Loved reading this book. Amazing story and the characters lend to the charm of this book. I would highly recommend this book. You would not be disappointed. Granddaughter loved this story

Through the use of beautiful illustrations the author shares the goodnight love to help young children fall asleep. These soothing meditative passages might even help some adults fall asleep faster. The book uses deep breathing and a warm light to help the child wind down and fall asleep faster. And sloths are nice slow animals so they help as well.

"Goodnight Love" is a new bedtime story for young readers. The story features various animals getting ready to go to sleep. It focuses on mindfulness, kindness and being safe & protected.

This was a lovely children's bedtime book, although we added our own words to this story. The book is all about keeping others and the world in our hearts and prayers. Each page had the same prayer or meditation, "May ____ be healthy, May _____ be safe and protected, May _____ be happy and peaceful." As we read this instead of saying my loved one, or my friends, my granddaughter told me names. The illustrations were wonderful. With the mother and child being a sloth, the recipients of their meditation/prayer were other animals and nature. This book is filled with reminders to love yourself, those around you (friends and family), including our world. There are notes at the end of the book about the practice of guided meditation and ways to begin a practice with your family, if that is something you would like to do. I used this book as a bedtime prayer instead. I found it to be very calming and perfect to settle down for a good night's sleep.

It has been a while since I read some picture books and today, I was stuck for books as the past two days, everything I tried was just not grabbing me - they were boring me. I knew that a cute picture book would do it. Goodnight Love was a very cute book about meditation named Metta which focuses on aspects of kindness and thanking everything around them. The book starts with a cute sloth who is getting ready to go to bed, but before he could go to bed, he decides to go through his practice of metta. Goodnight Love is the perfect picture book for children aged 3-6 years old and helps children learn to appreciate everything around them and take a breath and acknowledge the beauty around them from the mountains to the jungle floors and most of all love from family and friends. The other thing that was great about Goodnight Love is the book follows repetition with the metta mantra that helps children to think positively every day. Goodnight Love is also beautifully illustrated by Laura Watkins and is a book that all parents should have in their children's book collection.

Cute read for little ones to help wind down at night. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous. I was excited to read this with my two little ones who tend to be bouncing off the walls at bedtime. They were captivated by the pretty pictures. When. They're a bit older I think they'll really love the meditation that the book walks through.

This is a bedtime story for children wrapped around the eastern religion practice of meditation. With beautiful illustrations and repetition to help the child remember the “chant” the story is well written and serves well the purpose for which it seems to have been written. Without telling a real story, the pages themselves lend themselves to getting the child to relax and sleep well as he/she considers all of creation and all who touch their world.
Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are my own.

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. A great picture book for a parent to give to a child on Valentine's Day. Each animal says goodnight to their child.

This was a lovely, lovely children's bedtime book.
Filled with absolutely gorgeous illustrations [sloths and other animals, along with stars and lakes and so much more], this book is told in simple verse to call one to bed and to redirect the mind towards sleep. Filled with reminders to love oneself and those around them, including everything found in nature, it also reminds us to keep others in our hearts and to wish them health and happiness as well.
There are notes at the end of the book about the practice of guided meditation and ways to begin a practice with your family and I found them to be very helpful.
This book is perfect for families with littles [and not so little] that have trouble going to sleep or quieting down for sleep as it will help them develop practices that will calm them and remind them of love and caring and others.
This was just lovely; I am so glad that I read it.

Thank you to NetGalley, Sumi Loudon Kim, Laura Watkins - Illustrator, and Shambhala Publications, Inc/Bala Kids for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Loved this book! The illustrations were just gorgeous. The message was what our world needs more of, spreading kindness to ourselves and others. I will be adding this to my home library for sure.

Dreamy illustrations match bedtime meditations, making a new, relaxing bedtime favorite. Engaging prompts teach your little one, self-love, appreciation, gratitude for others, as well as nature.

