01/11/22
I could analyze📉 so much since I have not only read and acquired it, but I have also chatted👥 with Marina both on the radio📻 and up close, but I think it is worth🏅 to get it and discover it🔎 for yourself.😉
Starting with the evening 🌙routine approaches the subject of 🌟sleep ✅simply & ✅understandably. This, however, does not mean that writing it was an easy task. And in this book Marina👩🏻 has dealt with the smallest detail, having consulted a team of experts💡 (which you can see in the acknowledgments🙏 at the end of the book.)
➕I like it that the illustration is equally involved in the story and everything is sleeping: sofa, laptop, etc. as many children notice👀especially the pictures🖍️ and it alienates them when it doesn't completely agree with the plot📃.
➕And once again❗ I will say - as in the first book - how much I liked the participation of the father 💙 in the process.
➕ I should also mention the double reading of the book for breastfeeding children and non-breastfeeding children.
➕ Let's say in closing somewhere here that these days 🌄 the re-edition 🎉 of her first book 📗 ( Last Goulitsa ), which came back renewed 🎁, took place.
17/10/22
Undoubtedly a unique fairy tale!
" (...) I would like to emphasize that I personally appreciate that this particular book mainly deals with the night awakenings of infants and young children in general. It is also useful to remember that at night only those children who are breastfed wake up. In general all mammals and children wake up so this is a normal process that takes time to change. Changes in the frequency of awakenings as well as the amount of them are largely dependent on the child. In simple words, this means that each person has their own growth rate so each baby needs to be given time until the awakenings stop. I like that in the fairy tale this message is "passed" as well as that the upbringing of the child is done and from both parents. Observing Irini Thanou's illustration, you emphasize the role of the father in raising the child. With such beautiful drawings, it is like to "enter" the little hero's house. In addition, the gathering of the parents with the toddler is another "taboo" for many Greek families. With this particular fairy tale, I think it's time to break the taboo on children's sleep. Opening the fairy tale, the reader sees that the whole family sleeps together. What a nice picture! How true!