When nightime approaches, all the world is ready for sleep. The small kitten yawns at the hearth, the lambs in the field close their eyes, and a young child waits for a goodnight kiss. Margaret Wise Brown's tender rhymes and Esphyr Slobodkina's patchwork-quilt motif artwork gently and lovingly illustrate each letter of this sleepy, bedtime alphabet, first published in 1953.
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PreS—With lines like "I is for me who is going to bed," and "X is for all of the things you can play," it is hard to find much good to say about this lackluster offering. Katz's characteristic round-headed multicultural babies wander through the pages, along with sheep, bunnies, and a variety of typical bedtime accoutrements. The brightly colored mixed-media illustrations are likely to appeal to young children, and the combination of Brown's name and the word "sleepy" on the cover will probably sell the title. Nonetheless, this uninspired mix of bedtime and alphabet book fails to do justice to either genre. Buy extra copies of Goodnight Moon and some of Karen Katz's board books and pass on this one.—Amy Lilien-Harper, The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT
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Fans of Brown and Katz’s A Child’s Good Morning Book (2009) may want to close their days with this companion alphabet lullaby: “A is for Aaaah when a small kitten sighs / B is for Baaaaaa when the lambs close their eyes.” Katz’s interpretation of Brown’s text (last illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina in 1994) is joyful and energetic and features her trademark, round-faced, multicultural children, rendered in collage-like art, bouncing around a sunshine-bright room before they finally catch their Zs in a very realistic bedtime pattern. Likely to be just what little not-yet-sleeping beauties will want. Preschool. --Andrew Medlar
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Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. Even though she died over 45 years ago, her books still sell very well. Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading. She wrote all the time. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them. She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper. Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. She had many friends who still miss her. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense.
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ABC-ZZZ SLeepy,
By ROBIN M ZAK TOTH (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sleepy ABC (Hardcover)
What a great way to re-inforce the alphabet than at the end of the day, with great animals and mom too! This books takes the "a" in yawn through the "Z" in zzz... sleep, and is full of things toddlers love, animals, mom tucking them in. My little one adds her favorites ( K is for Kate, that's me!) just before bed.
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TA,
This review is from: Sleepy ABC (Hardcover)
Great book! I had borrowed it from the library, but my 2 and 7 year olds liked it so much that I am going to purchase it. The alphabets are striking and so are the pictures, provides many nice clues (moon and stars in couple of pages, babies, animals closing their eyes, kids getting back to home to go to sleep etc) that make my kids ready to sleep :-) PLUS my little one is mastering his alphabets.
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