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| Book cover for "Good Night Sharks" |
My daughter is really into books. She's making me read books to her all the time. So I want to write some blog posts about the ones I think are good. Here's my review of "Good Night Sharks" by Adam Gamble and Mark Jasper.
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Overview
This is a board book for toddlers. Each page has some species of shark, and 1 fact about the shark. (Or, some pages have shark-adjacent things, like an aquarium.) For example: "Good evening, mighty bull shark. You can swim in salt water or fresh water."
I like this because it's scientifically accurate, and doesn't try to make it into a cutesy little story. We just learn facts about a bunch of species of sharks. I guess that's different from most board books, but my little toddler likes it, so it's great. Okay honestly most of the language goes over her head, but she is so here for the pictures.
Did you guys know the Greenland shark can live for 400 years? I learned that from this book.
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My daughter's opinions
She likes to point at various things in the book and offer commentary on them. Okay, but it's toddler commentary, like pointing at a fish and saying "babum babum" because I told her that fish say "blub" and she is attempting to say "blub." Or she points at a crab and then makes little pinching motions with her fingers.
She is very smart and I love her.
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There is a whole "Good Night" series
It turns out these authors have a whole entire series called "Good Night Our World", with books about saying good night to every thing or place that you can imagine. I haven't read any of the other books in this series, but if you have a little kid who is very interested in one specific thing, maybe you could find a book in this series about that. A lot of the books are about places, actually- "Good Night Florida", "Good Night California", "Good Night New York City"- which could be fun for a kid to read if they've traveled to these places.
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Related:
"Bizzy Bear" (these books are great for babies)
"Priddy Explorers: Dinosaurs" (good dinosaur book for babies)
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