Depending on what type of reader you are, Goodnight Gorilla is either awesome, or it sucks. If you just want to sit down and read the words out loud then you're screwed, because there are very very few words in the book. Just the zoo keeper saying goodnight to everyone and heading off to bed. The storytelling in the book is what's happening outside the words. The animals escaping and following the zoo keeper home and crawling into bed with him and his wife without them noticing. You get to point out the action in the pictures and ask your kids if they see what's happening and if they can guess what's going to happen next. Once they catch on, it never fails to entertain them that they know what's coming and what that zany gorilla is going to pull off at the end. The book is always the same, but because you and your kids provide nearly all of the narration to the story, it's also always just a bit different. It's fun and engaging in ways that lots of other books aren't. This is one of my top 10 board books for little kids. I'm going to try and work through my favorites over the next few months and then I'll move on to books for older kids. When I get to them I'll be in less of a hurry, but we're in the closing days of board books in our house. I'm trying to get the good ones sorted before they all go away.
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