Customer Reviews

I Don't Want to Sleep Tonight (Pop-Up Book)

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I have been having a rough time with my 3-year old in the evenings - she does not want to go to sleep. I saw Deborah Norville on the Today Show and thought I would give the book a try. My daughter LOVED it! She walks around holding the book, playing with the flaps, and asking me if it is bedtime yet!

A parent's dream. My little one and I were going through a difficult time with night-terrors. I saw Deborah Norville on the Today Show and I loved the warm and loving way she confronted the same situation. Now my son and I snuggle up and explore this wonderful book with a supportive message. We are already seeing the results of turning off the TV and reading this story together before bed!

I liked this book immensly, and it is one of my 3 year old's most requested read-alongs. If you want to teach your child the value of reading, that it's ok to shutoff the TV and the video games, this is the book for you!!

Maybe this book works if you have kids who are 10 years old or more, but it doesn't work for younger ones...these type of books fall apart or tear and this one does, too. It wasn't even that good a book.

This book fails in virtually every respect. The language is flat. The meter and rhyme are awkward. The sexual stereotyping in the second half is offensive. The anti-television message is overly pedantic.

Because this book is by a celebrity it is on the shelves. Period. What awful rhyming junk. I wish she would have written this story in prose. She has said it is a 'poem'.... but it is not. It is an attempt at rhyme that misses. What is worse, though, are the illustrations. What garish stuff for a child. It is listed for Baby-preschool; you're kidding, right?

We originally received this book as a gift for our 9 year old when she was two and it was one of her favorite stories 7 years ago. I pulled it out again for our two year old and it quickly has become her favorite too! We have read this book every night for the last 7 months. The rhyming is wonderful and my 2 year old daughter is able to tell me what the next line is due to this. She loves lifting the flaps and pretending she is scared. This book has helped her understand that monsters are only a part of her imagination. Our family loves this book and would recommend it to anyone with children ages 18 months to 10 years!

Wonderful illustrations and spot-on verse! My children adored it

I'm a children's librarian and bought this book to use at storytime because of the positive review it got. I knew the book would be too fragile to check out to patrons, but planned to keep This book is so shoddily constructed that the last page ripped the first time I flipped through it the pop up on the last page tore.

Not only did I stumble over the text in this poem(?), but it gave my 5 1/2 year old nightmares. Why give children more places to think they see a monster? I concentrated more on finding the flaps than the reading content until we got to the end. The I realized it wasn't the story I had intended to send my son off to dreamland with!