In the Night Garden: The Bedtime Book

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The scene then cuts to Igglepiggle, in his boat, getting ready to travel to the Night Garden whilst the theme music plays.

It was 1am, and I set the book down, after having to re-read one of the pivotal revelations on the last page and say "ohhh. It finally picked up, but the interconnecting stories create a jumbled mess of a plot, not at all helped by the fact that many characters live for centuries, therefore making a general timeline almost impossible to put together. The show features a large cast of colourful characters with unusual names who live in a magical forest scattered with large daisies and brightly coloured flowers.One thing is for sure everyone is guaranteed to get a good rest in these well-equipped beautiful rooms. So, on its face, it’s really, quite simply a book about exploring or understanding what goes on outside at night when we’re not there sometimes.

In the Garden" lives an almost woman abandoned as a toddler when an inky mask appeared across her eyes. Unlike many of the Grimm’s tales, however, this book was internally consistent, the characters’ actions made sense, and it never felt silly. He clapped my throat in his hand, squeezing until I could not breathe…I whistled and wheezed, beating at his chest, and my vision blurred, thick as blood.Here at last is something truly rich and strange - a rarefied dish to cleanse even the most jaded palate. When I first realized the structure of the book, I was a little worried that I would get confused, so I started checking myself each time the story went into a deeper layer, recounting to myself the steps that had led there. And before we started talking, I think that there is a running idea that still feels important to me. The writing style in the beginning seems a little purplish with a lot of description but gradually you come to appreciate its vividness as an integral part of the stories and you simply can't put down this book of monster princesses, witches, horse-women, Stars, skin traders, dog-headed monks, Selkies, satyrs, and priestesses.

A final two-spread sequence finds all of the animals arrayed across the pages, dads on the verso and children on the recto. This spellbinding picture book will undoubtedly hold children in that glorious tension between wide-eyed curiosity and heavy-lidded drowsiness before they drift off to sleep.Each episode starts with a shot of a night sky with the stars appearing, followed by a shot of a child in bed, while the narrator introduces the programme's episode. The only way I could conceive of this fitting is if they wandered in differing directions with disconnected focus but this did not seem to be the point being made in the context. There are a variety of baby and toddler books in the Night Garden series to enjoy including: Ooh, Pretty Flower! This was especially noticeable to me since I had read through The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales earlier this year.