My feed
Premium

Please
or
to access all these features

Join in for children's book recommendations.

MNHQ have commented on this thread

Children's books

Children's book club - Bing: Bed Time by Ted Dewan

39 replies

RachelMumsnet · 02/01/2014 17:21

You may remember a comp we ran last year to celebrate the publication of Bing: Get Dressed. We're delighted that the second Bing story - this time Bing: Bedtime is kicking off the New Year as one of our Jan children's book club choices. Share the ups and downs of everyday life in this playful pre-school series from award-winning picture book creator Ted Dewan.

Find out more and apply for one of 50 free copies. If you're one of the lucky 50 you will be notified on Tuesday 7 Jan and once you've had chance to read the book we'll ask you to post a review or let us know what you think on this thread.

Children's book club - Bing: Bed Time by Ted Dewan
OP posts:
ConcreteElephant · 03/01/2014 22:18

Oh, I hope we get this one. Several times a week I find myself saying 'Good for you Bing Bunny!' in response to something DD has said :)

ItStillLooksLikeRainDear · 03/01/2014 22:23

Sounds lovely.

PSG1968 · 06/01/2014 18:03

We read Bing get dressed & loved it so fingers crossed as would love to read as a family the sequel!!

AliceMumsnet · 07/01/2014 15:26

This giveaway is now closed. We will notify those who have been selected via email and they will receive a free copy of the book.

AliceMumsnet · 17/01/2014 11:31

For those who were lucky in our giveaway, your copy should be with you very soon. Whether you won in our giveaway or bought a copy yourself, once you have read the book with your DC we would love it if you could post a review telling us what you thought. Smile

Happy Reading!
MNHQ

MummyBtothree · 24/01/2014 18:16

I still haven't received my copy :(

verap · 24/01/2014 18:29

I still havent received mine :-(

NewBlueShoesToo · 24/01/2014 20:36

Hooray at last. All my children have loved Bing books and nobody has heard of them.

ConcreteElephant · 25/01/2014 08:09

Still not received here either - looking forward to it though.

buckleymichael · 26/01/2014 15:57

Hi still not received my copy x

StillNoFuckingEyeDeer · 27/01/2014 13:59

My copy arrived today! I'll be back once we've read it.

BlackSusie2004 · 27/01/2014 23:24

I eventually got the Bing book today (not Mumsnet's fault, I know they'd passed my details on straight away). Initially I was a little concerned when I saw on the first page, the reply to 'Ready to Read?' was 'Yup!'. I do try very hard not to introduce any slang type words to my little one's vocabulary and didn't really want this becoming the word of the moment.
Anyway, I managed to skip that page, which wasn't difficult, and was pleasantly surprised with the rest of the book, and we recognised a few things from bedtime in our home! We both agreed that Bing was very cute, but we are bunny rabbit lovers in our home anyway!

MrsRedWhite214 · 27/01/2014 23:30

Hoping mine arrives soon, love reading new books with my son!

Yasmin1 · 28/01/2014 18:34

Received my copy yesterday and read to my little four yr old at bedtime. She loved it. So much so, that I've had to leave it by the bed so we can read it again today! She thinks Bing is cute. It's a good book for little ones especially if you are trying to get them into some routine at bedtime. The book is easy to follow, bright and colourful. Thanks for sending this. Good book for little ones.

verap · 29/01/2014 10:54

Still waiting for my copy, hope it arrives today!

verap · 29/01/2014 12:33

Nothing today then.....

Lent1l · 30/01/2014 12:24

Received the book yesterday and it has already been read cover to cover several times.

I am not too keen on the fact that the words "Yup" and "Nope" are in there but to keep it fresh we vary what we actually read each time from the page (DD 23 months).

She likes the pictures and seems to enjoy the book.

llewejk · 31/01/2014 10:55

I received my book this week and read it to my daughter a couple of times. She loves the illustrations.

I also wasn't keen on the use of the words 'Nope', 'Yup' and 'Yuck'. So I have modified this when reading the book to my daughter.

A good bed time book which we will read over and over again.

MrsRedWhite214 · 31/01/2014 17:37

A good book about bedtime routines with lovely colourful pictures to keep my son interested. Like others, I wasn't too keen on wording, but for me it's great to talk around the pictures anyway.

UniS · 31/01/2014 23:39

After a long wait, I was underwhelmed by Bing Bed time.

It's just another bedtime routine book, the teddy gets lost, the child doesn't want to get its PJs on or use the potty. Ok, this child is black rabbit rather thana brown bear or a tussled toddler but its just another bedtime story.

I'll pass my copy on to SiL for smallest niece, its too young for the Year Rs at school.

StillNoFuckingEyeDeer · 01/02/2014 11:48

Apart from some of the language - Nope, Yup - as others have said, we enjoyed this.
We don't have any other bedtime routine books, so for us it was a new idea, but I can see that it's unlikely to be a unique story.
We loved the pictures and found it easy to follow. We've read it a few nights now and DD1 isn't bored of it.

firawla · 02/02/2014 02:12

I wasn't bothered by the yup and nope!

My younger two children enjoyed it. It is pretty simple which is ideal for them (age 2 and age 4 with asd and delayed understanding of language), it was a bit young for my ds1 age 5. He still wanted to join in and listen to it though, but it is more suited to the younger ones. He did like the flow chart at the end about different orders in which to do the bedtime routine.

It's the first time we have heard of Bing. Overall, we liked him :)

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

JimmyCorkhill · 02/02/2014 14:02

Always love receiving a free book so thank you Smile

My DD1 enjoyed it but not greatly, think it is better for younger children (she's almost 4). She is much more used to lengthy stories now. I will save it for DD2 (10 months).

We don't have a bedtime routine book so it was lovely to recognise 'our' routine in a book.

I liked the yup and nope. We don't say this but it's always fun to play about with language.

A lovely book but definitely for the under 3s. We will enjoy revisiting it with DD2 soon.

spacebabe103 · 02/02/2014 16:17

My daughter is nearly 17 months old and loved the book. It was very bright and colourful with great illustrations which she enjoyed pointing at. The story itself was a good length for a child of her age and I am sure that we will be reading it very regularly from now on. Thanks :)

Tailtwister · 02/02/2014 18:02

We received our copy yesterday. I have never come across Bing before and both DS2 (3) and I loved the story and fabulous illustrations. Although simple, the story is really effective and allowed DS to join in. He was especially pleased when he spotted Flop under the bed.

Like other reviewers, I wasn't particularly taken with some of the words used, but I just changed them myself as I read. I thought it was a lovely story which reflects all the comings and goings we have at bedtime in our household. I think it will become a favourite!

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.