cover image The Family Bedtime Treasury: 
Tales for Sleepy Times and Sweet Dreams

The Family Bedtime Treasury: Tales for Sleepy Times and Sweet Dreams

HMH Books. HMH Books, $18.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-547-85786-2

Eight picture books with bedtime themes—including Audrey and Don Wood’s The Napping House, Eileen Christelow’s Five Little Monkeys Reading in Bed, Olivia Dunrea’s Gideon, and Deborah Underwood and Renata Liwska’s The Quiet Book—appear in this large, storytime-ready collection, which includes a CD of classical music. Poems by Joyce Sidman, Calef Brown, and others appear in between the eight stories, and are also presented with original illustrations from the books in which they first appeared. The stories in this keepsake anthology are well chosen, but the large, square format (which does not always mirror the original size of the stories contained within) results in some inelegant margins framing some of the selections. Ages 4–8. (Sept.)