Goodnight Everyone

by Chris Haughton

From the creator of Shh! We Have a Plan comes a mesmerizing bedtime tale of a forest settling into slumber and one little bear trying to stay awake.

The sun is setting, and everyone in the forest is getting sleepy. The mice, rabbits, and deer all give great big yawns as they snuggle up with their families for the night. But someone isn't sleepy just yet. Little Bear thinks he can stay awake a bit longer. Can he do it? Chris Haughton's bold and vibrant illustrations will captivate little ones eager to stay up just a teeny bit longer, while sweet depictions of animals cozying up in their beds for the night will soon have them yawning off to a dreamland of their own.

Genres: Picture Books, Animals, Childrens, Storytime, Fiction, Kids, Family

32 pages, Hardcover

First published October 25, 2016

About the author

Chris Haughton is an Irish illustrator and author living in London. He was listed in Time magazine's 'DESIGN 100' for the work he has been doing for fair trade clothing company People Tree. His debut book 'A Bit Lost' was first published in English in September 2010. It has been translated into 15 languages and won 9 awards in 7 countries including the Dutch Picturebook of the Year.
'Oh No George' came out in March 2012 and has been nominated for 6 awards in 4 countries including the Roald Dahl Funny award.

Reviews

[Mischenko · Rating 3 out of 5]

Goodnight Everyone by Chris Haughton is a children's story about a little bear cub who isn't tired and doesn't want to go to sleep.

We found the story to be a little bland. It's visually appealing, but the story wasn't super interesting.

I think it's a great bedtime book for toddlers.

3***

[Dream.M · Rating 2 out of 5]

خوابم گرفت

[Stace · Rating 5 out of 5]

As the sun goes down, all the animals are going to sleep, except little bear. He’s not tired and wants to play.

Yawn, say the mice, yawn, say hare and deer, but still little bear isn’t tired.

However big bear tells little bear to lie down and relax. Soon little bear is snoring.

Goodnight Everyone is the perfect bedtime story, with its tale of sleepy animals.

The illustrations are drawn on deep coloured backgrounds. They are simple with straight lines, and certainly capture the feeling of it being night-time. The text is kept to a minimum, which will help young children read along with the person they are sharing it with.

Inside the front and back covers are star charts, and a page showing the solar system, including the sun and moon. I can see children eager to peer out of their windows and see if they can find any of the constellations, including Ursa Minor (little bear), and Ursa Major (big bear).

A wonderful bedtime story that I can see becoming a household favourite, and being asked to be read over and over again.

Reviewed by Stacey on www.whisperingstories.com

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

باورم نمیشه وسط خوندنش اینهمه خمیازه کشیدم.

[Chantel · Rating 4 out of 5]

En un formato de libro ilustrado, el joven lector ve tres conjuntos de animales y sus familias acomodarse para pasar la noche. El sol se acerca a la tierra y desciende para dar la bienvenida a la luna al cielo. Sin embargo, el osito no está cansado. ¿Cuántos de nosotros no nos hemos sentido ansiosos para permanecer despiertos y también verlo cómo el día se convierte en la noche? Las horas dedicadas a los adultos. El osito buscó a sus amigos con la esperanza de que siempre quieran seguir divirtiéndose tanto por la noche como durante el día. Sin embargo, el osito pronto se encuentra bostezando grande y fuerte, listo para dormir.

Esta es una historia cálida para dormir llena de ilustración impresionantes que creo que dejarán al joven lector con una sensación de calma relajante. Siempre he sido fan de los cuentos para dormir. Hay algo que decir sobre la intimidad que encontramos en el camino cuando alguien nos susurra las buenas noches a través de las historias de un libro.

La facilidad con la que se escribió este libro, sin decir demasiadas cosas, lleva al lector a imaginar los colores de la selva donde habitan estas criaturas y a reencontrarse con ellas en sus sueños.

Esta es una historia hermosa .

¡Gracias a Edelweiss+, NubeOcho y Chris Haughton por la copia gratuita de este libro a cambio de una reseña honesta!

[nazanin · Rating 4 out of 5]

تصویرسازیش عالیه، حتی پالت رنگیشم اینقد حساس دارک انتخاب کرده
واقعا آفرین پلکلم سنگین شد
دوبار خمیازه کشیدم💤💤

[Ana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Where are the nocturnal animals?

[Sarah Verhasselt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Al ontelbare keren voorgelezen voor onze driejarige. Dus daarom mocht het ook op mijn "gelezen" boekenlijst. Zot van de boeken van Chris Haughton.

[Vivian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Parents Magazine rated this among the top 10 picture books of 2016. For some reason unclear to me the end papers feature a star map and a diagram of our solar system on an indigo background. Opening to the title page we are treated to a glowing sunset with purple trees fading to pink, orange and gold bushes with silhouette heads of mice, hares, deer, and bears peeking out and gazing upon a meadow of greens and yellows. These colors are repeated throughout this bedtime story featuring a bear cub who simply isn't tired yet. Two pages into the book there are four page spreads in one die-cut vertically to facilitate flipping through each animal family. Each animal is illustrated in a block-like style. Overall everything works very nicely together.

