Time to Say Goodnight

Sally Lloyd-Jones knows exactly what a bedtime book is for — not storytelling, but settling — and the rhythmic animal-world lullaby she and Jane Chapman built here does that job beautifully. The shift to direct address at the end ('What about you, sleepyhead?') is a small masterstroke that makes the book feel like it was written for your child specifically. One of the better pure bedtime picture books available for the toddler-to-preschool window.