Of all the rituals of childhood, perhaps the most cherished, for child and parent, is the nightly reading of the bedtime story. There is probably no better way to affirm love, or to send a child comfortably off into the land of sleep. The Random House Book of Bedtime Stories offers a lively (but not too lively – after all it is bedtime) selection of tales for tuck-in-time.
Among them are tried-and-true classics like Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Beatrix Potter’s Tale of Peter Rabbit, as well as more contemporary stories by such award-winning writers as Margaret Wise Brown, Alvin Tresselt, and Joan Aikenn. Old and new alike, the stories in this collection have in common a rare warmth and gentleness of spirit, which Jane Dyer has perfectly captured in her many exquisite illustrations. The Random House Book of Bedtime Stories is a gift for all seasons, all children, night after night.