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Baby Einstein: Sweet Dreams, Mimi

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Both my daughters have grown with the Baby Einstein products and we love just about everything they make. This book is sweet and wonderful and great at bedtime. My daughters love to see MiMi sleeping on the bottom of the page and they've even learned to say MiMi. There are a ton of things for them to point to and new words to be discovered. A nice addition to your collection of baby books.

We've looked at many of the Baby Einstein books over the years and I think this is my favorite. It's a bedtime book and it's actually nicely done and Ms. Julie is getting very good at selecting the imagery and words used in her poems.

What you find in "Sweet Dreams" is a combination of drawings and pictures. The pictures are of the images conjured by the poetic words; and the drawings are of Mimi and her Mama as they get ready for sleep. It begins:

Each night, after kisses, Mimi asks for sweet dreams...

And Mama whispers
Softly colored pictures
To fill Mimi's head
As she slips into bed
Between sheets cool and smooth...

And then the next two pages show a beautiful photo of snow covered spruces and the words are:

Mama says, "Think of..."
Snowflakes big as cotton balls,
Slipping from winter-white clouds,
Melting like sugar on your tongue,
Snowflakes like little stars
Blanketing the ground."

Each pair of succeeding pages show other sweet pictures, while in the lower right hand corner we see Mimi becoming increasing relaxed until she falls fast asleep.

Four Stars. [B+] Great Read-aloud. Art is either very nice or extremely cute depending on subject. (There is a darling mouse in a little girls shoe in one photo.) My son (newly 5) picked this up at the library and we've been reading it every night.

I really enjoy reading this book to my daughter. It uses descriptive language and soothing imagery which not only teaches her but helps her drift off to sleep with happy thoughts!

I love the vivid language throughout this book! It is full of sensory details, metaphors, and similes:
"fat bumblebees humming....snowflakes big as cotton balls, melting like sugar on your tongue....puppies with wet little noses and big chubby paws"
along with the beautiful bright pictures. It is a bedtime winner!

I have been reading this to my little Holly for over a year almost everynight, she knows all the words and several lines make her smile. Every night she asks for either Sweet Dreams Mimi or Goodnight Moon. I would strongly recommend this book, I plan to put it away in her lifetime memories box if she ever outgrows it. I bet 20 years from now she could read this book and remember most of the lines.

I was floored the moment I began reading (to my 18-month old) this wonderful, beautiful book! It was all I could do not to cry as I read it: the book is page after page of wonderful photograpy and poetic, soothing, Heaven-like imagery. This is what children's books should be; this is what marks the Baby Einstein collection a league above all the rest. Take a minute: if you're reading this review, then you also have a minute or two to use the Amazon look-inside-this-book feature--you'll see what I mean immediately; you'll want to steal this book and read it to yourself before you go to sleep!

I love Baby Einstein books but this one was not that good, I think there are better "bed time" books out there. Go to a nearest book store, read it first before you buy this.

Other reviewers seem to like this book, but I can't imagine why. It is too wordy and boring for little ones, and too short for older kids. The illustrations look like they just tried to maximize clutter in Photoshop: "This poem is about snowflakes... we'll paste a snowy tree scene and as many snowflakes as possible on to this page." Mimi and her mom look like possessed construction paper cutouts of monkeys.

In short, there's nothing really imaginative about this book. It's a bedtime book about a mother putting her child to bed. You get unimaginative poems about snowflakes, a carousel, a meadow, puppies, mice, and the night sky.

Read it before you buy it - I'm sure it appeals to someone... after all, it IS Disney. But we are more of a Dr. Seuss and Sandra Boynton crew - kids books should be fun and creative.

Cute book and good illustrations. My 9 month old baby likes the bright colors and illustrations.