Note: Many of these books, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, exist in both in board book and hardcover versions. ( Evil parent advice: If you inscribe your copy of Goodnight Moon or The Runaway Bunny with a personal message for the baby, it makes it impossible for the parent to return the copy you gave them, thus ensuring that they’ll keep your gift and take back the 12 other copies they received. Hopefully, these suggestions might help parents branch out a bit from the cozy charms of Margaret Wise Brown or, at the very least, give you some alternate ideas for baby shower gifts. So, since Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny are the ultimate no-brainers when it comes to picking books for your child, I thought I’d offer up five alternative selections for great board books that any kid should enjoy. I’m not saying they’re bad parents or anything, but, just FYI, there’s a 70% chance that their marriage and new baby is a cover for a CIA training facility or a DEA deep cover operation. If you know a parent who doesn’t have a copy of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny… something’s weird there. We received multiple copies of each when our daughter was born, and both have become baby shower gift staples. However, as I alluded to earlier, they are also probably the two most popular books in the world to give to new parents. And Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny are the world’s most popular illustrated zen mantras for children. Reading board books to the very young is a meditative experience, which, I’ll admit, I miss now that my daughter is older. As you read Margaret Wise Brown’s verses aloud, you can watch your child get sucked into the cadence of the words and the details of the illustrations and just see this sense of confident calm spread across their faces. They have this amazing rhythm to their text, which is somehow both calming and stimulating. On the contrary, Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny are such ubiquitous baby reads because they’re really damn good.
This is not to say that either of these are bad books. 70% of the universe's missing dark matter is made up of copies of "Goodnight Moon"
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