Goodnight, My Darling Dear Book Review and Giveaway #NightMyDarling #DarlingDearBook #ComplimentaryProductReceived

Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this product through FrontGate Media in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. Affiliate links are in this review. Thank you for supporting my blog.

Goodnight My Darling Dear is a children's book by Amy (Kavs) Kavelaris. Amy is a illustrator and artist that does impressionistic bohemian art. She has three small girls and a husband that are her world. This book is dedicated to her littles. It is whimsically illustrated and poetically written. This adorable book brings a bedtime blessing to celebrate the wonder of childhood and what God has in store for all your little one is becoming.

Zari enjoying reading Goodnight, My Darling Dear.

Our Thoughts:

We loved this gorgeous hardcover kids book with dust jacket. The illustrations are so lovely! On the first page it allows you to personalize it with who it is to, who it is from, and a date. It has such delightful pictures of parent-and-child animal pairs. We love the rhyming too. The words are filled with positive sentiments. There are words within the poetry that are in a different font and in color to emphasize them and make then stand out because these words hold special meaning. I love that this book makes the child feel good about themselves, reaffirms that they can be be true to themselves and do great things with their lives. This is the perfect bedtime book to settle your little one down for the night because it ends with the child saying their prayers and going to sleep. I highly recommend this book to anyone with little ones.

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• Who Can Enter: Open to US Residents 18 years or older.
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God Bless You & Good Night Book Review and Giveaway

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God Bless You & Good Night is a hardcover children's book written by Hannah C. Hall and illustrated by Steve Whitlow. Adorable animals and rhyming verses grace the pages of this book to help soothe your little one to slumberland. This book helps remind children of God's blessings and how much they are loved as they nod off to sleep at night.

Some of the pages in the God Bless You & Good Night book.

What We Thought:
This lovely family-friendly story from the A God Bless Book series is perfect for young ones because of its rhyming verse and gorgeous illustrations by Steve Whitlow. This book portrays snugly animal parents that are getting their offspring ready for bed. They go through a bedtime routine of: seeing the night sky, eating a bedtime snack, having a warm bath, putting on jammies, reading a story, getting comfy, counting blessings, hugging, praying, singing a lullaby, saying I love you, getting a teddy bear and blanket to sleep with, counting sheep, closing eyes, turning on a nightlight, and tucking in. The sweet rhymes are sometimes silly, but also lovely.

Zari enjoying reading the God Bless You & Good Night book.

I feel that this book makes the bedtime ritual go on a bit too long. If you are trying to get your children to bed quickly this might not be the best book for you. I think this book might be better for evening time not right before bed because it does cover just about the whole bedtime routine and not really helping lull your child off to sleep until the end. It also misses the teeth brushing part of our bedtime routine. I don't have a working bathtub, so we don't do the warm baths...just showers which we do not do every night anyway. I also feel snack time shouldn't be right before bedtime. So, this book has me a little conflicted. I do like the book, but it might be better read when each of these bedtime things are being done because otherwise your child will be asking for all the things that the critters in the book are getting when you are trying to get them to go to sleep. I might have to omit the snack and bathtub pages completely if I decide to read this again.

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Who Can Enter: Open to US Residents 18 years or older.
Selection Process: 5 winners will be selected on 5/01/2018 and notified by email.
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DISCLOSURE/DISCLAIMER: I received this product for free to facilitate this review. My thoughts are mine and my family's own opinion and have not been altered by anyone else. I did not receive any other compensation for doing this review.

Putumayo Kids Latin Dreamland CD Review and Giveaway

I love music from Putumayo Kids! They are a great company that produces high quality music for kids that is both multicultural and educational. I received the Putumayo Kids Latin Dreamland CD for free to facilitate this review.

