"Goodnight Keith Moon"

Ann Arbor authors Bruce Worden and Clare Cross got cited as baby book trend-makers, with their decidedly-for-adults spoof of Margaret Wise Brown's kiddie classic, Goodnight Moon. The big question now is whether Goodnight Keith Moon will be able to land someone as prominent as Samuel L. Jackson for the audiobook version. The Pulp Fiction star did narration honors for the recently released Go the Fuck to Sleep.

Excerpt:

"Now comes the backlash – in the form of children's bedtime books designed for adults. Goodnight Keith Moon by Bruce Worden and Clare Cross published in the UK this week, is already a cult hit in the US. "Morbidly funny," according to the New Yorker, it's a spoof of the children's classic Goodnight Moon, told through the eyes of the Who's late drummer. A trashed hotel room replaces the sleepy child's bedroom. Instead of the bowl of mush featured in the original, there are pills everywhere: "And some whiskey and fish and some more in a dish, And the ghost of Cass Elliott whispering shhh.""

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