My Review
Have you Seen the Sleep Fairy is a whimsical children’s bedtime story. The story has 24 pages of colorful illustrations with detailed expressions on the characters faces. Many of the illustrations are shown at odd angles, like a view looking up a stairway in the middle of the night. The author dedicates the story to his four children, and readers can easily imagine the author himself telling his children about a sleep fairy coming to visit at night and leave them a treasure under their bed. This could be a great book to help with youngsters who are resistant to stay in their rooms or go to bed when they are told. As a parent, I can appreciate any sort of help with the crazy bedtime routine that I can get. TKR’s illustrated bedtime storybook is an asset to family bookshelves everywhere.
About the Book
Published January 30, 2018 by Clink Street. This is the story of a sleep deprived mother and father who are rescued by this shyest of fairies, who only comes out at night when all the children in the home are asleep. She helps children get into the habit of sleeping through the night by leaving tiny items of interest under their beds for a around four days until she can trust them to sleep all on their own. Of course she’ll check in from time to time to make sure the family are sleeping soundly, however, you probably won’t ever see her.
After welcoming four children into the world within thirty-two months, the author and his wife are no strangers to the nightly struggle of getting their little ones all to sleep. After doing research into habits, they discovered that if they could get all their children into the same bedtime pattern for at least four consecutive nights then the battle might just be won. As a result, the helpful Sleep Fairy was born and has today been developed into a beautiful illustrated children’s book in order to help other families all finally get a good night’s sleep.
About the Author
Living in Chelsea, London with his wife and four children (aged 6,5,5 and 3 and a half) author Tod Kingsley Ridgway (a.k.a. T.K.R.) is no stranger to sleepless nights. When not writing children’s books, he runs his own business, Captivate Marketing (Pty) Ltd, an advertising and marketing firm specializing in corporate branding, collateral, advertising and marketing collateral. He is passionate about marketing, and building and developing brands. In his spare time Tod enjoys spending time with his wife and four children, trout fishing and plays golf off a low single figure handicap. He is an avid reader and enjoys reading marketing and innovation books, as well as biographies about great entrepreneurs like Phil Knight’s The Shoe Dog. He has a Bachelor of Arts undergraduate degree majoring in Psychology and English, and an MBA specializing in global business strategy.
Thank you to Authoright Marketing & Publicity for the early review copy of this book.
Librarian Laura 