As mentioned last night in this post, Criminal Minds created a book for their episode There’s No Place Like Home. Agent JJ Jareau read her son Henry Bedtime For Baby Star and brought a tear to the eyes of millions. I have the inside scoop on the book and wanted to share the images with you here. I’ll be updating these later tonight with high res images but for now this is what I can offer. To be clear, this is the entire book, there were no other words or pages as it is a PROP.
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I think they should market it as a real book. Many viewers want it!!!
I saw this episode of Criminal Minds last night and really loved the book that JJ was reading to her son Henry. It was really touching. I loved it.
So I started to search the internet to see what book it was and if I could get one. Found out it was a book made up by someone who works at Criminal Minds. Brilliant. We love your show and think it’s the BEST show on running. We don’t miss an episode. Will you be creating any of the books? If you do I would love to get one. Please let me know.
Thanks.
I really wish they would make Bedtime For Baby Star into a real book. I would absolutley love to have it for my children.
I have 4 grandsons and another one on the way. I have dozens of books that I have read to them as they grew up. My youngest is 6 and oldest 13. This scene made me cry and it brought back all the memories of me reading to my 3 adult kids when they were young and my now 4 grandkids. They all know how to read now so the books are in boxes. We have another baby boy on the way. He arrives in January and I would love to have this book to read to him especially since it was created by one of favorite shows. I will read the story of Baby Star to our six year old but the best is yet to come when our new baby arrives. My Grandkids live with me now and they are my Joy. Thank you all and as soon as the book is done, please let me know. Thank you and have a GOOD NIGHT. From Grandma Reina in Christmas Florida
I have been searching for this book since Wednesday evening. I finally got wind that it was a story written for this episode. Well the author is amazing. It is better than and bedtime story that I read my boys age 2 and 3. I was in tears after hearing JJ recite the words to Henry’s favorite bedtime story. Are they going to publish any of this book. I would love to buy one and would recommend it to any other mother as well.
Hi, I love Criminal Minds–have been watching since the beginning. I think this book should be marketed. I cried. I have a nephew who is 4 1/2 months old and the book sounds adorable. Market it for sales. Please…..
i WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THE BOOK FOR MY GRANDDAUGHTER. WISH YOU GUYS WOULD MAKE IT A REAL BEDTIME BOOK FOR CHILDREN. I REALLY LOVED THE STORY SHE QUOTED!!!!!!!
I also have been searching for this book, then came across this post. I am expecting a baby boy January 31st and wanted it for our little baby star.
If this book was to go into production, I would LOVE to have it. I have saved the recording and will write the story down just so I can read it to my little man. This is also one of my absolute favorite shows and have been watching since day one.
what beautiful words. please publish it.
I was really hoping to get a copy of this book to save for my someday grandbabies! I am sure that it would sell very well! It was so touching to listen to JJ “read” it to Henry…what a beautiful scene!
I love the show Criminal Minds, #1 on my DVR to record. The story JJ read to her son, Bedtime for Baby Star, needs to be a real book. I would love to buy it for my grandchildren. Made me cry.
Bedtime for Baby Star must be published. Donate the profits to a children’s
charity. That way many lives can be touched by this beautiful story.
Criminal Minds, the best show of TV ever! The episode with JJ reading to her son, Henry, was the best. I love the book! Any chance that it will ever be published? Please, please, it is so beautiful. I would love to buy a copy and read it to my youngest grandson and the the 5 older ones too. Please make it available. Thank you.
Since their throw-together book will never be published, you can try another author with a similar book on the shelves right now…
“Twinkle, Twinkle, You’re My Star” by Sandra Magsamen
Don’t get down, go check it out. A Grandmother who already did my homework : )
I want this book for my nephew!!! What can we do to get them to produce it!!
I love the show Criminal minds….I record it when I can’t sit down to watch it. This bedtime story just melted me. I would love to get it for my granddaughters….please publish it.
The story JJ read really touched my heart. My daughter is named Starr and I called her “Baby Starr” when she was little. Now she is Starrbaby.
Would love to have this book for her when she has children.
Love this book. will buy 4 if you print it..
I absolutely adore this book! I’d love to be able to add it to my collection of books for my future children. Please publish it!
Loved this bedtime story and my granddaughter would love it as well. Please publish it.
I looked and looked for this book. It should be a real book.
I would love to get my hands on this book.Love the show.its my favorite.Please,please publish the book!
Hi, I am from China,Beijing.
I have a daughter,3 years old. She is living with my parents in Shengyang, another city in China,about 800 kms far from Beijing,the city I live. I miss her very much.
When I saw this episode, I cried.
I want to say thank you. Thank you for your moving words.
Please finish the book.
