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Title: A Child's Good Morning Book by Margaret Wise Brown, Jean Charlot ISBN: 0-06-024538-7 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: February, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Don't Buy! OKtext, Frightening and/or tricky illustrations
Comment: My 2 year old's library now exceeds 150 books of all shapes, sizes and styles, but I can safely say this is the one book I **won't** be adding to her book shelves. Although the concept is good (a book to read in the morning) and the text is also good, the illustrations are most certainly not appropriate for a child's book. Taken by themselves, they are interesting as "art", but their color and style don't fit with a children's book. My daughter can identify most farm and zoo animals known to man, but she was stumped by every picture in this book. The goats appeared to have lay drying in the desert for a few weeks before posing for the book (I am not joking, they do look dead), the bees look like butterflies, the horses look like statues from a modern artist, the birds look like airplanes, the color on the children's faces makes them look as though they were ill or the lighting is bad in the room.

Life is confusing enough for a young child without having to wake up to face a book that twists the colors and shapes of familiar objects to such an extent that they are no longer recognizable to the young mind.

As far as good morning reading is concerned, I've had good luck just reading "goodnight moon" from back to front, substituting the words "goodmorning sun". My daughter thinks this is funny. Other suggestions would be "activity" books such as those in the "Maisy" series, or funny books such as those in the "Sheep" series (Sheep in a Jeep, Sheep in a Shop, etc).

Rating: 4
Summary: A Gentle Wake-Up Book for Babies, Toddlers, and Parents
Comment: When our baby received books as gifts, 75% of them were bedtime oriented. I wanted to read to her in the mornings when she was most alert. The book shows how all the animals and plants wake up when the sun rises. The text is simple, but not boring. Though she is only a few months old, our baby responds well to the contrasting colors (mostly orangey-reds and greens). Because they are portrayed as sleeping huddled together, the bunnies and sheep are hard to discern, though. This book offers a brightly illustrated choice to parents and children who want to wake up to books.