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Bloom, Suzanne

A Number Slumber

(3) PS After engaging readers with rhyming questions about their own nighttime routines, this enjoyable, alliterative poem counts down from ten while describing the bedtime activities of "other sleepyheads" (various animals): "Ten terribly tired tigers tiptoe to their beds. / Nine normally nimble newts rest their sleepy heads." Bloom's eye-catching compositions with whimsical details are rendered in luminous pastel on deep blue backgrounds.

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