Written & illustrated by Ann Droyd
Blue Rider Press, 2011
$14.95, All ages, 30 pages
It seems like only yesterday that Margaret Wise Brown's bunny fell asleep saying nighty night to the moon.
Now all sorts of things are glowing in his house -- iPads, WiFi, Nooks -- and the last thing Bunny wants to do is tell them goodnight.
In fact, no one in his family wants to wish their devices goodnight -- well, except Granny. She hasn't warmed up to electronics (at least not that she realizes).
It looks like Granny will just have say all of their goodnights for them -- and give those glowy things the sendoff she thinks they deserve.
In this hysterical parody of Brown's Goodnight Moon, David Milgram (aka "Ann Droyd") shows an old-fashioned gal getting her digital family to bed by hurling all of its distractions out the window.
The result is a bedtime gem for the digital age that underscores how hard it is to tear kids and parents away from gadgets -- made all the more funny juxtaposed with Brown's sweet 1947 poem.
The Fathers are Coming Home
I Love My Dad