Little Donkey Close Your Eyes - Softcover

Margaret Wise Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1445467380 ISBN 13: 9781445467382

Publisher: Parragon (Disney), 2012

Synopsis

Join animals from around the world, including a little monkey, some silly sheep, and an old black cat, as they end their busy days and close their eyes to sleep.

About this title

About the Author:

Few writers have been as attuned to the concerns and emotions of childhood as Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952). Her many classic books continue to delight thousands of young listeners and readers year after year.

Muy pocos escritores de literatura infantil han logrado captar las emociones e inquietudes de la niÑez como Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952). Sus numerosos y ya clÁsicos libros y grabaciones continÚan deleitando a lectores y oyentes de todas las edades.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 1?This tender, musical, onomatopoetic poem addressed to a sleepy child smoothly and soothingly slides along as each baby creature is gently exhorted to stop its activities and close its eyes. Some are winningly mischievous: the donkey makes faces, the monkey throws coconuts, the piglet squeals. Others are quietly sweet: the lambs graze, the wild birds peep, and the kittens snuggle. In a superb format each verse, in large, handsome type, is set on a black framed square perfectly integrated into the accompanying illustration and printed in a harmonizing color. These frames emphasize the bold, clearly defined figures, also outlined in black, on a rich nighttime palette of blues, greens, browns, terracottas, and purples. Details of the backgrounds impinge upon the frames, softening and varying the overall effects and drawing all of the elements into a unified whole. The settings vary from lush jungles to dry mesas to corn-filled fields to piney woods, representing areas throughout the world. Suffused with peace, beauty, warmth, and reassurance, the book is a bedtime gem.?Patricia Pearl Dole, formerly at First Presbyterian School, Martinsville, VA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Parragon (Disney)
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1445467380
• ISBN 13: 9781445467382
• Binding: Paperback