The cover of this book evokes its mood; sleep should be a good and relaxing part of each day.  Unfortunately, that is not always the case.  This book tries to help by addressing the issue of sleep from many perspectives, starting by explaining concepts such as the stages of sleep. 

This gorgeously illustrated title (with lovely quotations) includes chapters on everything from your bedroom, to getting ready for bed, to falling asleep and, even waking up, plus even more.  This is an excellent and broadly based resource that hopefully will help readers to finds those zzzzzzs.


Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title in exchange for an honest review.

I cannot get this book to download onto my kindle, so will keep it at 3 stars. Seemed really interesting!

Unable to view this on my kindle as it does not give me the option to do this. Hopefully this will get sorted as I was looking forward to reading it.

Before I even talk about how much excellent information is contained within this short book, I must talk about the artwork. This could be one of the most beautiful books I've ever read - the graphics are stunning and pair perfectly with the topic.

Beth has done a wonderful job in this short-but-very-sweet book in offering useful and practical advise on getting the best from our sleep routine. I have a page scribbled full of notes and have already begun implementing some of the suggestions. To my delight, after only a single day of making changes, I already feel like I have a better grasp of my own sleep pattern and how to improve it to make sleep work for me. This morning, I woke before my alarm for the first time in a long time. Particularly in these crazy lockdown times, this was the thing I didn't know I needed.

As a lifelong napper (like Beth!) I was overjoyed to read the section on naps and how to ensure these are useful and do not hinder my sleep pattern in the evenings. Thank you, Beth, and I hope many, many others take as much positivity as I did from this book.

As someone who's struggled with sleep for a long time because of various things including chronic illness.
I'm always looking for different things to help me get a good night's sleep, so when I saw this book on Netgalley I knew I wanted to read it.

This book is filled with detailed, helpful advice, and goes into the science behind what our bodies need from sleeping.
It caters to a variety of different sleepers, and explains everything throughly in a way that's easy to digest and understand.

On top of that, this book is one of the most beautifully illustrated I've ever seen, and I'm wildly tempted to get a physical copy.

Highly recommend this book, especially if like me, you struggle with sleep.

I really enjoyed this book! It is a quick read but very informative! Beth Wyatt covers a lot about sleep health and sleep hygiene. I actually really enjoyed the illustrations in the book as well, they are relaxing to look at. She covers using meditation and deep breathing as tools to help a racing mind at night as well as other peaceful bedtime activities and things to do to prepare for bed. Beth really highlights how we tend to thing of being tired and wanting to sleep as a bad thing when it should actually be something we really pay attention to. If you're tired midday, nap. If you're yawning and ready for bed ay 730pm, go to bed. There is no point acting like a hero and staying awake well beyond the point of being tired. If you struggle with sleep and have insomnia as I do, I recommend checking out this book.

Love this glorious guide to better sleep! I sure have troubled zzzzzzs and want to get eight hours of good rest nightly. THE CALM AND COZY BOOK OF SLEEP offers a host of strategies to do just that. You’ll learn sleep basics, calming routines and natural aids for better rest. How to sleep well with or without partners and pets. How to go to sleep easily and get back to sleep if interrupted. Author Beth Wyatt is a Sleep Coach who shares how she conquered her own insomnia, with effective tips that will help you too. And the illustrations? Lovely! 5 of 5 Well-rested Stars!

Pub Date 04 Aug 2020

Thanks to Quarto Publishing Group-Rock Point and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are mine.

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This is a beautiful book with simple guidance to not only understand your sleep and what’s important about it but also simple steps to help you sleep better and introduce little changes to improve the quality of your sleep and in turn improve your overall health. The book also contains some beautiful illustrations and quotes which really added to the feel of it. This would make a great gift for someone I think.

