The getting-ready-for-bed book that Kirkus Reviews called “empowering” and “nicely child-centered” is finally a board book!


The endearing siblings of Theo Heras’ and Renné Benoit’s Hat On, Hat Off and Baby Cakes are back in a sweet celebration of bedtime. Humor, helpfulness, and heart combine as Baby’s big sister helps to see him—and, of course, his stuffed bunny—through the nighttime routine from cleaning up toys to bath to bed. Little listeners will connect with familiar sensory language of warm, tickly water and blanket snuggles. Preschoolers can chime in with Theo Heras’ brief, descriptive text, and children of all ages will enjoy Renné Benoit’s watercolor and digital art, full of big baby faces and warm pastel colors.


A final spread shares a bedtime checklist to help make bedtime a happy time for the whole family.

Illustrated by: Renne Benoit