Goodnight Opus
1993 book by Berkeley Breathed
978-0-316-10853-9 
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Goodnight Opus (ISBN 978-0-316-10853-9) is a 1993 children's book by Berkeley Breathed featuring Opus the Penguin.
Plot
Goodnight Opus is a take-off of the popular Goodnight Moon children's book; this book actually begins with Opus being read Goodnight Moon by a maternal nanny figure while he sits in bed in his pink pajamas. After the nanny falls asleep while reading, Opus goes on his own journey to say goodnight to all sorts of fanciful beings and animals. The entire journey is an ode to imagination and to going beyond the last pages of a book ("departed the text"). Because the book encourages readers to think radically, it has "been banned in seventeen countries with early bedtimes", according to Breathed's website.[1]
The book ultimately served as a foreshadowing of Opus's fate; in the character's final story-arc in the Opus comic strip, he is encouraged by the ghost of Elvis and Breathed himself to choose someplace where he can spend eternity in peace. The final strip finds that Opus has chosen to spend eternity sleeping in the bed on the final page of Goodnight Moon.
References
- ^ "The Official Berkeley Breathed Website". Archived from the original on 2008-01-01. Retrieved 2007-12-03.
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Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County series
- The Academia Waltz
- Bloom County
- Outland
- Opus
- A Wish for Wings that Work
- The Last Basselope
- Goodnight Opus
- Loose Tails
- Toons for Our Times
- Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things
- Bloom County Babylon
- Billy and the Boingers Bootleg
- Tales Too Ticklish to Tell
- The Night of the Mary Kay Commandos
- Bloom County: The Complete Library
- Bill the Cat
- Michael Binkley
- Milo Bloom
- Cutter John
- Steve Dallas
- Lola Granola
- Bobbi Harlow
- Hodge-Podge
- Oliver Wendell Jones
- Opus the Penguin
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