Nikki Grimes, Coretta Scott King Award winning author, and acclaimed illustrator Elizabeth Zunon's latest children's masterpiece creates an imagination-fueled and animal-filled journey to bedtime.
A fabulous interpretation of an everyday battle."--Booklist, STARRED review.
As such, children will engage with the pajama-clad tot's antics and be soothed by the book's positive tone. "
The mother's loving understanding is demonstrated by how she works with her child's rich imagination, never slipping into admonishment.
His imaginative animal friends weave their way through the illustrations, eventually joining him in curling up for the night.
From tigers to squirrels to snakes, the little boy dodges around his bedtime, until he is tired enough to finally sleep.
Mommy needs to wrangle her Sweet creature in bed so that the whole family can sleep.
He hunts for water like a sly wolf, and hides like a snake.
He growls like a bear, he questions like an owl, he tosses his mane like a lion.
But Mommy's little one is not sleepy. a loving, effective lullaby."--Publishers Weekly, STARRED review It's bedtime. "[A] rhythmic, playful romp through a restless child's Bedtime routine...
Nikki Grimes, Coretta Scott King Award winning author, and acclaimed illustrator Elizabeth Zunon's latest children's masterpiece creates an imagination-fueled and animal-filled journey to bedtime
