2019 / Library book / 48 pages / USA/Australia
**
Unsatisfyingly random, anticlimactic mess.
2015 / Library book / 32 pages / UK
***
Balances the fun of interfering with nature and the intellectual fulfilment of researching etymology.
1992 / Ebook / 32 pages / Switzerland
*
Lacking the pretty sparkles in ebook form, it's just a horrible fable of conformity for kids making their first fickle friendships. She likes fishies though, so we'll probably have to read it again.
Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd, Goodnight Moon
****
My belated impression of this bedtime classic was admiration of its dreamy twilight atmosphere and slight sinister edge (who is "nobody?"). She didn't really take to it though, which is probably a relief in the long run.
1960 / Ebook / 64 pages / USA
***
This felt more like a first comic than a picture book. While I'm normally in favour of creeping kids out, it's refreshingly free from gritty realism as our plucky newborn topples invincibly from the tree and befriends its natural predators.
