Hmmm... Billed as a sequel, this is perfectly stand-alone – but that's the only perfect thing about it. Julia and her animal friends are having a night's camping by the river (trigger warnings – naked flames and open water, neither with adult supervision!!) which is going swimmingly until she finds she's left her books at home. Luckily, the bear she found last time comes sailing past, and invites them along for his nightly raid on the local library. One problem is that his speech is so over-blown, high-falutin' and stuffed like a thesaurus, and that leaches into the sentences around his dialogue, meaning many of the target readers will struggle. Visually, it's both superlative and mediocre – the backgrounds and direction of the images is wonderful, and splendidly coloured, but the overly cartoonish characterisations are really dumb-looking. The pair of volumes so far both want us to engage with and share books and the reading experience, but I still think both are bang average examples, that won't feel like a waste of time reading, but that won't stick in the mind for long at all.

The artwork is beautiful. The story is simple and comforting, with gentle adventure and a love of reading. Some of the characters have distinctive voices- adults may be a little annoyed by Bertrand's pompousness, but children may well love him. The little bit at the end of the book about constellations was interesting, and may spark children to explore astronomy further.

The addition of a song which can be played on YouTube was an unexpected surprise.

This is a cute picture book. The illustrations are very nice and I think children will enjoy this book.

One of the most stunning illustrations I have ever seen for a picture book. For a child's book I found some of the words to be big ones depends if this book is read to them or on their own. Beautiful story about friendship and books. So well done.

This book was darling. The illustrations really made the characters come to live. I love the adventure of them going to find a book for a bedtime story. I think this is a perfect length book to read to a little one to hold their attention but still get a complete station.

A really sweet children’s book. The illustrations were perfection. Loved the story. Would recommend without doubt.