Hushabye Lily

Small children who just love animals will make this picture book a favourite bedtime story. Mother Rabbit wants Lily to go to sleep, for night-time is creeping over the farmyard. But Lily says she can’t sleep, the farm’s too noisy. Together they visit all the creatures creating such disturbance. But it is only the ducks quacking sleepy bedtime songs, cows gently lowing in their cow shed, an owl flying away, hooting, and a donkey hee-hawing in his dreams. The language is full of quiet whispers, the pictures are gentle, colours softly muted … how could one stay awake till the end? Perfect for bedtimes, up to school age and beyond.