BEDTIME!

Between space-saving beds in cupboards and floating astronaut beds with straps for those in outer space, bedtime is different for everyone throughout the world in this colorful, informative tale with an array of fun-filled bedtime facts.

Ruth Freeman Swain has been a preschool instructor and taught creative movement. She is the author of two books illustrated by Cat Bowman Smith, "Bedtime!," a National Council of Social Studies Notable book, and "Hairdo!: What We Do and Did to Our Hair,": which Booklist praised as "an entertaining, informative picture book," and which Kirkus Reviews call "a cut above." A native of Pennsylvania, Ms. Swain now lives in Maine.

Cat Bowman Smith’s critically acclaimed artwork adorns more than forty books, including Joshua the Giant Frog, Feliciana Feydra LeRoux, Feliciana Feydra LeRoux Meets D'Loup Garou, The Rosie Stories, Old Granny and the Bean Thief, Just One More Story, Bedtime, and Hairdo, among many others.

Ms. Smith lives in Pittsford, New York, with her pup Daisy. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1961. She was an editorial illustrator for Rochester Gannett newspapers, and taught illustration at R.I.T.

She has been “drawing since she could hold a pencil in her hand” and has been illustrating trade books since 1985.