Jan Thomas (Is Everyone Ready for Fun?) creates the perfect bedtime setup: a "brave cowboy" out to yodel his cows to sleep with a little bedtime melody under the stars.
The only problem is that he keeps interrupting his own song with not-so-brave exclamations about all the things he sees in the dark. "Eeeeek! Is that a huge hairy spider over there?" The level-headed cows come to the rescue: "It's just a flower, cowboy." Of course, those mysterious shapes and shadows are not what they seem--until they are. But even the wolf in this book wants a lullaby. Thomas's signature bold outlines and blocks of saturated color will appeal to even youngest readers, and the typography--which gets larger and smaller in its speech-bubbles as the action requires--gets the emotions across. This book's great structure, friendly artwork and potential for read-aloud silliness are sure to make this a favorite far beyond bedtime. --Kristen McLean, former head of the Association of Booksellers for Children, founder & CEO of Bookigee