Rabbit's Bedtime [Hardcover]

Nancy Elizabeth Wallace (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 2 and up

What was good about today? Thus begins this lyrical invitation to reflect on a day well spent. In gloriously simple fashion, Rabbit's Bedtime illustrates the satisfying balance of creating, sharing, thinking, and learning that sustains every child. Above all, it reveals the power of love. A sweet enticement to reflect on the events of the day before nodding off to sleep

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

PreSchool-Shades of Goodnight Moon. Instead of bidding adieu to objects in Baby Rabbit's room and world, this youngster and a parent approach bedtime by recounting the activities of the day in simple rhyme. The text and collages depict a day full of work, play, quiet time, reading, cuddling, and hugging. If the effort as a whole borders on the cloying, the clean design and the book's small, square format make it a likely success. The artwork is so simple and colorful that the book will work both for bedtime reading at home and small storytimes.
Sue Sherif, Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library, AK
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Kirkus Reviews

As a young rabbit prepares for sleep, the pleasures of the day are recounted in couplets: ``Time with others. Time alone./Time to nurture seeds I've sown.'' In the day, there was also time to play, sing, cuddle, and hug. Each activity is impressively captured in Wallace's distinct cut-paper artwork; the colors invite readers to linger, and the scenes are immediately recognizable. The positions struck by the rabbitse.g., two bunnies dancing about in the spray of a sprinklerare remarkably natural. While the rhymes and imagery are highly accessible, Wallace has added incidentals that expand the age range for the book, such as ladybugs, dragonflies, or a crab in a fish tank, that are fun to discover and identify. The final image of the bunny hunkering down with a teddy bear will bring smiles. (Picture book. 1-5) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children; 1st ed edition (September 27, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395982669
• ISBN-13: 978-0395982662
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 7.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,206,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #55 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Animals > Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs & Squirrels > Nonfiction

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A new bedtime classic to rival Goodnight Moon, March 16, 2001

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Geoffrey Marshall (Neptune Beach, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rabbit's Bedtime (Hardcover)

This simple and beautiful bedtime story begins with the mother rabbit tucking in her little one and asking "What was good about today?". With simple text and lovely collage illustrations the rabbit's day is recalled. The little rabbit's day is a study in balance with time for work, play, music, dance, painting, time with friends and time alone, etc. At the end the question "What was good about today?" repeats and is answered with "A lot of things I would say".

My kids (ages 3 and 22 months) both love this story and insist on hearing it every night. It has sturdy carboard pages that they can turn themselves (but it is not a true board book). Our 3 year old attends a Waldorf preschool and the rabbit's day reminds me of the rhythm of her preschool day so much that I am planning on buying a copy of this book for each of her classmates. This book would make a great baby gift which I think could be enjoyed from birth to age 5 or 6.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Night, bunny, August 11, 2011

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Linda Pagliuco "katknit" (CT, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rabbit's Bedtime (Hardcover)

Little Rabbit cuddles with his dad at bedtime, reviewing, in simple rhyming verse, all the things they did today. From housework to reading to playing with friends, Rabbit's day was a pleasant one indeed. Dropping off to sleep with happy thoughts is always a good thing. Perhaps the best feature of Rabbit's Bedtime is the artful illustrations, formed of basic shapes in construction paper colors. This is a lovely little story to read to under-three's, or to serve as an early reader for somewhat older kids.

5.0 out of 5 stars Rabbit's Bedtime, December 10, 2010

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Nicole (PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rabbit's Bedtime (Hardcover)

A very sweet book. My 23 month old has this read to her at bedtime every night. She enjoys pointing out the "incidentals" mentioned in the review above--sun, bird, butterfly, etc; and offering her own interpretations of what the rabbits in each scene are doing.