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It's Time to Sleep, My Love

Nancy Tillman,

Eric Metaxas

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Feb 04, 2011 Ronyell rated it really liked it

Shelves: animal-books, bedtime-stories, eric-metaxas

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 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 who love reading about sleep during their bedtime stories.

Wow! I never would have imagined that I would read a bedtime poem so eloquently written as this book was! Eric Metaxas has done a splendid job at writing this book as it is truly cute and inspiring while letting many children know about the true meaning of sleep. Eric Metaxas made this book truly memorable by describing everyone sleeping through poetry and my favorite quote in this book is:

“It’s time to sleep, my love, my love.”

Just that refrain alone is enough to make the audience feel the magic of dreams through this story and I also loved the way that the phrase “my love” always pops up because it is extremely cute to read over and over again and that phrase helps the audience realize how all the animals and humans loved their children whenever they give them a good night. Nancy Tillman’s illustrations are just beyond beautiful as all the animals and humans look so realistic yet dream-like at the same time. What I really loved about Nancy Tillman’s illustrations is how realistic they are the illustrations look like photos of real trees and lakes and I loved the way that there are shadows below the trees and how the humans and animals’ reflections show up so clearly in lakes. I also loved how the illustrations sort of emit a light glow as the glow makes the illustrations extremely dreamy.

The only reason why I gave this book a four star rating instead of a five star rating is because even though I thought that the writing was lovely, it did not feel well drawn out, meaning that there could have been more said about the beauty of dreams and going into more detail about what sleeping is like to children. Also, even though I thought that the phrase “It’s time to sleep, my love” was cute, it seems like it was overused in this book and it just got so repetitive afterwards.

Overall, “It’s Time to Sleep, My Love” is a truly cute little story about sleeping and it will be a great read for children during their bedtime. I would recommend this book to children ages three and up since there is nothing inappropriate about this book and it will easily put toddlers to sleep during bedtime. ...more

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Shelves: to-read-interloan-my, to-read-poetry, to-read-goodreads-authors

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