Good Night, Gorilla

from DayehSensei

In this practically wordless story, a mischievous gorilla sneaks into his zookeepers' house twice-- even after all the other zoo animals who tried to sneak in have been led back to their cages. The simplicity and simple message (of love and mischief) is communicated very clearly to young readers....

from jcofsky

When a zoo keeper decides to leave for the night and say good night to all the animals, it doesn't really go as planned. The gorilla unlocks his own cage followed by the cages of all the other animals. So, when the zoo keeper goes to say goodnight to his wife he gets a response back from many ani...

from nbmars

Yet another hilarious takeoff on "Goodnight, Moon." In this adorable board book, the zookeeper says goodnight to each of the animals, but the gorilla steals his keys, follows him around, and lets each animal out of its cage after the zookeeper says goodnight. They all follow the zookeeper home an...

from SugarPlumFairy

A hands-down favorite with each of my three kids! There is so much detail in this little book--we love matching the keys to the cages, looking for the ballon growing ever smaller on each cage, seeing which toy each animal has ("Hey! Babar!"), and especially Mrs. Zookeeper's big eyes. This book is...

from Daumari

Looking at other reviews... I'm not going to log every instance I read a book to the child, as that way lies diluting my GR books read (so many rereads?), just the first. Anyway, with few words there is plenty of room for interpretation and like any good picture book, tons of things to pull out...