Time for Bed (Fox book)
{{Short description|1993 Children's picture book by Mem Fox}}
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{{Infobox book
| name = Time for Bed
| image = Time for Bed (Fox book).jpg
| image_size = 200
| caption =
| author = Mem Fox
| illustrator = Jane Dyer
| country = Australia
| language = English
| genre = Children's picture book, poetry
| published = 1993 (Omnibus Books)
| media_type = Print (hardback)
| pages = 26 (unpaginated)
| isbn = 9781862911864
| oclc = 861531001
}}
Time for Bed is a 1993 children's picture book by Mem Fox. It is about various baby animals getting ready for bed with gentle encouragement from their parents; finally a human mother tucks in her child.
Reception
Booklist wrote: "Although the rhyme at times limps rather than lilts, there's a warmth to this that makes the whole more than the sum of its parts. Of course, one of the important parts is the art". School Library Journal wrote: "Charming illustrations and comfortable rhymes characterize this appealing bedtime book".{{cite web |url=https://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Record/795153/Reviews#tabnav |title=Time for bed |website=Buffalo and Erie County Public Library |accessdate=4 December 2016}}
It has also been reviewed by Kirkus Reviews,{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mem-fox/time-for-bed/ |title=Time for Bed |date=15 September 1993 |website=Kirkus Reviews |publisher=Kirkus Media LLC |accessdate=4 December 2016}} Publishers Weekly,{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-15-205349-9 |title=Time for Bed |date=1 March 2005 |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=PWxyz LLC|accessdate=4 December 2016}} and Common Sense Media.{{cite web |url=https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/time-for-bed# |title=Time for Bed |website=www.commonsensemedia.org |publisher=Common Sense Media Inc |accessdate=4 December 2016}}
It appears on The Daily Telegraph's 100 best children's books of all-time list.{{cite news |date=6 March 2015 |title=The 100 best children's books of all time |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/childrens-books/100-best-childrens-books-of-all-time/ |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |accessdate=4 December 2016}}
See also
{{Portal|Children's literature}}
- Sleepy Bears - another bedtime book by Mem Fox