Shushybye Review and Giveaway

How many of you out their struggle with getting your little ones to go to bed at bedtime?  Especially right now with the start of school and getting back to the normal routine of a normal bedtime?
I know we struggle with putting the kiddos in bed over and over and over again.

I was sent the above pictured Shushybye book with CD to review as well as the Shushybye Dream band Shushybye and Goodnight Cd with 16 songs.

I have to admit I made a mistake of not listening to the music first and right away when I put the CD in the player my 4 year old(5 now) got up and started dancing.  Ok, not what we were expecting and only after that mishap did we realize the CD is not meant to be lullabies to lull your child to sleep but rather to get them excited about going to bed and dreaming!
Once we realized the errors of our logic(I mean really, if you can get lullabies to put a 4 and 7 year old to sleep I would love to see it, lol) we determined to try again with the new approach of starting the music as part of the nighttime routine.  It gets the girls excited about the prepping for bed and the process of thinking about what they want their dreams to be.
  Then we whip out the book and read together.
The book is about the Shushies that live high above the clouds in Shushybye.  Shushybye is the land where dreams are made and it is the job of the Shushies to deliver Dream boxes to the children that fall asleep when they are told.  Unfortunately for Snoozles he is assigned to two children: Leo and Leona, that just won't go to sleep when they are told.    Snoozles is sad because the kids dreams are still inside their dream boxes in Shushybye. 
The story goes on to explain this to the kids and takes them on a tour of Shushybye including a stop at the train station to see the Dream boxes get loaded for delivery by Conductor McCloud.  After that the kids could not wait to fall asleep when they were told so they could get their Dream boxes.

The music is pretty upbeat though so is also great for longer car rides. The songs can get repetitive but I have to admit they are one of my preferred kids music cds for the car and I do find myself mouthing along the words.   It is also one of the few cds my kids can actually agree on listening to so that is a bonus!  If you want to hear a sampling of the songs, you can go here and a clip of each song will play for you. (As a game in the car, you can even have the kids count the number of times they say the word Shushybye, trust me if you need a little silence in your car this works GREAT ;)

Now for the giveaway:
One reader will win a book and cd as well!
Mandatory entry - Please go to Shushybye and tell me one feature you love about the website.
(make sure you check out the fun here too!  They have virtual puzzles online your children can do, how cool is that, flex your kids brain muscle and give them computer skills at the same time, can you tell I personally LOVE this feature!)
Extra entry(void if you don't do mandatory entry first)  Like my page on facebook here.  Leave a separate comment for this extra entry letting me know you like my page.
Giveaway will close September 5th and winner will be selected via Random.org

*Disclosure:
I was given a free book and cd to review and the opportunity to give one of my readers one as well in a giveaway.  No other compensation was provided and all opinions as always are my own.