About This Book:
A dreamy treasure trove of thirty bedtime poems to snuggle over together—and return to night after night
When night arrives and the birds swoop home to nest, it’s time to have a bath, put on pajamas, brush teeth, and settle in for sleep. This soothing collection of Sean Taylor’s original verse and rhyme for the very young explores the ritual of bedtime with warmth, tenderness, and gentle humor. Thirty poems in many styles, from shape poems to free verse to ballad poems, are divided into three sections. From sleepy bats to dreaming ducks, from a favorite blanket to the chugga! chugga! of a dream train coming down the tracks, these imaginative variations on a timeless theme—brought to life in soft, shimmering illustrations—resonate with pure emotion, inviting sleepyheads of every stripe to indulge in sweet dreams.
*Review Contributed By Karen Yingling, Staff Reviewer*
Quiet Collection of Soothing Poems
Every family needs to have a collection of books about bedtime so that the right mood can be captured on the right night. Sometimes a book holds up to repeated readings, like Boynton’s The Going to Bed Book, and others are good to dip into and read favorite parts. This is a great book to have on hand along with Hopkins’ classic Night Wishes or Bushel and Peck’s collection of classic Favorite Poems for Bedtime. If you’ve memorized Stevenson’s Bed in Summer, you can whisper that to the children as you pull the covers up and kiss them goodnight.
