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Summary
What better way to encourage a little one to sleep than with a soothing rhyme and image after image of sleeping animals! This gentle picture book introduces the sleeping habits of many animals - from puppies to whales - and compares them to the sometimes-unusual habits of human babies. In backpacks, on knees, in cradles or trees, sweet babies can sleep anywhere!
Author Notes
Lisa Wheeler is the author of several award-winning picture books, including Sixteen Cows and One Dark Night , as well as Mammoths on the Move , which received a Parents' Choice Recommended Award. She is also the author of Abrams Appleseed's Babies Can Sleep Anywhere . Lisa lives near Detroit.
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
Baby-Toddler-A clever lilting text describes the many ways and places that various animals get some much needed rest, whether cuddled up in a nest or in a den beneath the ground. For each animal example, a human baby is shown peacefully napping. The children are shown in backpacks, strollers, in a mama's or papa's arms, even snoozing in a highchair. The soft-focus slumbering creatures, gently warm palette, and repeated refrain should convince even the most -reluctant sleepers to close their eyes. © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Wheeler and Bzio contrast the resting places of animals with those of human babies. The rhyming verses are gently somnolent: "Sloth stretches out in a moss-covered tree. / Cougars curl up in a lair. // Whales settle down in the deepest blue sea. / But babies can sleep anywhere." This pattern holds throughout, showing three animals at rest and then a babe asleepin this case, atop a father's belly while the two float in an inner tube. Other spots include a woman's arms, in a backpack baby carrier, inside a bucket at the beach, and slumped over the tray of a high chair. The final spread celebrates the different places babies can rest, though readers may be disappointed that all those mentioned in the verse aren't pictured ("upside down!"). Amid the old standbys Wheeler nicely includes some less-familiar (and less-loved) animals: wolves, mole, skunk, and moose, for example. Bzio's flat, posterlike scenes tend toward the graphically simple, animals described by salient features and babies with just line eyes, noses, and mouths, their cheeks tinged with pink scribbles. Skin colors are notably diverse, and the ending scene is particularly strong, showing couples that are gay and interracial and a woman in a headscarf. Bzio's palette is strong in mint, lemon, salmon, and red, lending a retro feel to her illustrations. Yes, babies can indeed sleep anywhere, and perhaps this book is the way to get them there. (Picture book. 2-5) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
