Product Description

s the day comes to an end, each precious little animal nestles into its cozy place and waits to be tucked in by its parent. Bears, horses, bunnies, ducks, and even snakes request the required number of goodnight kisses to get them to drift off to sleep. From one to ten (and then some!) these tender kisses are part of a reassuring bedtime ritual for animals and people alike. Readers will delight in counting the kisses and naming the animals, and the adorable illustrations and soothing text make this a perfect bedtime story.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #116991 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 28 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780316823814
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From School Library Journal
PreS-Another delightful bedtime story in the vein of Sam McBratney's Guess How Much I Love You (Candlewick, 1995). A succession of animal moms and dads asks their babies how many kisses they want, and the youngsters' responses count upward from Little Bear's one kiss on his "soft, brown hair" to Little Bunny's 10 kisses on his "floppy ears and… eyes." A little girl and boy round out the tale, asking for a hundred and a million smooches, respectively. The rhyming text maintains a gentle flow, but the real attraction here is the beautiful watercolor and colored-pencil artwork, which is full of vibrant, night-hued colors that bring the animals and their expressions to life. This book is sure to be an instant sleepy-time favorite.-Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Maryland School for the Deaf, Columbia
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From Booklist
PreS-Gr. 1. From bear to butterfly to snake, 10 animal parents--some moms, some dads--ask their little ones the title question: "'How many kisses do you want, young fellow?' Mommy Duck asks, fluffing Little Duck yellow." "'I want TWO,' he says with a quack. 'One on my beak and one on my back.'" Each response is well matched to the creature; Little Spider, for example, wants eight kisses, one for each leg. The game continues until a human Daddy poses the question to his "princess pink" and a Mommy asks it of her "brave knight." "'I want a HUNDRED,' says the little girl. 'One on my nose and one on each curl.'"; "'I want a MILLION,' [the boy] says with delight. Finishing his book, he says good night." The soft-toned watercolor-and-colored-pencil double-spreads have a snuggly feel that reinforces the gentle tone of the text. The kisses, the counting, and the rhymes will have youngsters itching to participate in the action; the last page, which addresses the question right to young listeners, will get things started. Julie Cummins
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Review
'A beautiful bedtime ritual. Amazing illustrations bring to life the love of a parent and child.' Kidsbookshelf

Customer Reviews

Great book to read at bedtime
This is an awesome book to read to your child when it's time to go bed. It has a lot of descriptive words such as snuggling, hugging, nuzzling, slithering, etc. The story is about animals getting ready for bed and their parent asking how many kisses do they want? Our family loved the illustrations, rhyme, and counting kisses.

Poor Kindle transition
Though the print book is great and deserves the praise it gets, the Kindle version seems to be a simple conversion rather than a thought-out Kindle edit (veiwing on Kindle 2). Many of the illustrations are split between two Kindle pages and some of the text does not correspond to the image on the screen at the time. The contrast in the illustrations was not edited for the Kindle either, pictures look washed-out and in many of the scenes it's hard for a toddler to distinguish the characters from the backgrounds. You also get pages with text only so when viewing this book with a toddler they loose interest quickly.
I wish they had done a better job on the conversion vs. a simply page-by-page "scanning" of the book as it would have been a great book to read to my child on the Kindle. In the case of this book, get the print version instead (5 stars for the print version).

Top favorite for Parent and Child
This book should be in every toddlers collection. Counting, rhyming, and animals, can't get much better than that! After counting to ten with animals, a girl says she want 100 kisses, one in each curl. A boy tells his mom he wants a million, then it asks how many kisses do you (your child) want tonight. My daughter loves to tell me, and then get her number of kisses!