Bedtime for Frances
Reviewed by Children’s Book List
Frances has trouble going to sleep because of frightening sounds and objects that may be going to get her.
Rating: 5 *****
I’m not sure I agree with Frances having trouble going to sleep because she is frightened. I think she’s just stalling. I have a little Frances at home and every night this occurs. Frances wakes up every 15 minutes asking for something new. This is a really cute book and a lot of parents will identify. It’s a bit antiquated, the father smokes a pipe and Frances is threatened with a spanking, but shows well how childhood behavior is timeless.
Little Bunny, an only child, is so lonely that he cannot sleep, so he asks his friends Squirrel, Skunk, Porcupine, Bear, and Owl if he can stay with them, only to discover that his own bed is best.
Rating: *****
If you have a sleepless bunny yourself this is a nice book to discuss bedtime and separation anxiety.
Night owl Lola likes to stay up coloring and scribbling and wriggling and bouncing and chattering. Lola never gets tired. How can big brother Charlie convince her it’s time for bed?
Rating: ****
This book was much better than I thought it was going to be. The illustrations are very detailed and cleaver. And the girl, Lola is not as bad as the title makes her seem, she just has a routine.
At One Hoppin’ Place, the countdown to bedtime is about to begin when a family of hamsters–a mother and father with nine kids and a baby all wearing numbered striped jerseys–arrives at the front door.
Rating: ***
I’m not sure I understand the story in this book. A child has 10 minutes till bedtime and as each minute is count down you see him go through his bedtime routine. All the while a very large group of hamsters is watching him prepare for bed. At the end of the book you see the hamsters moving but never actually see the boy in bed.
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