Genre
Bedtime stories
Picture books for children
Illustration
Cartoony
Subject
Beds
Bedtime
Farm animals
Farms
Sleep
Character
Anthropomorphic

A simple, straightforward story of a bedtime chain reaction as everyone tries to claim their correct sleeping place. The littlest readers may get a kick out of the animal sounds, the chance for a guessing game, and the image of critters in wrong places. But grown-ups will probably find it a snooze. ( )

Recommended by Catherine D.

It's bedtime on the farm...but no one is sleeping in the right place! This animal/bedtime book has something extra going for it: the creative sound effects each animal makes as it finds its right sleeping place ("Pig toddler to his sty, waddley-jog....[Cow] tromped to her stall, clompety-stomp"). In the end, the barn cat is welcomed into the little girl's bed to snuggle down for the night. ( )

Super cute seeing all the animals find someone else in their bed and making them go to their own bed, sounds a lot like parenthood. It was sweet seeing the girl at the end come out to get her kitty to sleep in her bed since the kitty kind of didn't have a bed. This would be a good book to see if the students know their animals and their sounds. ( )

Many children sleep in their parents' bed when they are young. But have you ever heard of animals on a farm sleeping in each others' beds? This children's book tells exactly that, everyone wants to sleep in others bed and cuddle up. Even I did just that with my sister growing up. I feel this book could have more directly talked about it because it is an issue some parents have, getting their children to sleep in their own bed. But even in this way children would still understand that it is important to sleep in their own bed and on occasion its okay to sleep in their parents' or sibling(s)' bed. ( )