Sleep Like a Tiger (Caldecott Honor Book)

In sincere and imaginative dialogue between a child and her kind and understanding parents, the little girl decides “in a cocoon of sheets, a nest of blankets,” she is ready to sleep, warm and strong, just like a tiger.

The lyrical narrative echoes a Runaway Bunny–like cadence: “Does everything in the world go to sleep?” the little girl asks.

Artist Pamela Zagarenski’s rich, luminous mixed—media paintings effervesce with charming deta...