The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Escoffier, Michaël

Sleep Tight, Charlie

56 pp. | Princeton | September, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-61689-599-0 $17.95

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Kris Di Giacomo. In this French import, Charlie is a curmudgeonly rabbit with exceptional sensitivity to noise; this makes it difficult for him to sleep through a bird pecking, a squirrel munching, and so on outside his window. With zany cartooned depictions of the animals in a muted, grayish palette, Di Giacomo injects humor into a repetitive-patterned text centered on Charlie's bedtime ritual. We've seen picture books like this before.

Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin