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Apr 28, 2011 Ronyell rated it really liked it

Shelves: goodreads-group-reads, fairy-tales-folktales, manners, bedtime-stories

I was reading this book for the Goodreads Children's Book Picture Book Club for the theme of royalty and I thought that it was pretty cute. “The Prince Won't Go to Bed!” is a children's book by Dayle Ann Dodds along with illustrations by Kyrsten Brooker and it is about a young prince who refuses to go to sleep when the king and queen went to the ball and left him at the castle. “The Prince Won't Go to Bed!” might have a simplistic plot but it is extremely cute for smaller children to enjoy!

When I was reading this book for the Goodreads Children's Book Picture Book Club for the theme of royalty and I thought that it was pretty cute. “The Prince Won't Go to Bed!” is a children's book by Dayle Ann Dodds along with illustrations by Kyrsten Brooker and it is about a young prince who refuses to go to sleep when the king and queen went to the ball and left him at the castle. “The Prince Won't Go to Bed!” might have a simplistic plot but it is extremely cute for smaller children to enjoy!

When I read this book, I thought that it was a pretty unusual book about how to get a child to go to bed and it was done in such a cute way! Dayle Ann Dodds has done a good job at writing this story as the story is about how a household of servants tried to get a young prince to go to sleep. I liked the way that this book was written in a rhyming prose to tell the story such as this quote:

“He needs a nice warm BATH,
suggested Old Lord Gerty.
It's clear to me a prince can't sleep
if he's soiled and dirty.”

I also loved the hilarious antics that followed the servants trying to get the young prince to fall asleep as one servant's attempts to get the prince to go to bed fails, another servant steps in to suggest another idea, which leads to the whole royal court being involved in trying to get the prince to fall to sleep. I really loved the ending of this book (which I will not spoil for you) which was extremely sweet and simple, that any parent could think of such an idea to put their child to sleep. Kyrsten Brooker's illustrations are extremely creative as the small prince is shown in a blue royal robe and he wears a small golden crown that makes him look adorable. It was also hilarious seeing the young prince's mouth go slightly wide whenever he screams out that he does not want to go to bed. I loved the way that Kyrsten Brooker used pastel painting to illustrate the pictures, while at the same time pasting items that seem cut out of magazines onto the pastel painted characters which really bring out the creativity in the illustrations.

The reason why I gave this book a four star rating instead of a five star rating was because I personally found the story to be a little bit too simplistic as it is just simply about the servants trying to put the prince to sleep. Even though children will easily love this book because of the hilarious way that the servants tried to put the prince to bed, I just personally wanted a little more from the story, like a little more action, but this book was meant to be aimed at small children, so some adults might be a little bored with reading this book to their child.

Overall, “The Prince Won't Go To Bed!” is a really cute book that will be vastly enjoyed by small children who also have trouble falling asleep. I would recommend this book to children ages four and up since there is nothing inappropriate in this book. ...more

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