In Goodnight Moon, Tatar uses objects that are familiar to kids to provide a “protected precinct” for the readers, and more importantly, through them Tatar endorses connectivity through repetition, doubling and mirroring, introduces the element of the vertiginous. The framed portraits of the cow and three bears serve to introduce fantasy into ordinary life by taking the readers into the exterior space and back to the interior space. Tatar described a lot of paired objects. For example, socks are symmetrical, mittens are complementary and there are even objects embedded into other objects such as the book within the book. By doing this she to create both serene and vertiginous moments. She also emphasized the connection between mother and children
