This is an adorable children's book to help get your little ones into a nighttime routine. It covers all the bases with wonderful illustrations. I'll be making sure my kiddo follows along with Dot as they get ready for bed together.

Oh. I was all for applauding a book about how we should all, old and young, prepare and settle for bed, but this wasn't it. A ladybird (ladybug if you insist) called Dot enters a bug hotel (cool, those are trending so kudos for that) and greets all the inhabitants and sees to it they're ready for bed, which they are apart from the twist at the end, and for all the problems. One of the critters has a welcome mat that is indoors facing him when he leaves home, and not outside to face the welcome guest when she arrives. Someone "wraps" on a door, in my digital copy at least, which clearly shows what she thinks about the recipients of her presents. Dot then proceeds to barge in on someone having a widdle, so thinks nothing of joining in, and everyone flies off without washing their hands, or feet, or any bloody extremity – and when you have six or eight, or even fourteen as it's a woodlouse involved, that's an even bigger sin.

Oh, and the twist at the end is that none of the bugs are satisfied without barging down Dot's door and giving her a right old seeing to to make them happy and ready for bed. I jest a little – but not as much as you might presume. With the visual craft here this should have been a hit and no mistake, a sure-fire success, a no-brainer bedtime read. As it is it's just creepy, weird, dodgy and wrong. Hence the one star.