Latin Dreamland is a new album by Putumayo Kids that takes you on a dreamy lullaby journey through South America. This soothing CD has both traditional and new songs that are great for relaxing and for bedtime. I love this CD. It was nice to listen to when winding my kids down for the night. The only song I recognized was the last one. I am ashamed to say that I took 3 years of Spanish in high school and don't remember too much of it. I guess the saying that if you don't use it you lose it is correct. Fortunately for me the track note insert was filled with information about each track in English :)

The first song is about a little bunny and the lullaby its mother sings to lull it to sleep. The second is about the moon peaking in to see if the little one is asleep. The third is about the night. The forth is a love song about a pretty gardener who is sad because one of her flowers died. The fifth one is a sad story about a dove who sings for his long lost love. The sixth one is about echos in the Andes Mountains. The seventh song is sung to the children of the south from colder climates and is called Cradle of Ice. The eighth song is about a kind of tree that lives in the rainforest in Brazil and the Amazon and how it has survived a fire. The ninth song is about a waltz. The tenth song is actually traditionally sung in a style called ranchera and is played faster, but this is done slower here in a lullaby by the artist.

Track Listing:

1. Silvia Schujer with Julieta Szewach and Mariano A Fernandez - Este era un Conejo - (Argentina)
2. Maruca - Cancion de cuna - (Mexico) 
3. Márcio Faraco - Noite de Lembrar - (Brazil) 
4. Reginaldo Frazatto, Jr. - A Jardineira - (Brazil) 
5. Amanda Martinez - Cucurrucucu Paloma - (Mexico) 
6. Los Incas - El Eco - (Argentina) 
7. Pamela Rodriguez - Cunita de Hielo (por Triste) - (Peru) 
8. Helio Ziskind - Sorriso de Jequitiba - (Brazil) 
9. Luis Salinas - Un Vals - (Argentina)
10. Marta Gómez - Cielito Lindo - (Colombia)

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Jim Henson's Pajanimals Play Date DVD Review and Giveaway

PAJANIMALS is co-produced by The Jim Henson Company, Sprout and Sixteen South Television. This cute TV series airs nightly on 24-hour preschool television channel Sprout® during its The Good Night Show and also airs on NBC on Saturday mornings as part of the NBC Kids programming block. This show follows Cowbella (the cow), Apollo (the dog), Sweetpea Sue (the horse) and Squacky (the duck) as they take young viewers on exciting imaginary adventures with song, dance, new friends, and lessons to learn in every episode. PAJANIMALS teaches important social and emotional skills that preschoolers need to move through their days successfully, especially during bedtime.

February is the month of love with Valentine’s Day (February 14), Celebration of Love Week (February 10 – 16) and Love Your Pet Day (February 20), and Pajanimals want to help you celebrate by offering free PAJANIMALS - themed Valentine’s Day printable cards available now at http://www.sproutonline.com/printables/pajanimals-printable-valentines-day-cards

In the PAJANIMALS Play Date DVD distributed by NCircle Entertainment you get to see 5 stories:

• I'm Sorry, Really Sorry (teaches the importance of forgiveness and the words, "I'm sorry")
• A Colorful Problem (teaches the importance of sharing)
• Game Day (teaches the importance of exercise and having fun with your friends)
• The Rocket Ride (teaches the importance of telling the truth and knowing that your friends will be understanding)
• Share Day (teaches the importance of knowing that everyone has been nervous at some point, overcoming shyness, and that with friends you can do anything)

Includes these songs:

• Pajanimals Bounce (an upbeat song to get the wiggles out before bed)
• Our Friendship Song (great song about friendship)
• Brusha, Brusha, Brusha (great song about brushing your teeth)
• Stick to the Plan (song about bedtime routine)
• Jiggle, Jumble and Jump (an exercise song)
• Pajanimals Freeze Dance (a song about a game called Freeze Dance)
• Octopus Huggle (cute song about hugs)

Approx 60 minutes long

I had my daughters watch this before their bed routine. My daughters loved this DVD! They danced to the songs and shortly after it was over wanted to brush their teeth, get their PJs on and go to bed. This DVD has cute Muppet characters that come to life with song and dance. Each story teaches great morals and lessons that are reiterated at the end. I enjoyed watching these with my daughters and seeing them enjoy themselves.

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You can purchase the PAJANIMALS Play Date from NCircle Entertainment for $8.99

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