Why not start my blogging day with a book about bedtime? It's a review of the latest from the laptop of Adèle Geras and from illustrator Sophy Williams:
In a beautifully rendered telling of the wind down to bedtime and the excuses that little children will find for not going straight to bed [Adèle] Geras shares a very touching and special bedtime story. Each of the lullabies is gently rhyming, bringing to life the attributes of each of its intended creatures...
An ideal Christmas present, I'd say - without even a trace of bias. For two- to five-year-olds.
