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Synopsis
The rhythmic text and the rich illustrations in Animals are Sleeping make it the perfect nap time story or bedtime book. Its short, lyrical text provides fascinating information, such as location, position, and duration of sleep of animals living in different habitats. This book shares the interesting sleeping habits of animals that live on land, in water, and fly through the air. Each new verse begins with a quiet, “Shhh . . . shhh . . . the animals are sleeping,” that will help children drift off to sleep—just like the slumbering animals. The satisfying conclusion will have children reaching for this book again and again.
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4-6 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back
40-60 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on the book’s homepage
eBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio
Children's Literature
A poetic, sing-song text flows throughout the pages of this tantalizing book. With a flip of the page, it is clear how several animals—including the flamingo, sloth, groundhog, polar bear, clownfish, lizard, seal, koala, and elephant—sleep in their own habitat. Listeners will learn that some animals sleep while standing, hanging, floating, perching, and curling up, and also that some sleep quickly and some sleep during the night while others sleep during the day. In the end, a special animal, the human child with whom the listener can identify, sleeps peacefully in bed with his kitten. A pleasant, repetitive "Shh.shh." plays to the interest of the listeners at different times in the text and makes this a perfect bedtime story. By the time the reader utters the ending words, "Good night, sleep tight," a listening child may already be doing so. Soft-edged illustrations are rendered in sleepy-time pastel colors. They enrich the beautiful text. Language arts, math, geography, and science are covered in sorting activities at the end of the book. Reviewer: Nancy Garhan Attebury