This was a beautifully illustrated book. It had a very sweet story about wishing love on the things all around us and meditating on that. We are not big on meditation in my home, but I do have some friends who are and that I think would love this book for their little ones!

This is a really cute children's books about thinking on kindness as you go to bed each night. Sending kindness to yourself, your family/friends and the earth. A great reminder for everybody!

✍🏻 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧: Sumi Loundon Kim
🎨 𝙄𝙡𝙡𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧: Laura Watkins
🔢 𝘼𝙜𝙚 𝙇𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡: 2-5
📖 𝙋𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨: 32

Thank you to the publisher for the digital Arc

I love meditation so much that I use it often in my classroom: sometimes to calm anxiety before a test, sometimes to destress after big assignments, randomly to take a brain break. We have talked about the power of breathing. This gem of a picture book blends a mantra with breathing into a beautiful synergy of self-love and self-care. I absolutely LOVE how cute and whimsical the illustrations are. The sloths are the focal point, but the landscape and other animals are rendered with the same light and love.

I highly recommend this one for anyone who loves sloths, values meditation or needs a soothing and relaxing novel to help them fall asleep (especially littles).

This is a children's book that I read to my twin boys. I really liked the pictures in this book. I found the story itself to be boring and it kept saying the same thing. My boys started making up their own story to go with the pictures while I was reading this book to them. I received an ARC of this book. This review is my own honest opinion about the book like all my reviews are.

Parents and Grandparents are always looking for an outstanding bedtime book. Well, you don't have to look any further. Goodnight Love by Sumi Loudon Kim is a TREASURE. A bedtime book with a sloth mother and baby, for goodness' sake who doesn't love sloths?! The illustrations obviously are beautiful and captivating but the cadence, the soothing rhythm is so beautiful I put my hand over my heart while reading the prose. The lovely writing is basically a love letter to the world, for us to stop and take stock of the beauty of it all and then give a blessing for health, safety, protection, happiness, and peace. This book as I was reading kept thinking about children in recovery from abuse that lived in harmful places and that hopefully they could finally be safe and have this as their bedtime book.

When you get to the end it all makes sense because the author explains METTA Meditation and that's basically what the entire beautifully guided book is meditation. May we all have this in our lives for us and our loved ones but especially children to know love in their life. There is a guide on how to practice this and also how the book came to be.

I would like to thank the author for not forgetting about the children for she was inspired by a booklet Seeding the Heart: LovingKindness Practice for Children. Also the exquisite art by Laura Watkins. so stunning, it draws you in and you are there in this beautiful meditation blessing.

I would like to thank NetGalley and the publisher Shambhala Productions for the opportunity to read and review Goodnight Love by Sumi Loudon Kim and Laura Watkins for creating an absolutely exquisite and much needed bedtime book and may we all remember kindness and love for all humans, animals and all nature.

This is a sweet little, beautifully illustrated book about bedtime meditation for children. Children, parents and caretakers will enjoy this book for a bedtime story. Public libraries will find it a desirable acquisition as well.

Wow….what a breathtaking story that teaches us about Metta ( lovingkindness meditation). The illustrations are so beautiful as well. It is a sweet bedtime story that guides us step by step on how to meditate by loving the world around us. What a great way to teach kindness, empathy, and gratitude to little ones. Can’t wait to buy a physical copy and take this book home.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Goodnight Love is a very calming and sweet meditation story. Not only does it walk you through Little Sloth's daily routine, it teaches you how to make your own. Highly recommended for a very calming bedtime story with a purpose.

The illustrations are amazing. I cannot wait to bring a physical copy of this book home.

Thank you to NetGalley and Shambhala Publications for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Such a sweet, soothing, and approachable first introduction to lovingkindness for young meditators. My children loved the mantras and I have heard them repeating them during their day. Lovely pictures and a wonderful, innovative way to mediate with your children before bed.

Thank you to NetGalley and Shambhala Publications for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.