FICTION

While You Sleep

by Jennifer Maruno (text) & illus. by Miki Sato

Pajama Pr. Nov. 2022. 24p. Tr $17.95. ISBN 9781772782677.

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PreS-Gr 1–This lovely picture book shows what one parent tells her little one as she’s going to sleep. The text is written in peaceful rhyming couplets, while warmly colored collage illustrations show the tidying up that goes on while people rest so that the world will be ready when everyone gets up the next day: dusting the butterflies and stuffing the clouds. It’s a cozy, positive bedtime story sure to please parents and children alike.

VERDICT A comforting story for kids who wonder what they’re missing by going to bed.

Reviewed by Debbie Tanner , Oct 28, 2022

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