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It's Time to Sleep, My Love
by
Eric Metaxas,
Nancy Tillman (Goodreads Author)
It's time to sleep, it's time to sleep,
the fishes croon in waters deep.
The songbirds sing in trees above,
"It's time to sleep, my love, my love."
As children prepare for bed, the world around them is also settling down for the night. Animals who live in the jungle, the forest, the sea—all whisper to their babies a soft refrain: It’s time to sleep, my love.
As comforting as a...more
the fishes croon in waters deep.
The songbirds sing in trees above,
"It's time to sleep, my love, my love."
As children prepare for bed, the world around them is also settling down for the night. Animals who live in the jungle, the forest, the sea—all whisper to their babies a soft refrain: It’s time to sleep, my love.
As comforting as a...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
September 30th 2008
by Feiwel & Friends
(first published 2008)
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This is a nice, soothing bedtime book with gorgeous illustrations. Great for reading aloud to children as they relax and go to sleep.
I have read many of Eric Metaxas’s works through Rabbit Ears Productions,
a popular children’s series during the 80s and 90s. Imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon one of his recent works that is written in poetic format! “It’s Time to Sleep, My Love” is a poetic children’s book by Eric Metaxas along with illustrations by Nancy Tillman and it is about how both humans and animals are telling their children to go to sleep. “It’s Time to Sleep, My Love” is a great children’s book for children wh...more
a popular children’s series during the 80s and 90s. Imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon one of his recent works that is written in poetic format! “It’s Time to Sleep, My Love” is a poetic children’s book by Eric Metaxas along with illustrations by Nancy Tillman and it is about how both humans and animals are telling their children to go to sleep. “It’s Time to Sleep, My Love” is a great children’s book for children wh...more
Just awful. Syrupy, saccharine verse, accompanied by digitally manipulated photos that look like 'how to' illustrations from Dummies' Guide to Photoshop v. 2.5 (CD-ROM edition).
This is the kind of book that inspires fury at the injustice in the world. One imagines Tillman and Metaxas as long-con grifters, having money-fights in the back of a limousine as they spend 15 minutes writing and illustrating their next best-selling plate of tripe.
Metaxas, incidentally, has a parallel career as a right...more
This is the kind of book that inspires fury at the injustice in the world. One imagines Tillman and Metaxas as long-con grifters, having money-fights in the back of a limousine as they spend 15 minutes writing and illustrating their next best-selling plate of tripe.
Metaxas, incidentally, has a parallel career as a right...more
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I really wanted to love this book and it came recommended by some good friends here but it ended up being just okay for me. The test is sweet and reassuring at bedtime but nothing especially original. The illustrations are creative and I liked the variety of animals incorporated, but some of them just felt a little weird and disjointed to me--like how some are of just animals and their babies, then some are of animals with little humans. Well, maybe I was just in a funky mood as I really liked O...more
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Jan 08, 2011
Lisa Vegan
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
bedtime reading for kids who do not have frequent nightmares
This is a lovely book to read as a bedtime story but, because toward the end it talks a lot about dreams to come, not ideal for children who fear nightmares.
The story is in rhyme and there are many gorgeous paintings, of nature, its animals going to sleep, including a couple of paintings where a human child is asleep with the animals. All the paintings are calming and soothing, except for one I wondered about when prey is being addressed by predator, but young kids are not likely to pick up on t...more
The story is in rhyme and there are many gorgeous paintings, of nature, its animals going to sleep, including a couple of paintings where a human child is asleep with the animals. All the paintings are calming and soothing, except for one I wondered about when prey is being addressed by predator, but young kids are not likely to pick up on t...more
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It's Time to Sleep, My Love, is a gentle bedtime story perfect for lulling little ones to sleep. Simple, rhyming text creates a picture of nighttime stillness as animals grow weary and settle down to go to sleep. The illustrations are gorgeous and very imaginative. They have an almost ethereal quality. My personal favorite is one of a moose, panda, tiger, giraffe, and deer in a hot-air balloon looking down on a sleeping village. The use of color and light is just amazing.
It's Time to Sleep, My L...more
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I'm being a bit generous with the five-star rating on this one; it deserves a 4.5. The words in this one are pleasant but not as moving or charming as in On the Night You Were Born, which Tillman writes and illustrates. She is only the illustrator here, but the pictures--oh, the pictures! I haven't encountered any illustrations as emotionally evocative in any other children's book (not yet anyway). The cover image is one of my favorites--the little girl sleeping soundly with her fingertips in th...more
Sweet, comforting rhymes and gorgeous illustrations in night-time hues make this a wonderful bedtime story book. The illustrations are typical of Nancy Tillman - beautifully drawn animals and children in gorgeous scenes. I would like to frame a few to hang in Sophie's room. The text is full of love and made for snuggling next to a child or grandchild as you read, "And as you dream inside your sleep, the fishes crooning in the deep, and all the songbirds up above will sleep and dream of you, my l...more
There isn't a story to this book - just beautiful illustrations with the refrain, "Go to sleep, my love."
