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    Bedtime for Mommy

    By Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Leuyen Pham

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    About this ebook

    Bestselling and beloved author Amy Krouse Rosenthal teams up with bestselling illustrator LeUyen Pham to put a funny and charming spin on bedtime.

    When it's Mommy's bedtime, she begs her little girl --

    "Five more minutes?"

    "Ok, but then brush your teeth!"

    But then Mommy wants another glass of water . . . another story . . . luckily this little girl is very patient!

    A hilarious reversal of the classic bedtime routine in which a little girl puts Mommy (and then Daddy) to bed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateMay 7, 2013
    ISBN9781619631144
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    Bedtime for Mommy
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    Amy Krouse Rosenthal

    Amy Krouse Rosenthal is the author of many books, including Little Pea and Duck! Rabbit!. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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    • 4/5
      The tables are turned when a little girl prompts her mother to get ready for sleep and tucks her into bed. This is a cute story with the role reversal going through the bedtime routine. The illustrations are lovely, in a style fairly typical for Pham. I could see this being a nice book for parents to share with their children before bedtime.
    • 4/5
      Bedtime for Mommy is a playful little book about the tables being turned during bedtime. In this book, Rosenthal shows the daily routine of getting ready for bedtime but instead of the mommy telling the child what to do, the child is telling the mommy. This is a great capture of reversal roles, and kids will love it!
    • 3/5
      This was a picture book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. It was about a child who puts her mother to bed. The central message was difficult to find besides sometimes things don't need to go by the rules. Parents and children can switch roles to have a little bit of fun and not be so serious all the time. I enjoyed the silliness of the book, but the lack of message was somewhat confusing. I enjoy the end of the book when the child also has to put her father to bed. The book was funny and best for k-2 students.
    • 5/5
      This is an interesting story about a mother and her daughter. Instead of the mother putting her daughter to bed, the daughter puts her mother to bed instead. She goes through all the normal routines, including bath time, making sure her mother brushes her teeth well, and a bedtime story. While this is happening, the mother tries to stall bedtime, just as a child would. She asks for 5 more minutes on the computer, wanting to read 2 bedtime stories, and she also asks for a glass of water.This book is a funny reversal of the parent-child roles, and something like this would be relatable to kids. Someone reading this might even want to do it themselves!
    • 4/5
      This humorous book is about the going-to-bed issue that parents always have with their kids. But in this book, it's the other way round; the child is getting their parents to go to bed. A very funny role-reversal tale with lots of nice pictures!This book is definitely to share with children who always nag to stay up longer. Very funny!
    • 4/5
      The book shows how a little girl cares for her mum. In fact, the other way around how are we used to be. By the means of the book children may question what their mommy's job is and that it is not an easy task to be mum. Furthermore, the book can be used to show that also parents have to work hard, maybe they are workaholics and sometimes it needs the child to tell them what to do.
    • 5/5
      Bedtime For Mommy shows how it would be like if the tables were turned and the kids had to put the parents to bed. I liked the story but, it wasn't one of my favorites from this author. It was also a very fast read, short and sweat and to the point.
    • 4/5
      This book is recommended for young children through first grade and is a role reversal of a a daughter putting her mother to bed. The illustrations put the child in the leadership position and everything the child says to the mom is something an adult might sat to a child while trying to get them to go to bed. The language is something small children can understand and would be an interesting book for children because it puts the child in the position of the responsible one and they would enjoy being seen as the leader figure. It would allow children to use their imagination and ask what they would do it they were in the same situation as the girl. I think this book is cute and well suited for young children and is something I enjoyed reading.
    • 5/5
      This is so far my favorite of Amy Rosenthal's books. I love a book that can make me laugh. I like how she puts a twist on reality. The daughter in this book is too precious, and she makes sure to give her mommy the same treatment she would normally get at bed time.
    • 3/5
      This story is a role reversal. The little girl takes on the role of the parents at night and has to get her parents ready for bed. She suffers through the same challenges parents do, such as performing relentless requests. In the end, the parents watch their little girl sleep, knowing that their ploy had worked.
    • 5/5
      (easy, picture) I had to give this book five stars because as a mother, I would love if the tables were turned and someone tucked me in! In this story, the children do the nagging to put the "toys" away, check to make sure teeth were brushed long enough and say no to two bedtime books. This book is good for making not only the adults aware of what children go through at bedtime when they don't feel like putting away their toys or to stop playing for the day, but it may help children understand how hard mommy works.
    • 5/5
      Little girl must put her mommy to bed. She has to go through the normal bedtime, bathtime routine. Funny and cute because of the role reversal. Then she must put daddy to bed.
    • 1/5
      7.A “Bedtime for Mommy” is a simple picture book about a daughter who teaches her mother how to go to bed. The daughter is learning how to take care of herself on her own by practicing on her mother. In my opinion, this book is not enthusiastic. I did not enjoy the read. The big idea is great for young children to better understand how to prepare themselves for bed time, but the overall story was not appealing. The illustrations and colors appeared faded and did not help enhance the story. Though, the illustrations were appropriate for the mood. For instance, when the daughter was reading a bed time story to her mother in bed, the illustrations presented three gradual pictures of her mother falling asleep. Also, the flow of writing was choppy and not clear. As the daughter spoke, her speech went from one point to another without transitions. Although, the story’s theme is meaningful in that it helps guide younger children to become courageous in becoming independent.
    • 5/5
      Bedtime for Mommy by Amy Krouse Rosenthal takes a humorous look at the most exhausting part of parenting, putting the children to bed.This time, it's not the child who needs to go to bed — it's the mother. The gentle but persistent daughter goes through all the usual steps to get her mother ready for bed. The mother, meanwhile, does everything she can to stall bedtime: asks for extra bedtime stories, an extra glass of water, not being able to pick out her clothes for the next day. And so forth.LeUyem Pham's energetic drawings bring this story to life. There's a playfulness to the bedtime ritual. It's funny to see childish expressions on the mother and grown-up ones on the child.As a mother of children who are sometimes impossible to get into bed, I found the book hilarious. Parents with similar children will enjoy sharing this book with them.