Goodnight Gorilla Reviews

Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathman, 1994, by G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

Goodnight Gorilla is a fun board book that can be found for about $8. Story and illustration are both done by Peggy Rothman.

To summarize the book, a zookeeper is walking through his zoo saying goodnight to all the animals but what he doesn’t know is that the gorilla has taken his keys and is letting the animals out behind his back. The animals follow him home and settle down to go to sleep in his house until they all say goodnight, which blows their cover to the zookeepers wife. She then takes the animals back to the...

My daughter and I read this book almost every night at bedtime.  She loves to say goodnight to the animals.  She is 19 months old and likes to tell me which animal is which.  It is very light reading and gets her ready for bed too.