An excellent book
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The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed
I bought this book for my young son and we have read it so many times it has nearly been worn out. It is beautifully illustrated and is perfect for a bedtime story to entice a restless youngster to go to bed.
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The best bed-time book for babies. EVER.
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This book is delightful on so many levels that it is almost difficult to know where to start. Cooper's artwork is, as always, breathtaking. The imaginative pictures depict a landscape made up of all the things around which the baby's world revolves: the sleepy tiger that is in fact a pyjama case; the train crowded with all the sleeping toys and nursery rhyme characters. Cooper builds a world that is enchanting and delightful to parents and at the same time interesting to children. More importantly her use of subtle colours, and soft lines add a restful and dreamlike quality to these images that is in keeping with the notion of sleep and bedtime.
And all that is before you even get to the text! This is a wonderfully well-structured story. The text starts out full of energy and vigour as the baby 'Vroom-chuga-chug's' off into this make-believe world and then gradually the pace becomes slower and more restful and - in the best possible way - more soporific.
It is not hard to read this book, the text leads even the most awkward reader by the hand, making it's own patterns and rhythms almost magically dictating the speed and volume for the reader.
I bought my first copy many years ago when the older of my nine children were still quite young and the smaller ones hadn't yet made an appearance. My youngest (now two) won't go to bed without it and I have reached the point of being able to read it without even thinking about it.
We've are on our third copy of this book and it has been universally successful, in spite of gender, taste and personality differences. It is hard to imagine a child to whom this book wouldn't appeal.
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Essential sleep aid
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We've been reading this delightful book to our two-year-old son every single night for the past four months!
"No, baby car!", as he likes to call it, has some of the most enchanting illustrations in any children's book, and the story is pure, wind-down magic. He never gets sick of it (and so far, neither have we). The best bedtime book I've come across.
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Magical illustrations
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We bought this book for our daughter at Christmas and it has been read practically every night since! An absolutely beautiful book with superbly magical illustrations which will have you child joining in again and again with "I'm going to stay up ALL night"
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My favorite baby book
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I read this book with great delight with my older daughter and now am thrilled to read it to my baby daughter and nieces. Wonderful pictures, just so much fun, I truly love it!
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