Sleep, my bunny

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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English

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From the treasured creator of Max and Ruby comes a soothing, quintessential lullaby of a book for the very young.The owls and the crickets are singing together.Outside the window, night falls in a vivid, expressionistic ode to Van Gogh. But inside the cozy house, in rooms lit with soft pastels, parents guide their little bunny through a universal routine: eating supper, putting toys away, taking a bath, reading a story, listening to a song. With gorgeous artwork and a simple poetic narrative offering the perfect script for a reassuring voice, Rosemary Wells gently ties nature’s rhythms to familiar ritual, creating a bedtime read-aloud certain to lull every small child into slumber.

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9780763692629
076369262

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Published Reviews

Publisher's Weekly Review

A swirling night sky contrasts with the cozy indoors in this original lullaby from the creator of beloved siblings Max and Ruby. The spare text has an appropriately lulling rhythm as it moves from poetic whimsy ("The morning is hiding behind the next cloud") to a final invocation ("May the noises of evening be gentle and airy./ Let nothing be scary and nothing be loud)." The illustrations provide the greatest delights in scenes that follow a preschooler in a snug country house through dinner, bath, stories and music, and a final tuck-in, all with the help of two loving caregivers. Wells's genius is in conveying preschoolers' emotions and family moments with artful accuracy, and in these pages, the small bunny's enthusiasms and the family's tender, joyful bonds are irresistibly clear. Small spot drawings, linked to either words in the text or objects in the accompanying illustrations, provide an added opportunity for a seek-and-find game, while the dark, moonlit outdoors, viewed through each interior scene's windows and rendered in Van Gogh-like swirls of dense, contrasting color, adds another exciting dimension to this reassuring gift to sleepy bunnies everywhere. Ages 2-5. (Nov.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Horn Book Review

The night wind / has taken / the moon for / a ride." A little bunny goes through a nighttime routine, including dinner, bath, storytime, and bed. Wells's color-saturated mixed-media illustrations bring her lyrical, gently rhyming text to life. The familiar activities play out under a dappled night sky, offering closure to the day. (c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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PW Annex Reviews

A swirling night sky contrasts with the cozy indoors in this original lullaby from the creator of beloved siblings Max and Ruby. The spare text has an appropriately lulling rhythm as it moves from poetic whimsy ("The morning is hiding behind the next cloud") to a final invocation ("May the noises of evening be gentle and airy./ Let nothing be scary and nothing be loud)." The illustrations provide the greatest delights in scenes that follow a preschooler in a snug country house through dinner, bath, stories and music, and a final tuck-in, all with the help of two loving caregivers. Wells's genius is in conveying preschoolers' emotions and family moments with artful accuracy, and in these pages, the small bunny's enthusiasms and the family's tender, joyful bonds are irresistibly clear. Small spot drawings, linked to either words in the text or objects in the accompanying illustrations, provide an added opportunity for a seek-and-find game, while the dark, moonlit outdoors, viewed through each interior scene's windows and rendered in Van Gogh–like swirls of dense, contrasting color, adds another exciting dimension to this reassuring gift to sleepy bunnies everywhere. Ages 2–5. (Nov.)

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