Title: Ruth Ainsworth's Bedtime Book
Description: An excellent book for all ages, both children and parents. So many wonderful stories with many of the characters being repeated in further tales   as in "A Dolls House Story" of which there are six small stories. The same with the " Little Yellow Taxi stories." Altogether there is 140 entry's from rhymes to poems and tales.  Every page and there is almost 200, has an array of wonderful pictures. 
A fabulous introduction from Ruth Ainsworth herself expresses her feelings about the book and also her reasons for all the content. I do love her last paragraph as being a mother of five, grandmother of 19 and great grandmother of 8, I have much experience with bedtime stories. I quote :
"A child being read to is a happy child, but the blessing is on the reader, too. Such shared joys are unforgettable. Such hours come back again and again in memory, when the little listener has become the parent and reader in their turn. To be able to look back with delight on the lovely story times of their youth, and take care that their own children have the same delight."
Subjects: Children, stories, nursery rhymes, poems, alphabet's, riddles, Ruth Ainsworth, family
Places: Quite a few of the stories come from different lands.
Time periods: Ancient and modern I would say, as far back as Aesop and as close as Humpty falling off the wall.