Good Night, Sweet Butterflies: A Color Dreamland [Hardcover]

Dawn Bentley (Author), Heather Cahoon (Illustrator), Melanie Gerth (Draft Writer)

Book Description

Good Night, Sweet Butterflies is the perfect way to get young ones to go to sleep. The nine glittery plastic butterflies in this sweet bedtime storybook correspond to the predominant color on each spread, reinforcing color identification skills in a soothing way.

This is the ultimate novelty bedtime book -- one that little sleepyheads will clamor for each night. The best-selling format can't be beat, and the beautiful glittery butterflies and die-cut fun on every page add to the bed-time extravaganza!

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Babies and toddlers who loved the "real" ladybugs in Ten Little Ladybugs will adore the nine sparkly, three-dimensional butterflies in Good Night, Sweet Butterflies. Each glitter-covered butterfly flits through a color-themed spread which offers a place for the little winged one to sleep: "on red roses as a red robin sings good night," is the text accompanying a psychedelic, color-saturated image of birds, flowers, and various insects. The meter of the rhyming text is a bit off, which makes it hard to read the book rhythmically, but little ones are likely to be so enthralled with the illustrations that it won’t matter. The thick, kid-friendly pages are easy to turn and hard to tear; the butterflies are securely mounted, but not impossible to remove, so it might be a good idea to keep this one for reading together. (Ages 2 to 6) --Jennifer Lindsay

Language Notes

WARNING: Choking hazard. Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 24 pages
• Publisher: Little Simon (March 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689856849
• ISBN-13: 978-0689856846
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 9.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars KIDS LOVE BUTTERFLIES!, March 16, 2003

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Laurie (NEW YORK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Good Night, Sweet Butterflies: A Color Dreamland (Hardcover)

Ever since I read j.singh's The Butterfly to my kids they've been obsessed with caterpillars and butterflies and just about the entire insect kingdom. So, undoubtedly, I've been cajoled into buying pretty much every butterfly book on the market (i plan to bill Singh!). Now having read all these books I consider myself a sorta self-proclaimed authority whose mission is to save parents time and money. And so here are the winners according to me and my two wonderful children. The gold medal goes to GOOD NIGHT SWEET BUTTERFLIES (for the illustrations color and content); the silver medal to FROM BUTTERFLY TO CATERPILLAR (for content and pictures); and the bronze to WAITING FOR WINGS (for content). There are plenty of others but these are a good place to start. Hope I've been helpful.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Daughter's New Favorite, February 21, 2003

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Angie "nycpickymom" (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good Night, Sweet Butterflies: A Color Dreamland (Hardcover)

This book is absolutely beautiful. A brilliant bedtime story with vibrant colors and gorgeous illustrations. Each page teaches a different color and the illustrations boldly burst with that color. ..., is how the book starts off and we are then led all around this color dreamland. ...The butterflies in the book are popped out and sparkly. As we turn each page the color butterfly we are reading about disappears. Each page mentions the color twice and an animal. The last page reunites all the butterflies and the colorful animals as we say goodnight...My daughter loved this book since she was 4 months old. The colorful illustrations keep her interested and she likes to grab at the popped up butterflies. A delightful story I enjoy reading again and again. I sometimes even read it to myself. The purple page is MY favorite.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Hit, August 19, 2003

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E. Suter "erindipity" (D'Iberville, MS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good Night, Sweet Butterflies: A Color Dreamland (Hardcover)

My daughter loved 10 Little Lady Bugs so much I purchased this book for her as well. It took her a couple of reads to get into it, but she soon fell in love. It is now read as often and the Lady Bug book. The story is short, simple and fun to read, although when tired the last couple of pages can be a bit of a tongue twister for mom. It is an excellent story to teach color giving it a good educational value and the nice thing is it is a good bedtime story. It is very calm and relaxing so we now alternate this book with Goodnight Moon, which I was tired of reading. Really a very good choice for a toddler book. Note however, this is not a board book and the pages while thick are easily torn.