Review: The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep

The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep by Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Scrolling down the book's page on Goodreads I found that first several reviews start with a word 'creepy', and I totally agree! This 'new way of getting children to sleep' consists of reading incredibly boring stories with repetitive phrases meant to hypnotize the kid. The foreword says that if it didn't work the first time, just read it again. Great, just read an incredibly boring story several times and, bingo, the kid is asleep!

In my world, the bed time is the time for imagination, for interesting stories, for some time together, for reflecting on the day, and many other things, but definetely not for... that. I don't know a good word to describe what this book is supposed to do. There is no meaningful story in it, to think about and to compare with, no interesting pictures, nothing at all. If you say 'sleep, sleep, sleep...' long enough, it would have the same effect.

Sometimes, very rarely, I need my kid to go to sleep faster, but even then I wouldn't read this. I'd choose some authobiography or other non-fiction, boring for the kid, but interesting for me. Works every time. By the way, this 'new way of getting children to sleep' doesn't work. I honestly tried!

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