Customer Reviews

Shhhhh! Everybody's Sleeping

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My 2 1/2 year old son loves this book. We took it from the library and now I'm here to buy it since it enjoys it so much. It's a simple read, and short enough for a toddler bedtime. The premise is that each page shows another person sleeping, but people children would know. Like the teacher is sleeping (surrounded by school things), the librarian is sleeping (with books around her), policeman, etc. My son likes to see everyone sleeping, and the illustrations are gentle and have enough going on so we can talk about what he sees. For instance, in the picture for the pages on the Farmer is sleeping, he's using a sheep for a pillow and one of his socks fell off. My son thinks that's pretty funny. And at the end, a little boy just like him is shown going to sleep. I highly recommend it, especially for kids that don't want to go to sleep!

My 21-month-old daughter loves this book. She asks me to read it every night before bed. It is short and engaging enough for young toddlers, but would appeal to older kids as well. It only has two short sentences per page and is beautifully illustrated. I don't even mind reading it over and over.

It is too bad that this book seems to be out of print. My daughter just loves it. I had checked it out from the library and had to buy my own copy. It goes through the town and talks about everyone who is asleep and then tells the child it is time to be asleep also. All with delightful pictures showing what the people, such as baker, librarian, teacher, zookeeper, do. For a child like mine who fights sleep to the best of her ability this is a great book!

This was a nice book with nice pictures but it has a lot of gender stereotypes. I had to choose a children's book for school and write about the different gender stereotypes and this is one that stood out the most to me. They could have used different words as someone else mentioned.

I like this book. The story is cute and the illustrator really took care to make sure that the illustrations depict different aspects of each job. I saw someone complain on another review that the characters are gender stereotyped. I didn't notice this when I read, only after reading the review.

my 2 and1/2 old son loves this book...it is his one of the favorite bedtime storybook... the pics r beautiful..

This is the most wonderful book! Beautifully illustrated and simply written but witty enough for parents. My 20 month-old adores it! To the author and illustrator - Please write more of them!

This deceptively simple book is a really wonderful bedtime book. The rhythmic text is easily chanted, and the large, colorful full-bleed pictures effectively represent each character's job through their surroundings and stuffed animals. (The fireman has a dalmation, for example.) A soothing bedtime story for children from 6 months to 2-3 years.

I bought this for my 2-year old granddaughter. I read it to her on my last visit. She seemed to like it, but it wasn't the book she brought to me most often for reading.

This is a lovely book filled with rhyming words and intricate pictures. That said, the language and identity of the characters shows bias. I would prefer the book to say "police officer" and "fire fighter" and have pictures of men and women in those roles. This book is very gender rigid with women in the roles of librarian, teacher and baker; and men in traditional men's roles. I change the words when I read it to my toddler but the pictures still reinforce the gender stereotypes.