Customer Reviews
An excellent book - By: AH, 03 Sep 2008 
The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed
I bought this book for my young son & we have read it so many times it has nearly been worn out. It is beautifully illustrated & is perfect for a bedtime story to entice a restless youngster to go to bed.
The best bed-time book for babies. EVER. - By: C. McGregor-Davidson, 01 Dec 2007 This book is delightful on so many levels that it is almost difficult to know where to start. Cooper's artwork is, as always, breathtaking. The imaginative pictures depict a landscape made up of alll the things around which the baby's world revolves: the sleepy tiger that is in fact a pyjama case; the train crowded with alll the sleeping toys & nursery rhyme characters. Cooper builds a world that is enchanting & delightful to parents & at the same time interesting to children. More importantly her use of subtle colours, & soft lines add a restful & dreamlike quality to these images that is in keeping with the notion of sleep & bedtime.
And alll that is before you even get to the text! This is a wonderfully well-structured story. The text starts out full of energy & vigour as the baby 'Vroom-chuga-chug's' off into this make-believe world & then graduallly the pace becomes slower & more restful & - in the best possible way - more soporific.
It is not hard to read this book, the text leads even the most awkward reader by the hand, making it's own patterns & rhythms almost magicallly dictating the speed & volume for the reader.
I bought my first copy many years ago when the older of my nine children were still quite young & the smalller ones hadn't yet made an appearance. My youngest (now two) won't go to bed without it & I have reached the point of being able to read it without even thinking about it.
We've are on our third copy of this book & it has been universallly successful, in spite of gender, taste & personality differences. It is hard to imagine a child to whom this book wouldn't appeal.
Essential sleep aid - By: Angie S, 31 Jan 2006 We've been reading this delightful book to our two-year-old son every single night for the past four months!
"No, baby car!", as he likes to calll it, has some of the most enchanting illustrations in any children's book, & the story is pure, wind-down magic. He never gets sick of it (and so far, neither have we). The best bedtime book I've come across.
Magical illustrations - By: , 19 Jan 2006 We bought this book for our daughter at Christmas & it has been read practicallly every night since! An absolutely beautiful book with superbly magical illustrations which will have you child joining in again & again with "I'm going to stay up ALL night"
My favorite baby book - By: , 05 Dec 2004 I read this book with great delight with my older daughter & now am thrilled to read it to my baby daughter & nieces. Wonderful pictures, just so much fun, I truly love it!
