Sleepy Book - Hardcover

Zolotow, Charlotte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851244573 ISBN 13: 9781851244577

Publisher: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2016

Synopsis

Bears spend the winter months slumbering deep in dark caves. But they’re not the only wild animals with strange sleep habits. Horses do it standing up in stalls or fields, their tails switching at troublesome flies. Seals like to stretch out their flippers when settling in to sleep. And your dog or cat probably curls up quite happily in a cozy box or basket.
           
Sleepy Book by Charlotte Zolotow invites young readers to explore bedtime in fields, forests, and other places animals make their homes. In the book, children will find many familiar favorites, like a flock of birds huddled for warmth, but they’re also sure to make new friends, from a snowy crane standing on one long leg to a tiny black spider fast asleep in its web. Each facing page contains a beautiful illustration by Vladimir Bobri.

Originally published in 1958, Sleepy Book is one of the most recent additions to the Bodleian Library’s children’s book imprint, and it’s the perfect story to read before saying goodnight.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Charlotte Zolotow (1915–2013) was an author and editor of children’s books. Her best known books include Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, with illustrations by a young Maurice Sendak; My Grandson Lew; and William’s Doll.Vladimir Bobri (1898–1986) was an artist and illustrator, whose work appeared in many children’s books, as well as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, McCall’s, and other magazines.
 

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 3 A very special goodnight book which delightfully and harmoniously places children in nature. ``Bears sleep in their dark caves the long winter through.'' Other animals and insects sleep also, and finally, little boys and girls ``sleep warm under their blankets in their beds.'' Each double page is a meditation on one kind of sleeper, with colored pencil drawings so wonderfully soft that they seem to have been rubbed into the white pages. Some of the creatures' sleep is easy to imaginekittens stretched out purring in the sun, for example, but others are not. Fish, ``among the green water ferns with their eyes and mouths wide open,'' challenge children's very idea of sleep. Plume's full-page drawings on the right are windows into a great green room of childhood from which human sleepyheads can look outward onto an enchanting world of nature. Her top and bottom borders on the left pages frame the spare, poetic narrative. This is a newly illustrated edition of a 1958 book that might just find its way to a spot next to the classic Goodnight Moon as a child's favorite way to end the day. Anna Biagioni Hart, Sherwood Regional Library, Alexandria, Va.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1851244573
• ISBN 13: 9781851244577
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 36
• Illustrator: Bobri Vladimir