Finn adores this book. He loves the pictures - we spend most of our time with this book picking out the various animals and objects in each picture and he takes great joy in being able to point things out quickly now that we've read it so frequently. It's a great book to help wind him down before bed - it's usually one of the last ones we read before sleep.
Finn adores this book. He loves the pictures - we spend most of our time with this book picking out the various animals and objects in each picture and he takes great joy in being able to point things out quickly now that we've read it so frequently. It's a great book to help wind him down before bed - it's usually one of the last ones we read before sleep.
When my two-year old granddaughter who lives on the opposite coast from us asked for a bedtime story during our last visit, I picked this up from her table of new holiday gifts. As I read the words, the lovely verses and beautifully creative illustrations, she snuggled in more, her eyes quieted, and she also flowed with the pages.
It was magical. It is a magical book. There are unfamiliar phrasing, pictures of wild animals, a young girl sleeping next to those animals in some of the pictures, and...more
It was magical. It is a magical book. There are unfamiliar phrasing, pictures of wild animals, a young girl sleeping next to those animals in some of the pictures, and...more
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I was surprised to discover that this is the clean edit of Adam Mansbach's Go the F k to Sleep. Thank goodness the night I read it to my son he took this version to heart and I didn't have to coerce him into drifting off.
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Another book I chose from the library. This book was a decent "goodnight, bedtime" story book. The book just had the animals say good night to their offspring all through the book. It was a quiet quick read that you could read a baby. A toddler though may need more interaction, but a baby could definitely go to sleep on this book. Calming and soothing words that would put anyone to sleep. I would rate this book a 4.
This book is much better suited to hardcover than a board book, but since I have a toddler on my hands who loves to shred books, I wound up with this edition. The shrunken down images are a little dark for my liking (due to the smaller dimensions of the board book), but the story and illustrations are standard Nancy Tillman fare...lovely and sweet. A nice addition to our bedtime book rotation.
As children prepare for bed, the world around them is also settling down for the night. Through the seasons, animals who live in the jungle, the forest, and the sea all whisper to their babies, and to yours, a soft refrain: "It's time to sleep, my love." www.hcpl.net
Excellent!
Excellent!
I read this while waiting in a Kohl's checkout line. It has beautiful illustrations and would be a very soothing read for children right before bedtime. They are selling the books right now for $5 and 100% of the net profits go to support children's health.
This book is very sweet and poetic. I think this is a great book to read to pre-k students before their nap. I would also use this book to teach older children about using imaging as a reading comprehension strategy as the book has beautiful illustrations.
Bought this book from Half Price because I am in love with Tillman's "You Are Loved" thread that runs throughout. Was disappointed to find out she did not author the book but only illustrated. Still magical but not quite the heart of her others.
Beautiful illustrations by Nancy Tillman, and the writing by Eric Metaxas is poetic and sweet yet somehow lacks the charm of one of my favorite children's books, On the Night You Were Born, which was both written and illustrated by Tillman.
This is such a sweet bedtime book. Stunning illustrations. As I read it, I even got sleepy because of the sing-song rhyming text. I will definitely put this on my list of books to purchase for family/friends who have little ones to put to bed.
Exquisite! The gorgeous illustrations enrich the susurrous verse, lulling the listener into peaceful sleep and gentle dreams. I wish my children were very young again so that I could make reading this to them a nightly tradition.
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Sarah and Yongping gave me this book at the baby shower and Sarah told Mommy it makes her cry. Mommy especially likes the pictures of all the animals and children cuddled up together, and when she reads it very softly it helps me fall asleep.
This is such a sweet and gentle story. It's very comforting. It's a great story to tell for nap time or if you are trying to get your own children to go to sleep. The illustrations are also very magical. Such a sweet story.
I wish I had read this before I read Go the F*uck to Sleep because that's all I could think of while I was reading. It was a sweet and soothing rhyme, though. It would be great if it really helped my kids go to sleep
This is a great bedtime book, the illustrations are beautifully done and the text is appropriately soothing. This can be used for storytime as well as one-on-one.
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What a beautiful, sweet story! The illustrations are gorgeous and dreamy. I plan to own and read this book to my children before they go to sleep!
What a beautiful, sweet story! The illustrations are gorgeous and dreamy. I plan to own and read this book to my children before they go to sleep!
It's cozy and warm. The pictures are really unique. It made me wanna go to sleep, in a good way. So I know, for kids, it's effective for going to sleep too.
Beautiful, surreal, floaty illustrations and drowsy, repetitive text. I think it works well as a bedtime book which is, after all, the point.
Oh, this is a wonderful book, written so lyrically and the artwork is so soothing and beautiful. It should be a part of every childs library
One of my all-time favorite bedtime story books. Gorgeous illustrations and lyrical text. Must have for every mommy or grandmommy!
Gorgeous. Endearing. Sweet and almost lullaby like. This is one that I would like to read every night as part of our bedtime routine.
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In a decidedly eclectic career, Eric Metaxas has written for VeggieTales, Chuck Colson, Rabbit Ears Productions and the New York Times, four things not ordinarily in the same sentence. He is a best-selling author whose biographies, children’s books, and works of popular apologetics have been translated into Albanian, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, and Macedonian.
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