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Boy, that bed really does look comfy doesn't it? Author Amy Krouse Rosenthal's tone in this tale is pitch perfect.

By having a protagonist who's sole goal in this story is to bed down for the night you, the reader, really feel for him. The craziest thing about "Little Hoot", and I don't know why I was so surprised by this, was that it actually made me crave sleep. And before his mother and father can engage him in a drink of water or a bedtime story, "Little Hoot was already fast asleep." Finally, after counting down the last ten minutes of play, Little Hoot is allowed to go to bed. "If you want to grow up to be a wise owl, you must stay up late." On this particular night Little Hoot begs to go to bed but his mom lets him know in no uncertain terms that he must stay up one whole hour before she'll let him sleep. Every night Little Hoot wants to go to bed at a reasonable hour like his other non-owl friends, and every night it's the same story. What he doesn't like, however, is bedtime. Like most owls he goes to school, plays with his friends, and practices his pondering and staring. Here's how a normal day is for Little Hoot. Overall, I'd probably only recommend this if it were given with the other two books. but it doesn't seem to work as well here as it did in the other books. So the young owl occupies himself for the required number of minutes and then goes to bed. Little Hoot's parents say he has to stay up for one more hour and play before he's allowed to go to bed. And the story seemed like it was over so quickly in this one. The illustrations are cute (I like Little Hoot's hooded sweatshirt) but they're not quite as engaging as those in Little Oink. But I don't get the need for fourteen exclamation points on the end of one sentence.) For some reason, though, this book was riddled with nonsensical dialogue tags and extra letters and punctuation that come across as way too casual for a published book. I can usually turn to Amy Krouse Rosenthal's books for some solid writing and storytelling. I've read the other two books in the series ( Little Pea and Little Oink) and thought they were really cute.