While rereading and rereading one of my firstborn’s favorite books before bed, I noticed a pattern common to many children’s books: the recurring incidental character.
By golly, Wil--you're right!! What a tragic story indeed as I take a closer look and HAVE to agree with you about it being the bunny's birthday and waiting for a call from his dad... I've read this book probably close to as many times as you have, also to my first-born.
Good Night Moon has always reminded me of my little sister, who at night would delay going to bed by coming out to tell us one at a time, I love you Mom. I love you Dad. I love you Maegan. Then it was how much she loved us. I love you infinity plus infinity more, etc. and on and on until I developed a "code" response to signal she could climb into bed with me.
Side note: My favorite incidental characters are the spider, mouse, and grasshopper from Mercer Mayer's "Little Critter" books.
Hard agree on the Little Critter recurring characters. That's probably the first series where I noticed this device. Also, in Elephant & Piggie the Pigeon of course always pops up on the back cover.
Classics of the genre by Mo Willems. They borrow a lot from the Frog and Toad series. We literally have 500+ children's books so feel free to ask for recs anytime!
By golly, Wil--you're right!! What a tragic story indeed as I take a closer look and HAVE to agree with you about it being the bunny's birthday and waiting for a call from his dad... I've read this book probably close to as many times as you have, also to my first-born.
Good Night Moon has always reminded me of my little sister, who at night would delay going to bed by coming out to tell us one at a time, I love you Mom. I love you Dad. I love you Maegan. Then it was how much she loved us. I love you infinity plus infinity more, etc. and on and on until I developed a "code" response to signal she could climb into bed with me.
Side note: My favorite incidental characters are the spider, mouse, and grasshopper from Mercer Mayer's "Little Critter" books.
What a fun read. :) Looking forward to more.
Hard agree on the Little Critter recurring characters. That's probably the first series where I noticed this device. Also, in Elephant & Piggie the Pigeon of course always pops up on the back cover.
I have not read Elephant & Piggie the Pigeon...
Classics of the genre by Mo Willems. They borrow a lot from the Frog and Toad series. We literally have 500+ children's books so feel free to ask for recs anytime!