Synopsis
All ready for bed, a little girl lingers, listening to the night's enchanting music-birds flying, branches creaking, the radiator sighing, the evening singing.
With lilting rhythms and rhyming lines, this gracefully illustrated lullaby evokes that comfy-cozy time of night when sleep is still a blink away. Delightful and soothing, this book is a perfect addition to any bedtime ritual.
Author Biography: Jacqueline Davies lives in Massachusetts.
Kyrsten Brooker lives in Canada.
Children's Literature
When I was around five years old, my babysitter one evening was an old, Eastern European woman. When it was time for me to go to bed, she sat next to me singing lullabies in whatever her native language was. "When is this woman going to be quiet and leave me alone so I can go to sleep?" I wondered, until I finally figured it out—she was expecting me to be gently lulled into dreamland. I immediately shut my eyes and pretended to sleep. My point is this: I do not think kids really like lullabies. And I do not think they like books about lullabies, either. In this book, a girl wanders around her house in the evening listening to various sounds and calling them lullabies. It seems like a book a well-intentioned but not-at-all-hip grandmother would give; pretty pictures, poetic writing, but sort of boring.