What We Found in the Sofa is now a required college textbook, at least for the fall 2016 semester - or until somebody comes to their senses - if you happen to be a Library Science student taking the Lit and Resources: Children course (LIS 403 LEA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana. There are 55 other books on the required list, including The Cat in the Hat and Where the Wild Things Are, which, like Sofa, don’t have SparkNotes, so the course will not be a pushover.

And while I would never presume to judge any of the other books on the list, I have to say that Goodnight Moon has always put me to sleep.