Goodnight Moon Room

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Title: Goodnight Moon Room
Genre: Paper Engineered book 
Author: Clement Hurd 
Major Awards: None
Age group:  3 - 5 Years old 
Summary: 
This book is a fun pop-up book that allows kids to discover different parts of the story by pulling on
different tabs and flipping up flaps. It is a story about a young child's room and different aspects within it.
At the end of the book the child says goodnight to his room and then goodnight to the moon. 
I would use this book in my classroom if I were to teach younger children. It has an immense amount of
rhyming words which I feel would be great for young children to help them learn about them. It also
would be fun for young children to explore and play with as they read the book which I feel they would
really enjoy. 
I feel as if this book would be great for students in pre-k through kindergarten. It is filled with rhyming
words which is perfect for students in these grades because they are learning about them. Also, it has fun
pop-ups and tabs that they can explore with to keep them interested and enhance their want to read. 

If I were to use this book in my classroom I would read it out loud to my class while they sat on the carpet.
I would then ask them if they noticed anything about the book (rhyming words) and what words they
noticed. Then, I would read the book again out loud and have them point out all the rhyming words as we
go. After that I would have them go to their seats and create a paper with all of the rhyming words and
pictures of them.

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