Good Night, Sweet Butterflies is the perfect way to get young ones to go to sleep.

It's time for the butterflies to go to sleep, goes through the different colors that can be found in nature
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I love the concept. A different color butterfly on each page surrounded by nature emphasizing that color. As you turn the page, the butterflies disappear one by one.

However, it really annoys me that for pink the author chose "pink possums" though opossums are grey and for red "red robins" though generally robins are grey with orange chests; I've never seen a robin with red. Why not pink clouds or a pink flamingo? There are lots of red fruit like cherries and apples or red birds like cardinals and tanagers, even a red headed woodpecker has true red.

So, I like it, but I get annoyed every time I read those two pages that I can't get beyond 3 stars. My son (3yrs) likes it. ( )

Good Night, Sweet Butterflies is a mini book with colorful illustrations, a simple poem story, and several affixed plastic butterfly decals for fun. The text is rhyming sentences for each two-page spread, and it is focused on particular colors under the structuring element of a bedtime lullaby for the butterflies. The pretty fliers are looking for a place to sleep, and they pass yellow ducks and daisies, green frogs in reeds, a blue stream with herons and fish, and other locales that match a particular color, with the butterfly of the corresponding color settling down to sleep in that scene.

This is a cute little book with appeal for young readers; my girls really enjoy counting down the butterflies. The rhythm of the poem is good, not forced, and my only contention is that they authors repeat the color word unnecessarily - "on red roses where a red robin sings", where "on red roses where a robin sings" would sound so much cleaner. It happens for each color. This is a petty complaint, but it bothers me every time I read it. Also, I used to wonder why in the last spread, nine colored butterflies wake to play, but only five colors are featured in the book. I looked the book up on Amazon, and discovered that the original, larger-sized book, actually had more pages and incorporated all nine colored butterflies. When they made this smaller version, they cut out several of the colors. Was that really necessary? I so dislike abridged books. Other than these problems, this book is a sweet story with a lot of read aloud potential, and I would give the complete version a three star rating. ( )

This book makes bedtime a fun, soothing experience for little sleepyheads. They love the rhyming story-and the glittery butterflies help teach colors.