Go to Sleep, Little Farm is an adorable fat board book about the farm going to sleep at the end of the night.

The color scheme is a mostly muted blue/grey with occasional pops of muted reds (like the barn, or the little girl’s pajamas), and it’s absolutely beautiful. Serene and peaceful like it was undoubtedly intended.

The book starts “Somewhere a bee makes a bed in a rose…” and goes on from there. Not your normal “the cow goes to sleep, the donkey goes to sleep” type stuff here. Not-so common animals (even an earthworm!), illustrations and text that show where and how they sleep, and it’s just so precious. As all the animals settle down, we see the little girl reading under her covers with a flashlight. The farm settles in, dad turns off the light, and mom and dad tuck the little girl in so she can dream about all the animals that are sleeping. The author even included the “slippers, asleep on the rug” and holy cow. Since the toddler is currently in his “What’s your shoes doin’?” phase, that line was like the most perfect thing ever.

This is so much better than *gasp* Goodnight, Moon – and I love that book.

5/5 very sleepy pages.

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1) Is this book in English? What the heck?
2) If you must read it, but be warned.
3) Not bad if you stumble on it somewhere (or, great for some, but not everyone).
4) I’m recommending this. To everyone. That I think is moderately literate at all.
5) Everyone should own this book.

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