Sleep Tight (Picture Puffins) - Softcover

Hennessy, B. G.

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9780140543254: Sleep Tight (Picture Puffins)

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ISBN 10: 0140543252 ISBN 13: 9780140543254

Publisher: Puffin, 1995

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As they are tucked into bed and everything around them is ready for sleep, two children see what a special place their house becomes

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From School Library Journal

Pre-K-- Hennessy's entrancing verse bears the requisite rhythm, rhyme, and brevity needed in a bedtime read-aloud. She begins simply with the lines ``Night time/ Quiet time/ Read our favorite book time,'' drawing listeners into the evening routine of the featured family. After Mom tucks the children into bed, the narrator asks ``Who is sleeping?'' and the rest of the book consists of a mesmerizing litany of various creatures and objects, some of which are inanimate, that ``sleep.'' Children will naturally understand that shoes and socks sleep in dresser drawers and soap sleeps in the bathtub. The focus of the book starts broadly, listing items outside the children's home, and then narrows to consider objects within their bedroom. The shift in focus not only heightens the intimacy, but also serves to settle the energy of the story, until the parents' final bid goodnight. Carnabuci's deeply hued opaque paintings extend the calming effect of the words through their shadowy tones and restrained composition, while a mixed use of soft and hard outlines gives a dreamlike quality to them. In keeping with the quiet energy of the poem, only a couple of lines of text rest uncluttered against each half-page expanse of white space. A nighttime soother, likely to lull sleep-resistant toddlers to slumberland. --Dorothy Houlihan, formerly at White Plains Public Library, NY
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From Publishers Weekly

The illustrations in this lilting bedtime poem, said PW, "evince both the muted softness and the shimmering colors of Renaissance tempera paintings." Ages 2-6.
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