A Hundred Kisses Before Bedtime

This is the sweet story of a little chick who gives all the animals a kiss before goodnight. I immediately loved the first pages: seeing this chick give kisses and goodnight lullabies was adorable.

But then, I became very annoyed by the bossy/demanding tone of the their voice: “stop playing”, “stop talking”, “why are you still doing xyz, it's time to sleep”... I don't feel like this is proper way to take care of your animal friends, nor a proper way to teach respectful communication to your kids.

Another negative aspect is that the book is very, very long. Like 20 pages too long. It is supposed to be a bed story for younger kids, but I do not think that they will be able to stay focused that long. The end of the book is very sweet tho, with the reunification of the chick with their parent.

A final negative aspect is that the illustrations are low-quality, and don't always do a good job at representing animals: the deer looks like a brown pig with no neck, the horse has only two lateral legs, the owl falls asleep when the sun is high up in the sky...

In the end, the book was a good idea at first, but it was so poorly executed that I can only give it a two stars.

Thank you NetGalley and Clavis Publishing for providing me with a free digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

Read and reviewed: 2018-11-02