FICTION

Goodnight, Angels

by Melody CARLSON
978-0-31071-687-7.
COPY ISBN
PreS-K—Carlson's Christian-themed addition to this well-worn genre is filled with goodnight rhymes in an awkward rhythm addressed to the people and objects in a young child's daily life, ending with a prayer of thanks. Allsopp's watercolors are sweet, rather lifeless renderings that depict the action on each page. Strictly additional.—Lisa Egly Lehmuller, St. Patrick's Catholic School, Charlotte, NC
As evening falls, a boy says goodnight to everything that was part of his day ("Goodnight, bunny slippers, snuggling 'neath my bed. / Goodnight, Mister Teddy. You're a sleepyhead"). His last goodnights are for "Father God" and "the angels...watching over me." The illustrations, while warm-hearted, are as vanilla as they come, and the text's rhymes don't always scan.
Reviewed by Lisa Egly Lehmuller , Dec 01, 2011

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