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a nice colourful picture book about a bear who doesn't want to go to sleep. The illustrations are lovely are warm, only using a handful of colours which I think is really effective and children could use in their art too. However, I noticed that there aren't capital letters at the starts of sentences, nor punctuation other than speech marks so this would have to be considered if reading aloud to a young class. They could always have a go at adding punctuation in an English activity.

[SarahEmily1990 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely artwork and a nice sleepy story. Perfect for putting little ones to bed - made me pretty sleepy too!

[Inger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fijn voorleesboek voor kleine kinderen. De herhaling vinden ze fantastisch.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

The colours used in these books are magical.
🎨

[Kelsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute illustrations and a cool way of setting up the pages!

[Cristina Quattrone · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Chris Haughton

[T · Rating 4 out of 5]

En la misma línea que mi anterior reseña.
Libro muy tierno, sencillo, bonito, la edición es muy cómoda y la ilustración es preeeeciosa

[Inge Janse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heerlijk. Heerlijk. Welterusten allemaal vereist exact de tijdspanne die nodig is om een eenjarige in haar ogen te laten wrijven, zodat ze vervolgens hup het bed in kan (met haar dertig spenen, verwend kind). Die claim kan ik probleemloos maken, want ik heb dit boek al ruim tien keer voorgelezen, en inmiddels zijn dochter en ik zeer adequaat in het proces. Veel herhaling, veel rust in de tekst, veel oogzand in de kleuren, dus ideaal voor het proces.

Voor de intertekstuele kenners: net als Nijntje die naar Zee gaat, schat de protagonist van dit verhaal zijn (haar?) slaapcyclus verkeerd in. Dikke SO van Haughton naar Bruna dus. Zo is ie.

PS

"We found the story to be a little bland. It's visually appealing, but the story wasn't super interesting."

"Where are the nocturnal animals?"

"I noticed that there aren't capital letters at the starts of sentences, nor punctuation other than speech marks"

HET IS EEN KINDERBOEK GEEN NIEUWE DOSTOJEVSKI

[Ingrid Sousa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I told fellow author Guilherme Trindade that I was gonna give this book five stars, and I'm not entirely sure he believed me. But hey, it checks all the boxes it should. It is adorable: short and sweet, with lovely illustrations that make a good use of shapes and color ranges. Plus, although I'm writing this a few days after I read it, I'm almost certain it made me yawn - not in a bad way, but in a "these critters are sending your 31yo self to bed" way, accomplishing its purpose.
So, there you have it. Five well earned stars.

[Zahrah Al-Merei · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very visually appealing book about animals going to sleep. The calming words (sleeping, yawn) make this a good bedtime story for children. The pictures of the planet's on the first and last pages could also be used to introduce children to the solar system. Illustrations themselves are beautiful and unlike anything I've seen before in a children's book. Overall an amazing story!

[Reetta Saine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Näiden Haughtonin kirjojen juju on nykyisin enää kuvituksessa, sillä tarinat ovat superpliisuja. Söpöjä kyllä.

Carlen Pikku toukka paksulaismainen sivujako on kiva, samoin koko upea kuvitus. Nukutaan siis!

[Blanco Meyers · Rating 4 out of 5]

My tiny human, who is almost 3, liked this book a lot.
And even though he wasn't tired, like Little Bear, he was ready for a nap after reading.

We also liked the different size pages in the beginning - combined with the colors of each page, it was pretty.

[Danielle]

The colors! They hum with quiet electricity. The kind that, though vibrant, might just lull you right to sleep.

[اليازية خليفة · Rating 3 out of 5]

أحب قراءة قصصه، هذه قصة جيدة لقبل النوم..
ولكن الأهم فيه أن البداية والنهاية من الكتاب لا القصة تُعرض فيه صفحة للمجموعة الشمسية، وموقع القمر بالنسبة للأرض ، وكيف يحدث الليل والنهار..

[Allison]

Love the art, the story is just so so.

[Michael Earp · Rating 5 out of 5]

So lovely! Who couldn't resist snuggling down to sleep after reading this? I know I want to...

[Stephanie Croaning · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stunning colors illustrate this brilliant goodnight story. It is an excellent bedtime story!

Picture book, fiction
Interest Level: K-3; Reading Level: 2.1
4 out of 5 stars

Chris Haughton's illustrations really carry the weight of this story about a little bear who isn't quite ready to go to bed when the other forest animals are.

With rich shades of blues, reds, and purples, Haughton has us follow Little Bear at bedtime. I love this illustration as it shows the contrast between the text, "everyone is sleepy" and the wide eyes of Little Bear that just peek through a bush.

At this point, the story begins to follow a pattern. First, all the animals are sleepy and yawn. We see the same repeated pattern of words as we witness the mice, rabbits, deer, and finally Great Big Bear take settling breaths and all yawn. Except for Little Bear. Then the same type of pattern repeats, this time with little bear visiting each group to see if they want to play, only to be told "we're too tired."

