Michelle Pearson
Hulstrom Options School
Adams 12 School District
Good Night Bush Book Cover
By chance are you familiar with the children’s book Good Night Moon by by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd? Many of you are as it celebrated it’s 60th Anniversary in 2005. The original story is a bed time story and is meant for small children.
Just in time for the election, two new authors have written a parody on the traditional story entitled Good Night Bush criticizing the Republican Party and the Bush Administration. filled with references of the administration and policies over the last eight years, the book was drawing immense attention from convention-goers on 16th Street Mall yesterday, and was a hot item to purchase as the authors were available to sign the book. The book is also available online, and in Tattered Cover. It is a creative look at politics which definately was a hit with the Democrats in town this week. I have included a passage from the book by Erich Origen and Gan Golan so you can get a taste of the parody.
Something to Think About:
How did the authors take the events during the Bush Administration and highlight them in this book?
What do the references in the selection below tell us about the author’s point of view at this time?
” In the situation Room
There was a toy world
And a flight costume
And a picture of–
A refinery plume
And there were war profiteers giving three cheers,
A Nation great
A Church and State
A pair of towers
And a balance of powers
A Grand Old Party to war in a rush
And a quiet Dick Cheny whispering “hush.”
