PRESCHOOL
Bertram, Debbie

My New Big-Kid Bed

(4) PS Illustrated by Taia Morley. An exuberant child is excited to try his big-kid bed until a scary shadow breaks his confidence. Bright candy colors give way to dark, moonlit spreads as the child tiptoes through his home seeking comfort. Despite the text's clunky, forced rhymes, parents may share this model of successful self-soothing with their newly big kids working toward this developmental transition.

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