An interesting guide to getting a good nights sleep.I found it a calming guide .Many good ideas techniques to give us the much needed good night Of sleep.Really enjoyed reading new cozy ideas for a good nights rest.#netgalley#quartobooks

I felt sleep reading this book because read a book is what makes me sleepy. I used to take a while to sleep but once I started reading a book before bed it helped a lot. This book is very pretty and colorful and it has lots of tips to help you calm down and sleep better. There are some techniques and lots of thing you already knew but all the tips are together in this book. I already do most of the stuff in this book but different than what the book says, taking a hot bath or shower right before bed makes me refresh and then I sleep even faster.

I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

The Calm and Cozy Book of Sleep is an introduction to sleep, combined with a practical guide for improving sleep quality. The writing is gentle and easy to read, and though it doesn’t go into a lot of depth, I left the book feeling motivated to make some positive changes.

The book is split into eight sections with actionable steps, each consisting of a topic area and subheadings so it’s easy to look up a particular point. Between sections there are beautiful break pages with a quote and gorgeous artwork in the style of the front cover. Even the pages of text are pretty, with patterns around the edges. The ebook copy didn’t do this justice, and I expect that the physical version is a treat to flip through.

The book begins by explaining the author’s own journey with sleep, and I imagine that many people will be able to relate (I did). The advice and suggestions are not accusatory or judgemental, it’s about accepting and working with where you are now. Each technique and why it may help is explained in a clear way, and most of the ideas don’t require any additional resources. Some of the advice resonated more than others, and I expect that what helps varies for different readers. But with such a range of tips to try, hopefully most people will find something useful for them. Everything that someone who wants to improve their sleep needs to know is covered in this book. There are a lot of recommendations on the internet which sometimes contradict each other—all this information can be overwhelming, and it’s good to have it summarised in a book written by someone with plenty of experience.

As someone who has read a little around optimising sleep before now, I found the content relatively basic, though there were some ideas that were new to me. I still found that the book is a good reminder of the most useful points of sleep theory, and having just finished reading it, I’m motivated to make some positive changes. I’ve also found my new favourite sleep-time meditation in this book—it’s much simpler than the one I usually use, while still being a visualisation.

Overall, this is a great introduction to sleep, its science, and how to improve sleep quality and feel more rested. Many of the principles are simple but effective. As what helps is different from person to person, it’s great to have such a range of things to try, and the advice is practical and easy to implement. I’d heard of most of the principles before, but this book is still a good reminder. It would likely be more helpful for someone who is new to sleep theory and improvements, but it is still a useful summary for anyone who is already working to improve their sleep.

Thank you to Rock Point and NetGalley for providing an Advance Review Copy, which I have reviewed voluntarily and based on my unbiased opinion.

As a really bad sleeper due to chronic pain I was really interested in this book. I got a few tips to try but most of it I already knew. It is a beautifully presented book and some people might really like having a lot of sleeping tips together in one book.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

The title of this book immediately caught my attention - I'm a type 9 and we are all about being calm, cozy, and peaceful. The illustrations in this book are absolutely beautiful, I wish I had read this as a physical copy instead of a digital copy because I'm sure they are even more stunning in person. As far as the content goes, the majority of it I was already familiar with but as I'm not a great sleeper, it was a nice refresher. I did learn a few things, particularly about timing within the sleep cycle, and overall I appreciated Wyatt's perspective on sleep.

If you are a sentient being on this planet, then you probably have trouble sleeping some nights – a global pandemic, race riots, a mad man in the White House all add up to insomnia. While Wyatt’s book doesn’t really offer anything groundbreaking or new, it has soothing illustrations and a reassurance that all will be well. Something we all need to hear right now, whether it’s true or not

As a ‘bad sleeper’ myself, this was such an interesting book to read. It provides a lot of good tips to make sleeping your priority, to make it into something you like to do and not something you have to do,... I will definitely try to incorporate some of these tips into my daily night time routine.

Thank you NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for providing me with this copy in exchange for an honest review.

Unable to download no matter what I try so unfortunately can’t review, but really wanted to read this. Not leaving a bad review due to this error.

I have insomnia and was interested in this book because of that and the intriguing cover. I'm not sure if these techniques will work but the info was super interesting.