cover image Good Night!

Good Night!

Benoit Marchon, illus. by Soledad Bravi. HMH Books, $7.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-547-89314-3

First published in France, this dead simple and utterly charming board book suggests nearly 20 terms of endearment to use at bedtime. A die-cut oval allows a smiling cartoon face to shine through the entire book, becoming the centerpiece of different objects and creatures. “Good night, my jewel. Good night, my shrimp. Good night, my sunshine,” writes Marchon, as the correlating three spreads recast the face as the gemstone in a ring, the head of a naïf pink crustacean, and the center of a beaming yellow sun. This duo offers a similarly enticing ode to mealtime in Spoonful! available simultaneously. Up to age 3. (Jan.)