick-the-can, and three-times-around-the-house, and sometimes we just stood staring into other people's picture windows, wondering what it would be like to go home to someone else's house."
That story, however, was only nineteen pages long, and everyone agreed that the ending was a dud. Two years and ten endings later, Good Night, Gorilla was published and recognized as an ALA Notable Children's Book for 1994.
The recipient of the 1996 Caldecott Medal, Officer Buckle and Gloria, is the story of a school safety officer upstaged by his canine partner.
"We have a videotape of my mother chatting in the dining room while, unnoticed by her or the cameraman, the dog is licking every poached egg on the buffet. The next scene shows the whole family at the breakfast table, complimenting my mother on the delicious poached eggs. The dog, of course, is pretending not to know what a poached egg is. The first time we watched that tape we were so shocked, we couldn't stop laughing. I suspect that videotape had a big influence on my choice of subject matter."
Ms. Rathmann lives and works in San Francisco, in an apartment she shares with her husband, John Wick, and a very funny bunch of ants.
copyright © 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite kids book
Favorite book for little ones. Easy to make own sounds of animals and fun to read with kids
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, detailed pictures in a bedtime story
My kids loved looking at the engaging pictures in this book when they were little. I always enjoyed reading it to them before bedtime, which is saying something after four kids. Such a cute, sweetly mischievous story.Now I buy it for baby showers, so new moms can read and snuggle with their little ones for years to come.
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic
Can you guess what book our toddler wants to read before bedtime night after night? Yup, it's this one, without fail. The little details in the art, the cheeky story, the fun scenes with the lights off, the spare dialog, the sweetness, the yawns, the scurrying under the blanket... It's a classic! I particularly like the nods to another classic goodnight book, Goodnight Moon (the mouse, the balloon, the "kitten", the clock, the socks, the moon...).Do not hesitate!
5.0 out of 5 stars Your child will love this book
Favorite children's book! The story is so cute and your child will love looking for the hidden secrets (balloon floating away, mouse with a banana, etc). The board book is sturdy and has held up to dozens of storytimes with my child. I give this as a baby shower gift every time.
5.0 out of 5 stars So cute
Such a great book easy to read . Read to my son who loved it and wanted a copy to read to his new baby!
5.0 out of 5 stars Great good night book.
This fun book uses very limited words to allow the child the chance to tell what is happening in each picture.
5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Delight
A childhood classic! Peggy Rathman's magnum opus, which is a must for every library. We started reading this to my daughter, who is now five, when she was around 10 months old, and it is still her all time favorite book. One of her first words was "Rilla, Rilla," which is what she called it, and how she asked for this book by name, daily. This is a "storyteller's" book, mostly images, which allows both the reader and the listener to improvisationally enter into the hilarious imaginary, nocturnal world of a small zoo as its caretaker shuts it down for the night, trailed by a fun-loving, trickster gorilla who not only (spoiler alert) tiptoes behind the zookeeper/night watchman as he first locks the gates and then sneakily unlocks each one and frees the rest of the animals, but then follows the caretaker, animals in tow, to his home, where someone...is in for a surprise! From the time she was a baby until now at age 5, my daughter still bursts into gleeful fits of laughter in the book's "surprise" moment, and in fact--the look on the character's face was one of the very first imitations of a facial expression she ever did, and her very first attempt at humor--we owe to this book! A milestone. Because of that, this book is so beloved in our house, it's like a family member or a longtime friend: always welcome, always funny, always a delight--and never grows old. "Rilla Rilla" for life!
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for young children
As advertised, clean, very good condition. Glad I made this purchase.
Great book to improve story telling and thinking ability
It's a really good book for toddlers to learn pictorial visualization. It helps kids to think and speak looking at a scene. This book doesn't have any script other than 'Good night'.
Molto carino.
Versione inglese, con un'unica frase per pagine "goodnight...." e altre pagine senza parole.Librino formato medio, rettangolare, semplice e molto simpatico, con finale a sorpresa.
Good deal
I love this book. Though I don't know how to ready this yet to my baby since it has little words written but it is very funny book. You just have to make your own story for this
Não gostei
A história é been simples.Ideal para crianças- 2 anos.
buenas noches gorila.
El libro está bien, no viene letra escrita, solamente los dibujos y la palabra de buenas noches que dice el cuidador. yo me le compre en tapa blanda y es un tamaño correcto.
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Delivery fee of AED 20. Free for orders above AED 200.
Imported From: United States
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Description:
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The amiable cartoon characters, vibrant palette, and affectionate tone of the author’s art recall Thatcher Hurd’s cheerful illustrations. Delightful.”--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"A clever, comforting bedtime story." --School Library Journal, starred review
"Jaunty four-color artwork carries the story and offers more with every look." --Booklist
About the Author
"In the summer we lolled in plastic wading pools guzzling Kool-Aid. In the winter we sculpted giant snow animals. It was a good life."
Ms. Rathmann graduated from Mounds View High School in New Brighton, Minnesota, then attended colleges everywhere, changing her major repeatedly. She eventually earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Minnesota.
"I wanted to teach sign language to gorillas, but after taking a class in signing, I realized what I'd rather do was draw pictures of gorillas."
