A Kiss Goodnight

by Claire Freedman

"Let's jump into bed and cuddle up close-our story time's such fun. We point to the pictures and say all the words. Let's read another one!"

Bedtime becomes a magical experience for your little one with this charming collection of lullabies. Beautifully written by award-winning author Claire Freedman. Illustrated with tenderness by a selection of classic artists, this soothing story is the perfect way to end the day.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

28 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2013

About the author

I’ve been a writer for over 15 years now, but it wasn’t planned!

I had a variety of jobs, including secretary, trainee buyer at Harrods, dental nurse, production assistant in a reprographic and printing company and various others.

I began to write after joining a creative writing class. I had no success with article writing, or short stories, or fiction, but the first children’s story I wrote, for a magazine called Twinkle, was accepted for publication. Hooray!!!

Things snowballed and a lot (yes lots and lots) of hard work later I now write full time and have over 50 books published. I still go to the same writing class and we have become a big happy family of writers!

For me, writing is the best job ever. I couldn’t imagine myself doing anything else. I love to create worlds for young children to enjoy and escape into – whether the stories are educational, bedtime, problem solving or just plain good fun. It’s also very exciting to see the first picture roughs, as my wonderful, talented illustrators bring the text to life.

I live on the Essex coast in a lovely two-bed-roomed flat, which I share with my husband, Michael. At long last I have an office to write in, with room for all my books and bits of scribbled on papers.

The seafront is (still) just around the corner, and I find a bracing walk (it gets freezing when the East wind blows from the North Sea!) or gentle stroll when the weather is warmer, is great for clearing my head and mulling over story ideas.

- excerpted from her website

Reviews

[Set · Rating 5 out of 5]

So cute, snugly little creatures cuddle up for bedtime and receive their goodnight kiss.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice pictures and poems. My problem is it’s lots of very short lullabies, a page each, normally 4 lines. No headings or anything. If you read the whole book they run into each other. Yet I can’t see a child letting you read just one.

[Hannah Burgess · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book tells the story of a young bear going to sleep and his mother forgetting to give him a kiss goodnight.

There is a lot of repetition in the book of the bear's bedtime routine and beautiful illustrations.

I read this book to a class of 8 children with SLD, the language in the book was very simple and easy to sign a long to. The children enjoyed this book and could predict what would happen next. The book also has a lot of vocabulary in it where it is easy enough to find objects of reference, useful for those who are learning to use sign language and those with EAL. For example a red blanket, glass of milk.

I would suggest that this book would be appropriate from nursery to reception as a book read to the whole class and in year one and two having it available in the class bookshelf for independant reading.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good young child's bedtime storybook. Each page is wonderfully illustrated and has a poem related to night or getting ready for bed. But then the next page although an individual 'poem' goes with the one before so makes it like your not reading poetry but a story. Very creatively done; a poem book that isn't a poem book. My 3 year old granddaughter and I enjoyed cuddling and reading this before bedtime.

[Meredith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Our son loves bedtime routines, so this book was a hit and added to the fun things we talk about right before bed. We loved the illustrations, too.

[duniamimpigie Anggi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Setelah baca ini, saya langsung kepengen matiin lampu, naik ke ranjang, pakai selimut, dan tidur pulas.
Serius.
Ini buku berbahaya! Bikin pengen bobo soalnya >_____<);;

[Rosie Vince · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great bed time book for young children, lovely pictures and story.

[Kay Kay · Rating 3 out of 5]

The kids liked this one too. It was pretty basic. I liked the dark stormy night.