Customer Reviews

Chicken Bedtime Is Really Early

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This book has everything I want in a bedtime book. Both my kids (3 and 5) were enthralled (great rhymes; colorful fun pics with plenty of detail, but not so much that we get stuck on each page for 3 minutes.) It's the perfect length (long enough that the kids are sleepier than when we started, not so long that I'm nearly falling asleep) and it finally put to bed (pun intended) my 3 year old daughter's constant question of why she goes to bed earlier than her 5 year old brother. "The farm is just like our house!" she exclaimed when we read it. Now if only I could get their room not to look so much like the pigsty...

I really enjoyed this book -- enjoyable for my daughter, due to the charming rhyme scheme and beautiful images, and enjoyable for us parents, as well -- this book avoids the insipid tone of so many kids' books, and manages to be original, witty, and soothing -- all at the same time. What an amanzing debut -- I can't wait for more books from this woman!

This is a very funny and well-written book, as other reviewers have already noted. I also appreciate that dads are featured in the putting-to-bed rituals. Wish it came in a board format so that my little one could turn the pages more easily.

Lively language and expressive illustrations offer something for our whole family to enjoy. Our son, who is not quite two, and also not quite ready for bed most nights, loves to laugh at the silly setups (OK, his parents totally dig the irony of fish asking for one more glass of water). Beware, the hamsters in this story totally steal the show! Perl has a fresh, fun voice and a way of making sense of the nonsensical toddler bedtime routine. Bates acrylics really jump off the page. I know this book, unlike some of our bedtime stories, will grow with our son.

This endearing new book for pre-schoolers ranks right up there with the best of Sandra Boynton's work. A clever, silly and downright fun book about bedtime. And Bedtime with my 2 1/2 year old can be a real chore sometimes! The book is filled with all sorts of silly animals including chickens, bunnies, fish, hamsters, sheep and more. The animals all do their best to stay up past their bedtimes, told in snappy verses that kids will love.

The book is illustrated by George Bates whose style perfectly compliments Perl's text. Great new kids book by a new author that could be a classic someday!

I teach young children and they really like this book. Although there are a lot of animals, it's fairly simple. There are a lot of words,so if you have a young group (toddlers or twos) you may want to leave out some of the words. The pictures are adorable and I especially love the hamsters, who only sleep for an hour!Then they're up again "at their hamstery best." Very cute book.

I'm still trying to get one of my kids into this book (they enjoy it, but not enough to ask for it by name). It's good, silly fun that I enjoy reading over and over as the farm animals put their little ones to bed one by one (and the author certainly has the habits of hamsters nailed). The rhymes are a little tortured, but in a way that enhances the fun. Well worth it for me, and eventually I'll find a child who enjoys it as much as I do.

This book is a favorite bedtime book for both our 21 month old and the adults in our house. It's a really engaging and clever story, plus the text is so much fun to read aloud. We also love it because it has all the animals that our child loves to name. The illustrations are simply lovely, and we have a great time picking out the little details like the clocks on some of the pages, and who has a pet bunny. We have had this book since our child was 6 months old and I had been eagerly awaiting the day that it would be appropriate--so it's been a real treasure discovering this book!