God Bless You and Good Night (A God Bless Book) Board book – Picture Book, September 17, 2013

More easy rhymes for 2am readings! Part of the God Bless series, I'd previously read and reviewed God Bless My Family. I love this series! Now here's one that any parent or guardian could benefit from. A nighttime book of animals preparing for bed and saying goodnight. Sleepy giraffes, snuggly (yet still hungry) polar bears, and more, these cute animal families prepare for bed from bath time to snack time, to PJs and story time. The illustrations are adorable. Colorful, yet soft and soothing, any kid would love these cute little animals as they snuggle up and prepare to go to sleep. The rhymes and rhythm of the page make it easy to read, even when half awake and praying silently that they'll just fall asleep! For my kids, I've found that routine was extremely helpful (and important) when it was time for bed. They knew to expect one last small snack, then off to take a bath (or shower), dress in PJs, brush their teeth and finally a story before going to sleep. Sometimes it would be a devotional from Jesus is Calling kids devotional series. Then ending the night with a prayer, one last kiss and an "I love you". Not every night is perfect, and sometimes its full of tears and pouts when bedtime approaches. Perhaps this book will soothe that savage beast. Knowing that after their preparations before finally crawling into bed will be met with a special story treat, might get them to move faster...well, move, at least. Hannah Hall has a few others in the series that I haven't read yet, but I imagine the quality is right up there with this one. I highly recommended this book for any toddler or early reader. I received a complimentary copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

Purchased for a friend's baby shower. Such a cute book!

This book is available in a "Touch and Feel" version also. I ordered this one (sans) Touch and Feel from my cell phone and did not notice my preferred Touch and Feel was available for only $.53 more ! Just tipping potential buyers. Both are Lovely! Nice story, colorful and quality book.

I just bought this to give to a friend at her baby shower, and I love it! Her and husband are a cross-cultural couple, white and Indian, so I had trouble finding a good baby book that wasn’t all white people. The mom and dad animals in this are so sweet and the illustrations are beautiful without being overwhelming.The book is the perfect size, and I like the feel of it too. The outer covers are slightly puffy or cushioned feeling, while the pages are solid board book. The words are simple, relatable, sweet, and touching. I’ll buy it for other friends in the future!

An all time favorite book! Great gift for many different occasions.

By far my favorite kids book and one of my sons favorite too! This is such a sweet book with somewhat of a padded cover almost? Not sure how to accurately describe it but the actual "pages" are board of course. The size, illustrations, rhymes, mentions of bedtime prayers and God - all of it is just so well done and such a joy to read time and again as a parent and for my toddler. I can't recall how detailed the item description gets but the story is different animals on each page, and always a family of course (sometimes just mamma and baby, sometimes with daddy, sometimes multiple baby animals). It walks the animals through getting ready for bed and each page is a different stage - from bath, to snack, to PJ's, to reading a book, and then saying prayers and singing a song about God, lots of snuggles, and finally tucking the baby animal into bed at the end. I highly recommend it for every little ones book shelf!!

Cute book! However the book arrived with minor damage. Frustrating since it's a gift for my nephew and there won't be enough time to get ot replaced

This is a wonderful addition to our nighttime storybooks! The illustrations are sweet and engaging for our little ones (my daughter loves to identify the "Momma & baby" animals, and we play a game where we look for the moon on each page - it's not on the last one, so we just say the moon went "night night" too), and the rhyming text is well written and easy for our kids to follow (they are 1 and 2). I like how it flows through each step of getting ready for bed (having a snack, taking a bath, getting jammies on, reading a story, etc.) and, in my opinion, it's the perfect length for a bedtime story - not so long my kids lose interest, but not so short as to feel like we need to read 2. I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a sweet new story to tuck their little one(s) in with each night!