Five Steps To Bed

Five Steps To Bed

By Claire Potter

Illustrator:-Ailie Busby

Genre:-Picture Book

Blurb:-Mummy's fed up of chasing her children into the bath. She's fed up of pestering them to take their pyjama bottoms off their heads. She's fed up of scraping toothpaste off the ceiling. Then she has an idea! They're going to bust their bedtime and make it an easy and enjoyable time of the day for everyone. Find out how they do it and follow them to bed - having lot of fun choosing things along the way!

Would you choose to have a bath in melted chocolate - or with a mermaid?

Would you choose pyjamas that glow in the dark - or ones that make you invisible?

Would you choose a bed made of jelly - or one that tips you out in the morning?

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My Review:-I read this book with my granddaughter Emily. We had great fun reading and talking about how she would like to do her bedtime routine. We've always had a bedtime routine for both my children and my grandchildren. I'll add Emily's bedtime routine she has made at the end.

 I love how the mam in the story asks for some help from her children with making bedtime run easier. The children decide what steps they needed and then sat about drawing some pictures to show what  is next in a bedtime routine. Mam puts the pictures up on the way and once it was time for bed she asked what is first. working through the steps the children had made mam asked what sort of bath would they pick, followed by toothpaste, pyjamas, bed and lastly what dream they would like to have. We loved the illustration, they were colourful and fun, with plenty to talk about on each page. This would make a great bedtime story book, as well as a way to encourage children to have a lovely bedtime routine they have picked.

 Here are Emily's answers for going to bed...Bath:- a hot bubble bath in front of a fire, talking about her day. Toothpaste:-a toothpaste that told jokes. Pyjamas:-matching pyjamas for her and Igils (her bedtime comforter). Bed:-on a cloud with a note under the pillow from Nana and last of all her Dream:-in a spaceship flying to the moon eating watermelon. Emily scores this book 5+ stars.