Good Night Gorilla
by Peggy Rathman
Available in board book, paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook formats. (Amazon)
If you like books that have maybe a dozen words in them, Good Night Gorilla is the book for you. It's the story of a massive zoo jailbreak orchestrated by a sneaky gorilla mastermind, and the bumbling zookeeper who is completely oblivious to it. It all turns out right in the end, with, miraculously, no maimings or maulings by stampeding zoo animals.
H. likes this book a lot. There's lots of cute little details in the illustrations, and it's very simple and repetitive. It ends up on a reread loop quite often.
Alice In Wonderland
by Jennifer Adams and Alison Oliver
Available in board book and Kindle formats. (Amazon)
Alice In Wonderland is a BabyLit colors primer. Interestingly, the colors it uses deviates in quite a few places from what you might be familiar with from the Disney movie: the Cheshire Cat is orange instead of pink, the Mad Hatter's hat is brown, not green, and so on and so forth. Maybe to prevent copyright lawsuits? Beats me. In any case, it's pretty cute primer.
Match-up Analysis
If you'll forgive me the pun, Good Night Gorilla is the 500-pound gorilla in the room. It's a quick read, and it's got silly animals. Alice In Wonderland isn't a complete pushover, but it's not a book that H. keeps in regular rotation. I'm not saying its out of the question - stranger things have happened in this tournament - but its chances are slim.
Prediction
Good Night Gorilla takes the gold.
Results
As predicted, H. chose Good Night Gorilla
Up Next
Good Night Gorilla will take on the winner of Bubbles, Bubbles and Numbers Colors Shapes on April 16th.
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