10 Minutes Till Bedtime, (Paperback)

from LeslieMuir

10 Minutes Till Bedtime is a counting book about a boy getting ready for bedtime and having his bedtime counted down to as he gets ready. The language is extremely simple and repetitive, with the boy working down from 10 minutes to actual bedtime. The images are drawn very colorfully and are very...

from berbels

The appeal of Rathmann's story is simple for a toddler to understand. A simple countdown until bedtime for a boy and his pets. However her illustrations are more complex and as the child grows older, the book is rediscovered each time a new developmental milestone is reached.

from amarcu4

This story had very little text , but is still one of my favorite books. I felt the illustrations were wonderfully detailed. Every page has so much to look at and even reading the book 10 years later I still notice details I hadn't previously spotted. On every page there is a hamster copying the ...

from dorthys

The little boy's father says it's bedtime, and right then his pet hamster gets a visit from a family of 12 hamsters. They go through the bedtime routine, being led by his pet hamster. Great for K and primary kids for learning counting down and sleep routines are important.

from ffox

Brilliant. The pictures are hilarious. This is almost like an I-spy book with all of the things going on in the imagery. I'm not all that familiar with counting books but I've never seen one that counts backward. I love the snapshots on the end pages and found myself looking through the book to s...