Good Night Cape Cod is a take on the ever popular and ubiquitous Good Night Moon. We read Good Night Moon to Eva well before she was born. It was quick and she would kick when she heard me reading it. We have about 3 copies of it and take it everywhere. However we don’t read it to her that much anymore. We read her a nightly book called Time for Bed and I’ll talk about that one some other time.
Good Night Cape Cod is a book that starts with good morning and goes throughout the hole day on the Cape. There are many locations on the cape that are seen in this colorful little book. It is a board book so it is great for chewing. Eva enjoys that. It is also very colorful which many solid colors so there is a lot of contrast, images are fun and cartoony too. I imagine that as Eva gets older and can recognize the places that are mentioned in the book that she will really enjoy it much more.
Apparently there is a whole series of Good Night Books called the Good Night Our World series.
Read to Me Dad Ratings
Story – A cute little story of a day on Cape Cod similar to Good Night Moon.
Re-Read-ability – Excellent, we will read this to Eva as she learns more about the Cape so then she will be able to recognize the places in the book.
Illustrations – Good -The book is bright with many solid colors with high contrast. Recognizable Cape Cod landmarks are also very good.
Message – No message, pretty much a nice little book of places on the cape.
Plot – From morning to night on the Cape.
Characters – No characters but rather places on the Cape.
Does Eva Like It – Eva did like to chew the book a little but overall I think this is a book she will enjoy as she grows older.
Eric Carle is probably most well known for his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. But he has many other books as well and one of them is My Very First Book of Colors. Yesterday my Mom gave this book to Eva and I read it to her. Well, there isn’t much of a story it is a book that shows a color and then lets you match up the color with an illustration of something that is predominantly that color. The pages are split in the middle so that you can flip the color on the top and then flip the 2nd half of the page on the bottom to find the item of that same color.
This is an excellent book to use to start teaching your small child about colors because the illustrations are top rate and the book is interactive with the split pages. It is also a board book so Eva can munch on it a bit too and it will hold up for future kids.
This book is also part of a set called My Very First Library which includes the books My Very First Book of Colors, My Very First Book of Shapes, My Very First Book of Numbers, and My Very First Book of Words.
Read to Me Dad Ratings
Story – No story, just names of colors.
Re-Read-ability – Excellent, repetition is a wonderful thing for growing minds and we can read this to Eva over and over.
Illustrations – Excellent -The bright colorful and playful images created by Carle are excellent.
Message – No message, just a book of colors.
Plot – No plot, just a book of colors.
Characters – No Characters, again, a book of colors.
Does Eva Like It – Eva was slightly interested in the book but then again I think she wanted to chew on it.
