A Bedtime Book for the Ages
Some titles—like my bedtime book Sleep, Little One, Sleep—never lose their relevance. Here’s what Booklist had to say when it was first published:“As night falls, a father helps his daughter fall asleep by describing, in lovely words and sweet images, what falling asleep is like. Moving from small to large creatures, he compares sleep to the actions of a spider, a mouse, a bird, a puppy, a lamb, and others: sleep is woolly like a lamb grazing softly around the bed; it’s an impatient pony stamping, stirring up the dust; it wants to plunge like a whale into the depths. Graceful illustrations perfectly unite the verbal and visual components of the book, as in the touching echo of the jacket illustration that shows a father dropping off to sleep in the rocker, his little girl still wide awake.”