Finally, sleep, and the deepening darkness of night catch of to Little Bear and he mimics the stretch and yawn pattern of Great Big Bear from earlier. The final pattern that the reader goes through shows each family asleep and tells them goodnight. The recurring patterns and order of animals is a calming aspect of the story, and lends itself well to bedtime reading.

Alert readers of picture books will notice other details of Haughton's illustrations that make this story truly brilliant.

When we say goodnight to the mice, we see how the soft snore of one of the mice blows a fluffy dandelion seed into the night sky. Alert readers can follow the path of that seed in each of the following illustrations. But that isn't where the brilliance stops.

Make sure to pay special attention to the endpapers inside the book cover. The front endpaper shows the constellations when the night sky is in the southern hemisphere. If you look closely at the illustration of the earth and location of the moon, you can see the shapes of the animals in the story and see that they appear to be awake. The back endpaper illustrates the opposite -- the night sky in the northern hemisphere, and the animals on the earth appear to be asleep. Haughton has also highlighted the Little Bear and Great Bear where the constellation appears in the night sky. I love the idea that the reader has put Little Bear and Great Big Bear to sleep in the story, and now we can see them sleeping in the night sky.

Look very, very closely at the endpapers and you can also see that dandelion seed! The path it takes as it floats into the night sky can be traced from the back endpaper right back around to the front endpaper, where it can be seen floating to earth. Those tiny details, and the fact that every part of the book is used to complete the story make this a masterpiece.

[Cat Strawberry · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a lovely bedtime book I’m sure many young children will enjoy. I haven’t seen or read any of Chris Haughton’s other books before, but I love the illustrations in this and the simple message of everyone going to sleep. The paperback copy is around A4 in size, a little wider and a little shorter, with thick and colourful matt pages inside

‘Goodnight Everyone’ starts with the sun going down and everyone is getting sleepy. But Little Bear isn’t tired and doesn’t want to go to sleep yet. Although the rest of the book has full pages, there are some half pages at the start of the story which I’ve tried to show in the photos I have taken. It’s a fun way of turning the pages and showing all the animals getting sleepy. The story itself is very simple and not much of a story, with Little Bear soon feeling sleepy himself. The whole book has a lot of fun repetition of wishing the animals goodnight.

The illustrations are what I really enjoy about this book. They are so simple and yet the expressions on the animals faces are easy to see. I love the block shape of Great Big Bear’s legs and the whole way that all the animals are made out of simple coloured shapes. The colours in this book are great too. The book has an amazing amount of colour, with purple, orange, green and blue being the main colours in use. Some people might find the colours a little strong but I think kids really enjoy a colourful book and I know as a child I would have loved this book’s illustrations.

The book has a lovely end which is obviously predictable, but there’s also and added extra on the first and last pages. At the front, before the story begins there is a picture of the southern night sky. This is a complete image of all the star constellations, and is a clear illustration. The back of the book features the Northern night sky with a special extra image where ursa minor and major are shown. I love this added extra, it not only is a fun little extra image to add to the book, but makes this something kids can look at when they are older too, if they want to learn the star constellations in the future.

I really do love this book, I know I would have loved it when I was younger. The colours, the shapes and the fun and simple story make this the perfect book to read to kids, especially if like Little Bear, they don’t feel sleepy yet.
-Thanks to Walker Books for a free copy.

[Gemma · Rating 2 out of 5]

The colors are both vivid and calming - the darker blue hues of the animals seems to create a sense of calm and peace.

Maybe I'm not yet familiar with typical bedtime story books (I'm a librarian, not [yet] a parent), but I found the story kind of "meh". It's random - animals falling asleep, a bear cub who doesn't want to go to bed but then relatively quickly becomes tired and falls asleep, the animals snoring ... and that's it. If read at a leisurely pace, the simplicity of the story will likely lull someone into a state of calm, if not asleep, but otherwise I find the story somewhat lacking.

[Sarah Coles · Rating 4 out of 5]

On a very simple level, 'Goodnight Everyone' is a lovely children's bed time story with beautifully coloured illustrations. However, on another, this story could be read in school for the following reasons:

- There are various opportunities for use of different voices and actions through the story.
- The opening pages are interesting and provide opportunities to explore and discuss the stars and planets with children.
- The lift-the-flap element encourages children to be interactive - perhaps more conducive when children are up and awake!

Whilst reading through this story, I also thought that it bore some similarity to Helen Cooper's 'The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed'.

[Brett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Everyone is sleepy...except Little Bear. But then even he breathes in big & starts to yawn...There's a certain rhythm that feels a bit like breathing in the text here; things go up & then down, in & then out. Admittedly, I read this at quarter to midnight, but still, it made me noticeably slow my own breathing without even meaning to, & by the end, I too was yawning. Power of suggestion? Haughton mentions that the book is dedicated to his sister, a Montessori teacher who inspired the idea. Anyway, there's something here, & if so, I believe every parent of a toddler should own a copy, because that makes it worth its weight in gold. I do so love Chris Haughton's illustrations, too.