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32 pp.
| Simon |
September, 1999 |
TradeISBN 0-689-82250-2$$16.00
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Illustrated by
JoEllen McAllister Stammen.
Sleep is personified as animals--spinning a cradling web, creeping "on velvet paws"--while luminous illustrations start at dusk and end with starlight. The text turns urgent ("Please . . . Let [sleep] come!"), and the narrator is revealed as a father coaxing his child to sleep; a prosaic picture of dad reading this very book breaks up the rhythm and seems an odd match for the lyrical text.