Goodnight Opus
Goodnight Opus (
children's book by Berkeley Breathed featuring Opus the Penguin
.
Plot
Goodnight Opus is a take-off of the popular 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.