Shannon 's Reviews > Good Night, Gorilla
Good Night, Gorilla
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A friend at work recommended some picture books to me recently; she has a background in speech pathology and gets these books for her own nieces and nephews and the kids of friends, and they've loved them. Most of them I hadn't hear of - I'm not sure about this one, sometimes it seems really familiar to me and other times I don't think I know it at all.
It's told mostly in pictures, the text consisting of, largely, the zookeeper saying good night to the various animals. It's very cute - the gorilla has stolen his keys and follows him through the zoo, and after he's said good night the gorilla opens their cages and they all follow him home to his bedroom. It takes the zookeeper's wife to lead them all back.
You have to overlook the small zoo cages for these animals or you might find it rather hard to look at - I think children can enjoy the story and the animals' antics regardless, but I wouldn't assume they won't notice and aren't cheering for the animals' escape as much as the cute humour in it.
It's told mostly in pictures, the text consisting of, largely, the zookeeper saying good night to the various animals. It's very cute - the gorilla has stolen his keys and follows him through the zoo, and after he's said good night the gorilla opens their cages and they all follow him home to his bedroom. It takes the zookeeper's wife to lead them all back.
You have to overlook the small zoo cages for these animals or you might find it rather hard to look at - I think children can enjoy the story and the animals' antics regardless, but I wouldn't assume they won't notice and aren't cheering for the animals' escape as much as the cute humour in it.
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Started Reading
June 8, 2011
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June 8, 2011
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2011
June 8, 2011
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picture-book
June 8, 2011
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