10 Minutes To Bedtime

Peggy Rathman

"I read Ten Minutes til Bedtime because I have a 3 and a half year-old son and we read every night, and it's one of his favorite books. It was I guess chosen kind of at random, but it became one of those books where we read it every night, and then the next night, and the night after that, and a real actually, a classic.

It's about a boy who has a couple of pet hamsters and has hamsters over every night I assume every night before bedtime. My favorite part of the book, and I think my son's, is all the detail. So we're not only reading a book but we're talking about all the different activities going on. When he's taking a bath, there might be what appear to be like 100 hamsters around him; and they have lawn chairs set up, and parasols, and they're listening to the radio, and kicking a soccer ball around, and all these things that you would do at a beach maybe. We get to talk about all those little things, and there's enough detail that you can do it every night and still find more detail.

There is absolutely nothing that we don't like about the book. It's also a good length; it doesn't go on forever. It's the exact right length for a bedtime book. My son is 3 and a half, and I think he's pretty much at the perfect age for it although I'm enjoying it, and I'm 46, so maybe a lot of people can enjoy it. I'd give Ten Minutes til five stars. There's nothing that I would like different or better or more or less; it's really perfect."

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