Hey there is a book like it that some of the words were pulled from its call ill love you forever
As the story begins, a son has just been born. The story then continues through the life of the boy until he is a grown man. The mother continues to rock her son to sleep singing “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be.” Later, the role is reversed and he holds his elderly mother and says “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my Mommy you’ll be.” At the very end of the story, the mother passes away and her son is the father of a little girl, rocking her to sleep; singing the same song that his mother used to sing to him.
Thank you.
We have the book you mention, Love You Forever, which we were introduced to, before we ever had kids. It has always been one of our favorite bedtime stories.
But this poem — written for a TV episode, of all things — has a unique resonance for me, as I think you may understand. Years ago, we lost a child we never had the chance to meet, one we and our two boys have actually come to know by name, as Baby Star. This was a very sad chapter in our lives, but one that has a pretty cool ending. It’s a bit of a long story, perhaps, for this venue, but one I suspect would have an unusual, and yet somehow familiar ring to it.
My thanks to the one(s) who wrote the poem for Criminal Minds.
I watched this episode, and just like many other views, I researched the book. I so want criminal minds to make a full version and sell it. It brought tears to my heart and would love to read it to my children. It hits close to my heart. I grew up in the military, and I am a Police Officer. This woul be the perfect book to read at bedtime, even when I am not at home with my children.
Interestingly, as much as I like the show and this poem, I noticed the prop book, Bedtime for Baby Star, as produced for this episode, appears to have a typo in it. If I’m not mistaken, JJ correctly (at least, more poetically) recites the end of the poem, over the phone as, “…because you’ll always BE my baby star.” Whereas the printed book, as briefly shown onscreen, reads, “…because YOU’RE always my baby star.”
One of those trivial inconsistencies that malcontents love to point out, the discrepancy is easily explained, since the character is supposedly quoting the book from memory, she could easily miss the phrasing — except the version JJ actually recites makes more sense and has an easier rhythm than what happens to be on the page. If they ever decide to publish an actual book, I guess they’ll have to choose.
I absolutely love to watch Criminal Minds. My 13 year old son was watching this episode with me and saw me in tears as JJ read to Henry. I told him I wanted the book for christmas and nothing else. I immediately went online searching and we went to all the book stores in town the next day but could not find it. I had saved the episode so I could write the story down and decided to do another search. That’s when I came across this post. Please, Please publish this book. I would love to have it to add to my collection for my children and their children and their children . . . . .
I love the version JJ recited “…because you’ll always BE my baby star.” Sounds much better!
I just love the show and this poem I wish they would make it into a book it is so cute I read it to my Grandson before he goes to bed. Please make it! Everyone will buy it like me. =)
I very much enjoy watching Criminal Minds and have done so since the show first aired and really loved the poem/book Bedtime For Baby Star and wish it would be made into a book as I would certainly buy it to read to my grandson.
Love the show and the book.
I watch Criminal Minds since it first aired and I don’t know how I missed this one but JJ’s bedtime story to her son was just awesome and I was looking for it in print to share with my grandchildren and found out it was only part of the story line. Pleases pleases put this in print it a piece to be share for generations……
loved baby star bedtime story made me cry , my 16 year old son left home today to go to college, so will be sending him a copy of this so he knows how much i love him.x
I love Criminal Minds, it is my all time favorite show and I have never missed an episode. But I must say, I loved the episode where JJ (Jennifer Jarade) is reading the story “Bedtime for Baby Star” to her son, Henry. It brought tears to my eyes. I love the book and I was wondering if there’s a chance that it will ever be published? Please make the book available to us., because it’s a beautiful story. I would love to be able to share the story with my grandson who is 4.
Thank you.
Just saw the rerun of this episode last night. The book VERY STRONGLY resembles one that was given to us for our daughter… “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch. Hope this helps!
Let me know if this book is every published.
This episode brought tears to my eyes. I wanted to purchase the book for my grand kids. I was so disappointed to hear that it is not a real book. Please let me know if it is ever published.
I live the show I watch it all the time and I love story jj reads to her little boyand would to have the book
I agree with everyone who sent a message. I must have this book for my grandchildren. Maybe if we all sign a petition they will publish it. Think of all the money that can be made. If the money doesn’t interest the writer think of how you could help a charity for children, like MDA or St Luke. Publish it for the children, it could save one of their lives.
If this was offered as a book i would definatly buy one! Even if that is all there is to it is that 1 page. I love it!
I am not sure that I could say anything to help this book be published, I almost died 3 years ago. My recovery has been long and hard and still on going. I look at my son and I want to have a different life for us. I want him to remember the special moments we shared. When JJ was reading to her son, it touched my heart in away I could never explain. Yes, I two cried when I heard Bedtime for Baby Star! So I have been looking for this book, I hope to be able to fine it one day.
Criminal Minds, I love your show and this is one more reason to love you! Inga
I would love to have a copy of the poem Bedtime for Baby Star. It is a winner just like Criminal Minds. Lori
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