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Hello Animals, How Do You Sleep?
This beautiful board book introduces young children to a whole host of animals, including a squirrel, a fox, a bear, and a rabbit, and shows how they sleep.
Loes Botman's warm and detailed illustrations bring the different animals alive on the page, and the simple words and concepts make this a perfect bedtime book for young children.
Loes Botman's warm and detailed illustrations bring the different animals alive on the page, and the simple words and concepts make this a perfect bedtime book for young children.
12 pages, Board book
Published April 23, 2019
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March 22, 2019
Hi, we are Jules and Jenni. (Julia and Jennifer).
We were born in Germany, we are twins and we are 11yrs. old.
We love to read and we love to tell other kids about our favourite books.
Today we are looking, (together with our dad), at a book for children age 2 to 4 years.
The book is:
Hello Animals! How Do You Sleep? by Loes Botman
The story:
There isn't really a story here. On each page animals are shown and, as the title suggests, how they sleep.
We see them tucked in their tails like a fox, or cozy in the hay like a calf, or curled up in their nests like a hedgehog.
The illustrations cover the whole page and there is always a short easy sentence underneath, like "Snuggled in straw".
Jules says:
I love this little book a lot. The pictures are very lovely. The squirrel curled up in its tail is super-cute.
My favourite page is the one with the bear and the tiny rabbit in their dens, the warm orange glow surrounding them. It's very peaceful and I feel happy each time I look at it.
I like to give the very beautiful illustrations 5 stars.
Jenny says:
I like the short easy sentences. I hated long winded, endless stuff when I was in kindergarden. My sister and I, we loved to "read" our picture books out loud to ourselves and we would repeat sentences we liked over and over (I don't remember the repeat part much, but our parents do).
This is a book we would have wanted to read all the time.
It also makes you feel calm and peaceful. I think, it's perfect for bedtime.
I like to give this lovely little book 5 stars.
The Dad says:
I don't have much to add, my kids said it all.
The artwork here is very enchanting, even as an adult, I kept going back to just have one more look at the stunning artwork.
The short easy lines are just right for the young audience and they are also easy to remember.
I fully agree, the book creates a very warm and relaxed atmosphere, absolutely perfect for bedtime.
A total of 5 stars from all of us.
We were born in Germany, we are twins and we are 11yrs. old.
We love to read and we love to tell other kids about our favourite books.
Today we are looking, (together with our dad), at a book for children age 2 to 4 years.
The book is:
Hello Animals! How Do You Sleep? by Loes Botman
The story:
There isn't really a story here. On each page animals are shown and, as the title suggests, how they sleep.
We see them tucked in their tails like a fox, or cozy in the hay like a calf, or curled up in their nests like a hedgehog.
The illustrations cover the whole page and there is always a short easy sentence underneath, like "Snuggled in straw".
Jules says:
I love this little book a lot. The pictures are very lovely. The squirrel curled up in its tail is super-cute.
My favourite page is the one with the bear and the tiny rabbit in their dens, the warm orange glow surrounding them. It's very peaceful and I feel happy each time I look at it.
I like to give the very beautiful illustrations 5 stars.
Jenny says:
I like the short easy sentences. I hated long winded, endless stuff when I was in kindergarden. My sister and I, we loved to "read" our picture books out loud to ourselves and we would repeat sentences we liked over and over (I don't remember the repeat part much, but our parents do).
This is a book we would have wanted to read all the time.
It also makes you feel calm and peaceful. I think, it's perfect for bedtime.
I like to give this lovely little book 5 stars.
The Dad says:
I don't have much to add, my kids said it all.
The artwork here is very enchanting, even as an adult, I kept going back to just have one more look at the stunning artwork.
The short easy lines are just right for the young audience and they are also easy to remember.
I fully agree, the book creates a very warm and relaxed atmosphere, absolutely perfect for bedtime.
A total of 5 stars from all of us.
March 21, 2019
Like humans, animals get tired at the end of the day too. This board book features twelve different animals as they settle in for a good night's sleep. Some take their rest in nests or dens, some curl up in straw or an a comfortable cushion, and others wrap their tails around their bodies as they attempt to get as comfortable as possible. I really liked the colors used in the illustrations as well as the mood evoked in these scenes. I'm betting that some of the images will help put some little ones themselves in the right frame of mind for some snoozing.
September 27, 2023
A lovely board book to introduce some key animals to a very young book user, where they sleepily tell us, in pairs, how they sleep – the rabbit and bear are both in the dark, the fox and squirrel both have their head tucked into their tails, and so on. Pretty stuff, and as of April 2024 due to be in a box set of some of this author's very similar titles. 9781782508564 is due to contain the following, which all get recommended:
Hello Animals, How Do You Sleep?
Hello Animals, What Makes You Special?
Hello Baby Animals, Who Are You?
Hello Bugs, What Do You Do?
Hello Animals, How Do You Sleep?
Hello Animals, What Makes You Special?
Hello Baby Animals, Who Are You?
Hello Bugs, What Do You Do?
January 14, 2019
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
April 6, 2021
For: animal lovers; readers looking for a sweet, snuggly bedtime book.
Possible red flags: unclear animals at times.
Possible red flags: unclear animals at times.
September 27, 2021
Nice illustrations. Short and simple.
June 16, 2025
Stunning illustrations. Too short!
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