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Good Night, Sweet Butterflies: A Color Dreamland

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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.

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.

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.

I purchased this book for my 2-year-old niece who was going to be spending a week at my house while her parents were on holiday. She LOVED this book and asked me to read it again and again! She absolutely adored the bright, sparkly butterflies and the vibrant pages. I loved it because it not only relaxed her and helped me put her to bed, but also taught her colors (as each page is themed with a different color). All in all a great little book!

My 19 month old daughter's favorite book it the Ten Little Ladybugs, so when I saw that this book was created by the same people I grab it without taking time to really read it. Little did I know, the author and the illustrator are not the same. The book kept my daughter's attention but it does not have the same rhyming sceme as the first book. After paying closer atteniton I realized it says that the book is by the "creators" of Ten Little Ladybugs not the same author.

My 23-month old daughter loves this book. The butterflies are pretty and sparkly, the illustrations are bright and colorful, and the text is flowing and poetic. She asks to read this book nearly every night. It's also a fun way for her to learn her colors!

My 3 year old and 17 month old love the sparkly butterflies in the book. They love to touch them and turn the pages. The pictures are bright, and match the butterflies. They took this book, along with Eight Silly Monkeys, to day care and the kids there just loved to read them. Needless to say we bought a copy for the day care.

ISBN 0689856849 - Whether or not you enjoy this book will probably depend on what it is you expect from it. It is easy to become confused by the cover statement "From the creator of Ten Little Ladybugs". The creator/author of that book is Melanie Gerth, and she is also the creator of Good Night, Sweet Butterflies - but she is not the author here. The text in this case is by Dawn Bentley, illustrations by Heather Cahoon. That information, intentionally or not, is hidden away on the back cover in small letters. Ladybugs fans might find themselves disappointed.

Nine glittery plastic butterflies head off to find a place to sleep. One by one, they choose a place, until there are none left. It is time to sleep until another day arrives.

While technically a Board Book, the pages here are much thinner than the usual board book binding. That and the small, not too hard to remove butterflies (a potential choking hazard) make the book unsuitable for children under 3. There are cut-outs on the cover for all nine butterflies and each succeeding page has one less cut-out, which is a nice way to learn to count down from 9. The places the butterflies choose to sleep are color-based (the blue butterfly chooses a blue stream, the red on red roses, etc), so colors are introduced as well. The negative comes in two parts, both in the writing. The text is in rhyme, but the rhyming pattern is clunky, with long lines and no evident cadence to it. In addition, some lines are tongue twisters ("with a pink piglet and three playful pink possums"), which only makes reading the rhyme more difficult. If your child is likely to spend a lot of time on the counting, you'll take so long between pages that the rhyme issues won't matter anyway, but it's an annoyance that what is essentially a poem doesn't flow the way you expect it to. Really a nice book and a super cute idea, Butterflies is just missing something in the text.

- AnnaLovesBooks

This book is so delightful. The colors, the story, the quality---mommy and 36 mo old approve!! Two thumbs up

Its an ok book but what I hate about it is the butterflies have glitter on them. My one year old touches them and gets bits of glitter on her hands. I stashed it away and I don't know if I will take it out.