Ms. Rathmann studied commercial art at the American Academy in Chicago, fine art at the Atelier Lack in Minneapolis, and children's-book writing and illustration at the Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles.
"I spent the first three weeks of my writing class at Otis Parsons filching characters from my classmates' stories. Finally, the teacher convinced me that even a beginning writer can create an original character if the character is driven by the writer's most secret weirdness. Eureka! A little girl with a passion for plagiarism! I didn't want anyone to know it was me, so I made the character look like my sister."
The resulting book, Ruby the Copycat, earned Ms. Rathmann the "Most Promising New Author" distinction in Publishers Weekly's 1991 annual Cuffie Awards. In 1992 she illustrated Bootsie Barker Bites for Barbara Bottner, her teacher at Otis Parsons.
A homework assignment produced an almost wordless story, Good Night, Gorilla, inspired by a childhood memory.
"When I was little, the highlight of the summer was running barefoot through the grass, in the dark, screaming. We played kick-the-can, and three-times-around-the-house, and sometimes we just stood staring into other people's picture windows, wondering what it would be like to go home to someone else's house."
That story, however, was only nineteen pages long, and everyone agreed that the ending was a dud. Two years and ten endings later, Good Night, Gorilla was published and recognized as an ALA Notable Children's Book for 1994.
The recipient of the 1996 Caldecott Medal, Officer Buckle and Gloria, is the story of a school safety officer upstaged by his canine partner.
"We have a videotape of my mother chatting in the dining room while, unnoticed by her or the cameraman, the dog is licking every poached egg on the buffet. The next scene shows the whole family at the breakfast table, complimenting my mother on the delicious poached eggs. The dog, of course, is pretending not to know what a poached egg is. The first time we watched that tape we were so shocked, we couldn't stop laughing. I suspect that videotape had a big influence on my choice of subject matter."
Ms. Rathmann lives and works in San Francisco, in an apartment she shares with her husband, John Wick, and a very funny bunch of ants.
copyright © 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite kids book
Favorite book for little ones. Easy to make own sounds of animals and fun to read with kids
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, detailed pictures in a bedtime story
My kids loved looking at the engaging pictures in this book when they were little. I always enjoyed reading it to them before bedtime, which is saying something after four kids. Such a cute, sweetly mischievous story.Now I buy it for baby showers, so new moms can read and snuggle with their little ones for years to come.
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic
Can you guess what book our toddler wants to read before bedtime night after night? Yup, it's this one, without fail. The little details in the art, the cheeky story, the fun scenes with the lights off, the spare dialog, the sweetness, the yawns, the scurrying under the blanket... It's a classic! I particularly like the nods to another classic goodnight book, Goodnight Moon (the mouse, the balloon, the "kitten", the clock, the socks, the moon...).Do not hesitate!
5.0 out of 5 stars Your child will love this book
Favorite children's book! The story is so cute and your child will love looking for the hidden secrets (balloon floating away, mouse with a banana, etc). The board book is sturdy and has held up to dozens of storytimes with my child. I give this as a baby shower gift every time.
5.0 out of 5 stars So cute
Such a great book easy to read . Read to my son who loved it and wanted a copy to read to his new baby!
5.0 out of 5 stars Great good night book.
This fun book uses very limited words to allow the child the chance to tell what is happening in each picture.
5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Delight
A childhood classic! Peggy Rathman's magnum opus, which is a must for every library. We started reading this to my daughter, who is now five, when she was around 10 months old, and it is still her all time favorite book. One of her first words was "Rilla, Rilla," which is what she called it, and how she asked for this book by name, daily. This is a "storyteller's" book, mostly images, which allows both the reader and the listener to improvisationally enter into the hilarious imaginary, nocturnal world of a small zoo as its caretaker shuts it down for the night, trailed by a fun-loving, trickster gorilla who not only (spoiler alert) tiptoes behind the zookeeper/night watchman as he first locks the gates and then sneakily unlocks each one and frees the rest of the animals, but then follows the caretaker, animals in tow, to his home, where someone...is in for a surprise! From the time she was a baby until now at age 5, my daughter still bursts into gleeful fits of laughter in the book's "surprise" moment, and in fact--the look on the character's face was one of the very first imitations of a facial expression she ever did, and her very first attempt at humor--we owe to this book! A milestone. Because of that, this book is so beloved in our house, it's like a family member or a longtime friend: always welcome, always funny, always a delight--and never grows old. "Rilla Rilla" for life!
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for young children
As advertised, clean, very good condition. Glad I made this purchase.
Great book to improve story telling and thinking ability
It's a really good book for toddlers to learn pictorial visualization. It helps kids to think and speak looking at a scene. This book doesn't have any script other than 'Good night'.
Molto carino.
Versione inglese, con un'unica frase per pagine "goodnight...." e altre pagine senza parole.Librino formato medio, rettangolare, semplice e molto simpatico, con finale a sorpresa.
Good deal
I love this book. Though I don't know how to ready this yet to my baby since it has little words written but it is very funny book. You just have to make your own story for this
Não gostei
A história é been simples.Ideal para crianças- 2 anos.
buenas noches gorila.
El libro está bien, no viene letra escrita, solamente los dibujos y la palabra de buenas noches que dice el cuidador. yo me le compre en tapa blanda y es un tamaño correcto.
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