Sweet Dreams of the Wild: Poems for Bedtime
As a child begins to fall asleep, she begins to wonder where wild animals sleep for the night and imagines a conversation with the wild creatures that gives her some answer. This, is the gentle premise of Sweet Dreams of the Wild, and original collection of poems by Rebecca Kai Dotlich that explores through richly detailed imagery how and where a variety of animals, birds, and insects like to sleep. The evocative colored-pencil illustrations...
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As a child falls asleep, she begins to wonder where wild animals sleep for the night and imagines a conversation with the wild creatures that give her some answers. This is the gentle premise of this original collection of poems that explores where a variety of animals, birds and insects like to sleep. Full-color illustrations.School Library JournalPreS-K-Cozy bedtime poems in free-style verse. In imaginary conversations, a child asks different animals and insects where they sleep and elicits their responses. There is a snug feeling to the poems, enhanced by soft colored-pencil illustrations of a cat curled up on a window seat, a spider swaying in its web in the garden, a robin nested by the window, a caterpillar wrapped in a silky cocoon, etc. Plenty of repetition makes this a good choice for sharing with young children.-Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY
\ School Library JournalPreS-K-Cozy bedtime poems in free-style verse. In imaginary conversations, a child asks different animals and insects where they sleep and elicits their responses. There is a snug feeling to the poems, enhanced by soft colored-pencil illustrations of a cat curled up on a window seat, a spider swaying in its web in the garden, a robin nested by the window, a caterpillar wrapped in a silky cocoon, etc. Plenty of repetition makes this a good choice for sharing with young children.-Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY\ \
