The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

McGinty, Alice B.

Ten Little Lambs

32 pp. | Dial | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-2596-5 $$14.99

(3) PS Illustrated by Melissa Sweet. "Ten little lambs who won't go to sleep. / What will they do all night?" Wrestle, build skyscrapers, paint the bathtub walls, and explore, for starters. This rollicking, rhyming countdown to sleeptime features ten exuberant children (pictured as lambs during the rumpus) who get the most out of the evening until one by one they all doze. The watercolor and colored-pencil art has an appealing childlike quality, with plenty of details.

Reviewer: Susan Halperin