Reviews for Time to Sleep

The average rating for Time to Sleep based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-10-30 00:00:00 Sabas Martinez Albeit that in Denise Fleming's Time to Sleep each encountered and by Fleming narrationally presented animal continuously (read over and over again) telling another animal that winter is on the way and that therefore it is now also time for months long sleeping would probably be engaging and even much fun for very young children, and likely equally a very simple and basic general introduction to the concept of hibernation, to the idea of animals sleeping away the winter months, personally and as an older adult reader, I have indeed and definitely found Time to Sleep textually both much too one dimensional and annoyingly repetitive for my tastes (although yes, I did and do smile a bit at how the circle of cumulativeness is completed in Time to Sleep when Ladybug does not realise that Bear is already snoozing, does not need to be specifically reminded to hibernate and thus also does not appreciate being woken up by Ladybug to be told that which he already well knows). Combined with the fact that according to my personal aesthetics, I have also not found the accompanying artwork for Time to Sleep all that visually pleasant, that while I do appreciate and acknowledge Denise Fleming's use of colour and how this truly does illustratively signal the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, especially the depicted animals are generally all considerably too cartoon like for me, I from a personal reading pleasure point of departure cannot really consider more than two stars maximum for Time to Sleep as the combination of Denise Fleming's text and her accompanying images just has been rather ho-hum and not all that engaging and interesting for critical adult I, nothing terrible or problematic, just not really my cup of tea by any stretch of my imagination.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-11-01 00:00:00 Geoffrey Stone I wasn't a huge fan of this, though there's nothing really "wrong" with it. I just thought it was a little silly that animals needed to be told by other animals that it was winter -- but I guess it's supposed to be cute and fun with the animals interacting and helping their friends. The illustrations were just okay for me though, as was pointed out to me, they are large and bold which might make this a good choice for story time. I don't feel like the book offers any new or really educational information on hibernation than what most children in the target market would already know although I do appreciate that it goes beyond just mammals hibernating and some children may not think of snails and ladybugs being part of winter sleep. If you're looking for books on hibernation it wouldn't hurt to throw this into the pile and see if it resonates with your young reader(s) as I know a few friends who really liked it. I read it to my kids but they have not asked for a re-read.