About
The Good Night Books Series of board books has been designed and developed since 2005 to celebrate special places and themes in a way that young children, ages 0-5, can easily relate to and enjoy with their families. All the books are written and illustrated with a simplicity that captures the “essence” of each subject and place.
Every book is printed in bright colors on high-quality board to endure the attention of young children. All have six-inch by six-inch pages, making for large 12 x 6 open page spreads.
Each title takes its readers through the passage of a day (“good morning,” “good afternoon,” “good evening,” and “good night”). And most titles, if set in a place with seasonality, also include the seasons of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter). Children are further introduced to the practice of using polite salutations and greetings, all while being lulled to a good night’s sleep.
The series is, in part, inspired by Walt Whitman’s poems, such as the classic book Leaves of Grass and the famous poem “Song of Myself” in which the poet catalogs item after item, in a process whereby the mere naming of each item draws attention to it and thus imbues it with a sense of import. The Good Night Our World Series tries to recognize and celebrate the world in a Whitmanesque spirit.
Here we have interspersed some pages from our series with Walt Whitman’s words:
Where the she-whale swims with her calf and never forsakes it,
Where herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near,
Where the humming-bird shimmers, where the neck of the long-lived swan is curving and winding,
Where the laughing-gull scoots by the shore, where she laughs her near-human laugh,
Adam Gamble
Adam Gamble is the creator of the Good Night Books series and the founder of Good Night Books, LLC. He is the author or coauthor of all the books in the series, most with Mark Jasper. He was the founder of On Cape Publications, Inc. in 1996, where he edited, designed, and produced dozens of books, mostly about Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He is the author of In the Footsteps of Thoreau (1996) and coauthor of A Public Betrayed (with Takesato Watanabe, 2004) and of The Power of Positive Fishing (with Michael Tougias, 2023). Adam has three children and lives with his family on Cape Cod, including his youngest son, toddler Nate Gamble, who keeps Adam on his toes and up-to-date with children’s publishing. Adam currently serves as president of Good Night Books.
Mark Jasper
Mark Jasper initiated his professional journey by authoring spectral tales, with his first books books entitled Haunted Inns of New England and Haunted Cape Cod and the Islands. Subsequently, he contributed to the creation of two Halloween-themed television specials for HGTV and the Travel Channel, titled “Ghostly Homes of Cape Cod” and “Haunted New England.” In 2007, Mark became part of the Good Night Books team, where he has since co-authored more than 200 books, a number of which have achieved best-seller status on Amazon.com within their respective genres. His role is that of publisher at Good Night Books.
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