Bedtime Books

In our family, we always read before bed. While we don't limit it to 

books about children going to bed, I definitely like to emphasize that subject! I really focused on some of these books when Mia was an older baby/young toddler and starting to resist bedtime AND not sleep very well at all. I wish I could say that any one of the books listed below helped her/us with that, but...they didn't. Oh well. They are still wonderful to read!

Here are our favorite "going-to-bed" books: 

Are You Awake? - Sophie Blackall 

The Baby BeeBee Bird - Diane Redfield Massie 

Back to Bed, Ed - Sebastian Braun 

Bedtime in the Jungle - John Butler 

A Book of Sleep - Il Sung Na 

Claire Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes - 

Goodnight Gorilla - Peggy Rathmann 

Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown 

Goodnight Owl - Dwell Studio 

Goodnight, Tiptoe - Polly Dunbar 

The Going to Bed Book - Sandra Boynton 

I'm Not Sleepy - Jonathan Allen 

Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Going to Sleep? - Bill Martin 

Llama Llama Nighty-Night - Anne Dewdney 

Little Hoot - Amy Krouse Rosenthal 

Love You Forever - Robert Munsch 

Night-Night Spot - Eric Hill 

Pajama Time - Sandra Boynton 

Sleepy ABC - Margaret Wise Brown 

Sleepyhead - Karma Wilson 

Sweet Dreams Lullaby - Betsy E. Snyder 

Ten Tiny Babies - Karen Katz 

Time for Bed - Mem Fox 

Who is Sleeping? Who is Awake? - SAMi 

Yawn - Sally Symes