This poetic book from a debut author will help youngsters wind down at the end of the day as nocturnal colored-pencil illustrations take them on a tour of nature's denizens heading to bed.
"See the moon? It's sleepy time," the book begins under a star-studded night and crescent moon. "Let's look for little beds/ and find where all the little ones/ lay their sleepy heads." A round-faced squirrel tucks into the hollow of a tree. A bear cub "nestle[s] in a cave." A beaver backfloats amid flowering lavender water lilies, its path lit by fireflies and the moon's reflection. An owl breaks the rhythm, poking out of a barn loft ("This one's not a sleepyhead--this one slept all day!"). A puppy and kitten slumber by the hearth, "but where's the sleepyhead" that belongs in the soft bed next to the teddy bear? Littlest ones will love finding the child "asleep in Mama's arms." --Jennifer M. Brown, children's editor, Shelf Awareness