BEDTIME KISSES by KARIN LARSON

TITLE: BEDTIME KISSES
AUTHOR: KARIN LARSON
ILLUSTRATOR: GINGER NIELSON 
PUBLICATION: 4RV PUBLISHING
ISBN-13 : 978-1- 940310-15-2

This sweet little picture book consists of cute illustrations and  a sentence to go along with nearly each of the illustration.

It is a story of a little girl who bestows kisses on her stuffed toys before she herself is kissed and lovingly tucked in for the night by her mother. The number of kisses that she plants, increases by the toy and boy does she have a variety of the stuffed toys! 

Most of the illustrations are cute but I liked the grouchy hog's illustration the sweetest of the lot. Another thing that I liked about Ginger Nielson's illustrations is that she has not gone out of her way to make the little girl look beautiful, her focus has been on the toys and the affection that the little girl has for them.

The book portrays the affection that the child has for her toys and her sweet night time ritual. I would say it is more of a girls book. It is a picture book that can also be used for practice reading.

 I  had to check out a few of the animals for myself, that make up the little girl's stuffed toys, because I was not so sure about them. The book not only expands the kids knowledge about the animals but also augments the vocabulary of the reader as the author has used adjectives for few of the animals.

The author, Karin Larson is a children's author and a freelance writer, also a speech/language pathologist. She is a graduate of the Institute of Children's Literature.

Ginger Nielson, is a full time children's book illustrator and author. I found her short introduction different and also interesting. 

The target age group of the book is 0 to 5 years.