Sleepy Time

by Patricia Martin, Rocio Bonilla (Illustrator)

Overview

This comforting, snuggle-up book is perfect to read to young kids to develop calm daily routines.

It covers topics such as bathing, putting on pajamas, using the potty, brushing teeth, reading a story, and being afraid. With a parent as instructor, protector, and safe-keeper, this book is for every kid.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433831812
Publisher:	Magination Press, American Psychological Association
Publication date:	02/04/2020
Series:	Get Ready Board Books Series
Pages:	20
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	NP (what's this?)
Age Range:	9 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Patricia Martín is a writer, former literary agent and editorial director of Flamboyant publishing house in Spain. She is a winner of the Ciutat de Badalona Prize for juvenile literature. She lives in Spain.
 
Rocio Bonilla has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and a postgraduate certificate in Education. Her art combines illustration with mural painting. Rocio is the author and illustrator of several books, and What Color is A Kiss? was the  winner of the Spanish  Ministry of Education and Culture Best Book Award 2015. Her work has been translated and published in more than fifteen countries. Visit rociobonilla.com.

Editorial Reviews

This wordless going-to-bed board book if a cozy way to end the day… A sweet and simple look at bedtime.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2019-10-23
This wordless going-to-bed board book is a cozy way to end the day.

First published in Spain, the story follows a light-skinned, ethnically ambiguous child through the bedtime routine. Children from Western countries will no doubt recognize the protagonist's nighttime ritual as a mirror of their own, including bathing in a bathtub full of water and bubbles, using a Western toilet, and brushing teeth in front of a bathroom mirror. The child's adult caregiver is a loving secondary presence, there to wash the child's hair, read a bedtime story, and banish the monsters from under the bed—without ever drawing attention away from the child. Although the protagonist ends the book wearing pink pajamas and a barrette, laudably, both the child and the adult can be read as gender neutral. The ink-and-watercolor drawings employ a soothing, pastel palette ideal for creating a cozy, going-to-bed atmosphere. The images are full of movement and joy, and they provide the faintest outline of plot. However, the large amount of white space may hinder the book's appeal for repeated readings: It only takes a few reads to notice all of the details, and the lack of visual intricacy may limit possibilities for creative storytelling, something that is particularly important for image-only texts like this one.

A sweet and simple look at bedtime in the Western world. (Board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews