Good Night Washington, DC

Good Night Our World

by Adam Gamble, Joe Veno (Illustrator)

Good Night Washington DC features the National Zoo, Library of Congress, the White House, National Mall, Washington Monument, Museum of National History, Air and Space Museum, Lincoln Memorial, and more. This charming and educational board book tours young readers around the magnificent city of Washington DC. Children will be lulled into a peaceful night's sleep after visiting the area's most treasured icons and famous landmarks.

This book is part of the bestselling Good Night Our World series, which includes hundreds of titles exploring iconic locations and exciting, child-friendly themes.

Many of North America's most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these board books designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for North America's natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area's attractions as rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books

20 pages, Board book

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Adam Gamble, is a writer, a photographer, and a publisher. He is the author of many books in the Good Night Books series, In the Footsteps of Thoreau, and A Public Betrayed. He lives in Sandwich, MA.

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 1 out of 5]

An ok book quickly highlighting some of DCs main characteristics. As an adoptive local, it’s a cute book to gift others, but maybe not a great story. I may feel differently once we read and visit the sites with our little one. Will have to come back and re-evaluate my rating.

[David H. · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's a "good night" book in the broad style of Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon, but the reading rhythm didn't seem right to me, and it's really just a book for and about tourists. This was pretty disappointing since I was just hoping for something "local" to read to my son.

[Bethe · Rating 3 out of 5]

2 young visitors start at the zoo to greet the animal babies in springtime then see the cherry blossoms and pass by other govt offices and museums (but not my favorite where I read the book - the American History museum) highlights of the city. Sometimes rhyming text, cartoonish illustrations. Fun souvenir book for the littles.

[Sorento62 · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is nice enough, but this is one of those books where I think the picture book/board book format and the level of the language and concepts in the story don't really match. That is, the concepts being discussed are probably a little too abstract for the board book set.

[M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a good read.

[Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun reminder of happy times in the capital!

[Elizabeth]

My little one has loved this book all through toddlerhood and has it mostly memorized now

[Robert · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didnt even rhyme. The night night AZ one does. Dissapointed

[Asho · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the second book in the Good Night Our World series that we have read, and I enjoyed it just as much as Good Night Texas. I think it's such a cute concept, just a gentle story describing some of the sites of a particular place in the context of a nice day.
I did think it was funny that the book ended, "Good night, visitors to our nation's capital," implying that nobody actually lives in DC (but we do!...sort of), and I would have liked to see a few more familiar landmarks. Overall, though, I enjoy reading this and think my son will really like it when he gets older and sees "his" city in a book. I'd like to get more of these.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bethany loves this one

[Kristen Kellick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Robert loves finding different objects in his books and pointing them out. This one has plenty of US flags, as well as trees and animals.

[adeservingporcupine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eh. Short, but I think these books are mostly sort of silly.