While reorganizing and cleaning our bookshelves a book that we used to read to our kids surfaced. It’s a tactile book with very heavyweight pages. Not quite a board book, but close enough that Hectic Grandson can’t tear the pages easily.

Good Night, Sweet Butterflies encases nine plastic butterflies that rise up off the page. When the book is closed, none of the butterflies protrude beyond the cover. Open the book though and the magic begins. Each page focuses on one one vibrant color ranging from yellow to green to red to pink. On each page, the butterflies rise up to great the eager young reader’s fingers. They are glittery and very inviting to exploring toddlers. The illustrations are very dynamic, and never fail to make me grin at the antics of the characters on the page.

As you turn each page the number of butterflies diminish. It’s fascinating to watch how the differently colored butterflies all fit the color scheme on each page. While writing this review I kept flipping back and forth to see how the colors blended. It was amazing to me that on the blue page all the butterflies look perfectly places and matched to the color scheme, and yet on the very next page they also conform to the color scheme despite it’s pink & purple tones.

The text is a little above what Hectic Grandson seems to understand, but honestly I don’t think he cares. The book has so much to offer from a visual and tactile perspective that he’s perfectly happy to let me read while he goes exploring. The pages are a bit thinner than his board books, and he’s struggled a bit at turning the pages, but persistence pays off and he usually manages to flip the pages to his liking. While this is supposed to be a bedtime book, it’s now sitting in the cubby next to my work desk with Hectic Grandson’s other favorites. He regularly clears the shelf and spreads his books around him. Since the discovery of Good Night, Sweet Butterflies it’s the one that he’s engaged with the most.

It seems that I’m saying this with every review, but this is another book that we both enjoyed and is a definite keeper!