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When I'm Sleepy (Picture Puffins)
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780140567595
ISBN: 0140567593
Label: Puffin
Manufacturer: Puffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 32
Publication Date: November 20, 2000
Publisher: Puffin
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Release Date: December 18, 2000
Studio: Puffin
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Editorial Review:
Ages 1-5. Now available in a large, sturdy board book edition, this enchanting bedtime story will soothe and beguile children and adults alike. As a little girl wonders what it would be like to sleep like animals do--curled up in a basket, or hanging upside down, or lying in a hollow log--the carefully detailed pictures show her peacefully slumbering as she rests on a cat's warm fur, hangs companionably next to a bat, and is lovingly held by a raccoon. Although many of the pictures are funny, the overall atmosphere of the book is tender, dreamy and (yawn) very soporific.
When you start to yawn...and yawn...do you sometimes wish you could curl up like a kitten in a basket, or a bird in a downy nest? Could you sleep standing up like a giraffe, or hanging upside-down like a bat? Little ones will love snuggling up with this soothing bedtime story and imagining how it would feel to sleep like their favorite animals-in the comfort of their own beds. "Warm and comforting.... A nice addition to bedtime story collections." -School Library Journal
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Simple, repetitive bedtime book, perfect to lull them to sleep
This book runs through a girl's thoughts as she falls asleep, imagining the different ways various animals sleep.
As she pictures herself in various forms of sleep, she grows more and more tired until she admits, at the end, that she's happy sleeping in a bed, like people do.
There's nothing more to it than that, it's just a short book for bedtime, that's all.
Rating: - Great Bedtime Story
This is a nicely done children's book with beautiful illiustrations by Linne Cherry. The prose of Jane R. Howard has a sing-song cadence, and is related one sentence a page. Each page pictures the young girl narrator in a different place sleeping, and in each page she is being held by a cozy animal. The story, wording and cadence are condusive to a good night's rest and will be perfect to settle kids down for beddy-bye.
J. Lyon Layden
The Other Side of Yore
Rating:  - A great going to bed book
What a great book. My 17 month old now runs to the stairs to go to bed and asks for "the sleepy book". The pictures are beautiful, the pages CAN'T tear, and she loves it. She stands when the giraffe page comes, but sits right back down with the owl. A nice change from Goodnight Moon which we read for 17 months!!!
Rating: - A Very Cozy Book
Jane Howard lulls us to sleep with soothing adjectives such as cozy, curl, stretch, yawn and warm, while we're drawn in by Lynne Cherry's illustrations utilizing brilliant colors and life-like imagery. This is a simple bedtime story that pacifies both reader and listener. It draws you in with the repetition of the phrase, "When I'm sleepy," and keeps you in a very tranquil mood until the very end. I read this book to my children in order to calm myself down. Days are hectic for both children ... Read More
Rating:  - good bedtime story for children who sleep alone
The book opens with a little girl lying alone in her bed, with her teddy bear. At first she is unhappy being in her bed alone at night, as she wishes she could sleep in various places in the world with the animals that live there instead. Places range from curled up with a bird in a nest to sleeping standing up in between two penguins on the ice. In almost every picture she is snuggled up with the animal. After going through various scenarios she states she is happy to be sleeping in her own bed with ... Read More
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