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A Child's GOOD Night Book From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Child's Good Night Book is a 23-pages children's picture Book Written By Margaret Wise Brown and Pictures by Jean Charlot is a 1943 picture book published by  William R. Scott new edited in 1992 A CHILD'S GOOD Night was a Caldecott Medal Honor Book for 1944.The Author Margaret Wise Brown completed more than one hundred picture books and Many of them books like A Child's Good Night Book have been translated into several languages for Young Readers.

Contents [hide] 1 Description 2 Synopsis 3.Writer 4.Illustrator 5.Awards 6.References

Description[edit] The Story, Written By Margaret Wise Brown,A Child's Good Night Book is a hard back copy with a baby boy laying on a half of moon while sleeping it's told in present tense from (a first-person narrative) Books for the ''read aloud times for the youngest children preface to morning and Afternoon rest periods and for just before bed its a cool color picture that describe the story line on each page,  a different animal sleeping on each page the last page has a good night pray the  author has words that are soothing and relaxing as each pages is a different feeling at end of each page say sleepy, after each page hear sleepy through the entire book, The illustration by jean Charlot design good cooling picture to sooth the younger reader eye.Its Excellent example of multiple values like the rhythmic words,its a picture of all the world going to sleep as night falls in itself it is a sleep-making text and by covering the child's whole horizon coveys the idea of all things have to quieting down and go to sleep.

Synopsis[edit] The cover of the book have a baby boy in his blue color Pajamas sleeping on a half of moon Night is coming, its time for bed time everything and everyone is getting ready for bed, The sun went away cause night is coming the sun has to rest and night (dark) comes out from resting the birds in tree stop eating and singing cause they have to rest and sleep for the next day( The art shows the sun going down and dark (night) is rising up) the house lights are turn off an the birds are flying to their nests.The birds tuck away their wings and went to sleep.Each pages describe each animal close their and and went to sleep the fish, sheep huddle together in a great warm blanket and they stop baaa-ing and the ramps stop ramming and went to sleep.all the wild thing close their eyes everything in the house stop moving and quiet down the Mommy kangaroos warm her baby's and they close their eyes then the cats stop purring around the house and blink their eyes to sleep.The rabbits bright red eyes was falling low and then they went to bed the children stop thinking and talking and said their prays, cover up sleepy children went to sleep

Writer Margaret Wise Brown was born Green point, Brooklyn NY on May 23,1910 and later died November 13,1952 (age 42) she was a writer, editor wrote children literature, her notable workers was Good Night Moon, The runaway Bunny and the color kittens, In 1923 she attended boarding school in Switzerland she went to hollies college in Roanoke, Virginia she graduate with her B.A in English. In 1932 Brown work as a teacher and also she loved Art so she started studying Art while working, In 1952 she met her future partner Pebble Rockefeller Jr. before they could of even get married she later died unexpectedly due to blood clot that travel to her heart in France. While after her death Margaret had author over hundred books.

Illustrator Charlot, jeans 1898-1979 Prainter, Writer, Muralist, Lithographer and illustrator of books for both children and adults he was born in pairs but live in Mexico in 1920s where he mostly studiedan dwas active in the mural movement he also worked as a artist in archaeological excavations of the Yucatan then in 1929 he moved to the united states where he illustrated many  picture books that include  Margaret wise brown  A Child's Good Night Book (1942), A child's Good morning Book (1952) and sneakers: seven stories about a Cat (1955)over the years he had he showed the influence of his mural painting, he was an established artist. he brought a sense of design, layout and aesthetic sensibility to the American picture book.

Awards ALA Caldecott Honor-1944

ALA NewberyMedal-1953

References

"Charlot,Jean." Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature.Eds.BerniceE.Cullinan et al.London: Continuum,2005.Credo Reference.Web.18 May 2015

Cullinan et al.(EDs),continum encyclopedia of children's literature London,United Kingdom:Continum.Retrieved from http://rpa.laguardia.edu