Pablo Can't Sleep

by Aur lia Higuet

Overview

"A cozy-enough bedtime story" - Kirkus Reviews

"Pablo the rhinoceros just can’t fall asleep. His friends are not particularly helpful. Add this one to your collection of bedtime stories. It has the familiar comfortable elements, yet it includes different animals. When was the last time you read a bedtime story about a rhinoceros? It can't miss!" - Blitstein Institute

"A cute book about how a rhino can't fall asleep because his friends are being too noisy. This would be a nice story time book." - Lorain Public Library System

Pablo is tired. But he can’t sleep because his friends are too busy or make too much noise. Angrily, Pablo walks off.
In the desert, everything is quiet at last.
But falling asleep is now completely impossible,
since Pablo feels alone and misses his friends …

An exotic and colorful story about friendship and sleeplessness.
For bad and other sleepers from 4 years up.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781605375892
Publisher:	Clavis
Publication date:	11/17/2020
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	11.42(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)
Lexile:	550L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 9 Years

About the Author

Aurélia Higuet is a young author and illustrator. She studied at several schools in Brussels and Ghent (Belgium), and in Bologna (Italy). Aurélia has loved reading and telling stories since she was a little kid. Her childlike imagination never disappeared and still comes in handy when she’s cutting, pasting and even playing with little characters out of paper in her atelier. She also likes painting, etching and drawing in sketchbooks. Her style is marked by colors, patches and simple compositions. To share her passion for illustration, Aurélia organizes workshops for children and teenagers in schools, libraries and bookshops. Her picture book Crocodile Is Hungry was awarded at the KeyColours competition 2014.

Editorial Reviews

"A cozy-enough bedtime story" - Kirkus Reviews

"This is a very warming story about friendship and sleep coming easily when friends stand by you forever. Good friends are extremely comforting in time of need. Illustrations beautifully express the emotions throughout the story." - ITEEA

"A cute book about how a rhino can't fall asleep because his friends are being too noisy. This would be a nice story time book." - Lorain Public Library System

"Pablo the rhinoceros just can’t fall asleep. His friends are not particularly helpful. Add this one to your collection of bedtime stories. It has the familiar comfortable elements, yet it includes different animals. When was the last time you read a bedtime story about a rhinoceros? It can't miss!" - Blitstein Institute

"This was a very cute and simple story about a cranky rhino who wants to go to bed but he can’t because his buddies are too loud. Haven’t we all been there? The pictures are simple but lovely, as was the text. I think this would be a perfect bedtime story for the younger crowd." - Tessa Reads Books

From the Publisher

2020-09-29
Can’t a guy get any rest?

Pablo is a tired rhino who wants some shut-eye, but he can’t get to sleep. His porcupine pal hugs him, and…well, a quill in his hide doesn’t induce sleepiness. Pablo seeks a soporific atmosphere near the pond. What he gets instead is a crowd of singing frogs. Will meditating in the forest help? Not if his tickling monkey pal has anything to say about it. Finally, the forest quiet prevails, and it looks like Pablo might fall asleep after all—until a malodorous friend arrives with foul-scented good-night wishes. That’s it! Pablo heads to the quiet desert, deciding it’s his last hope for a peaceful rest. Wouldn’t you know it? The silence and solitude remind him of his friends and all the fun they have together. Feeling lonely, Pablo returns to the forest, where his pals greet him warmly, helping him realize that good companionship solves his restless-night dilemma. This gentle but thin story, an import from Belgium and the Netherlands and translated from Dutch, reinforces the importance of friendship. But being surrounded by one’s bosom buddies at bedtime is perhaps not the message caregivers might wish their little ones to take to heart. The charming paper-collage illustrations are colorful, sweet, and atmospheric, conveying a good sense of settings and animals characters’ personalities. (This book was reviewed digitally with 8.3-by-22.8-inch double-page spreads viewed at 72.5% of actual size.)

A cozy-enough bedtime story—but nothing special. (Picture book. 3-6)

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