Hello, Moon

This perfect bedtime read-aloud describes that magical time, just as we’re drifting off to sleep, when the moon shines brightly and life emerges from the forest. Now a board book!

Hello moon,
Goodbye sun.
Night is near,
Day is done.

When the sun goes down and most of us are getting ready for bed, the nighttime animals of the forest all wake up to the light of the moon. It calls to them, from the slyest fox to the tiniest mouse, who feasts on leaves and fruit and scurries beneath the brush.

Gentle rhyming text is illustrated with soft and dreamy artwork in this perfect bedtime book in the tradition of Goodnight Moon, now in board book form for the littlest listeners. For more bedtime rhymes, don’t miss the companion book Hello, Sun, which chronicles the other side of the daily cycle. 

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Author Biography

Julie Downing has illustrated over forty-five picture books including Cubs in the Tub: The True Story of the Bronx Zoo’s First Woman Zookeeper by Candace Fleming, The Fire Keeper’s Son, Tessa Takes Wing and First Mothers. She has won many awards including a Parents Choice Award, the New York Public Library’s Best Books Award, APAAL Best Illustrated Book and the Irma Black Silver Medal. Her work has been featured in the SCBWI Original Art Show.
Julie teaches illustration to undergraduate and graduate students at the Academy of Art University. She lives in San Francisco.