Bedtime for Sweet Creatures

Name: Bedtime for Sweet Creatures
Brand: Ingram Book Company
SKU: 9781492638322
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By Mike Allegra

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Summary

Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Mike Allegra is a delightful children's book that follows an imaginative bedtime routine between a mother and her child. As the child begins to resist bedtime, the mother playfully transforms the evening into an enchanting adventure, incorporating various animal characters. Through its vibrant illustrations and rhythmic text, the book captures the magic of bedtime storytelling and the love shared between parent and child.
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Format: Hardback

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You might enjoy this delightful children's book if you are looking for a heartwarming bedtime story that combines gentle rhymes with vibrant illustrations. It beautifully captures the imaginative adventures of a young child's bedtime routine, making it a perfect read for calming little ones before sleep while nurturing their curiosity and creativity.

Bedtime for Sweet Creatures

Nikki Grimes, Coretta Scott King Award winning author, and illustrator Elizabeth Zunon's latest children's masterpiece creates an imagination-fueled journey to bedtime.

Description

Bedtime for Sweet Creatures is the latest children's masterpiece by Nikki Grimes, a Coretta Scott King Award-winning author, in collaboration with acclaimed illustrator Elizabeth Zunon. This enchanting book creates an imagination-fuelled journey to bedtime, complete with delightful animal antics.

It's bedtime. But Mommy's little one is not sleepy. He growls like a bear, questions like an owl, and tosses his mane like a lion. He hunts for water like a sly wolf and hides like a snake. Mommy needs to wrangle her sweet creature into bed so that the whole family can sleep.

From tigers to squirrels to snakes, the little boy dodges around his bedtime, until he is tired enough to finally sleep. His imaginative animal friends weave their way through the illustrations, eventually joining him in curling up for the night.

For those seeking children's books about diversity, this loving depiction of everyday shenanigans is sure to become a bedtime favourite. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures is an African American children's book that celebrates imagination, playful moments, and the love between a Black mother and child.

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Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Grimes and Zunon is praised for its vibrant illustrations and imaginative storytelling, capturing the lively yet familiar bedtime routine of a child who resists sleep. The book is celebrated for its empathy, creativity, and the way it portrays familial love, with a refreshing conclusion that many young readers and their parents will recognise.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781492638322

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 January 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky

Contributors:

Illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 290.0mm

Height: 222.0mm

Weight: 470g

Pages: 32

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Mike Allegra Young Adult

About the Author

New York Times bestselling author NIKKI GRIMES is the recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, the 2017 Children's Literature Legacy Award, the 2016 Virginia Hamilton Literary Award, and the 2006 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, among many others. Grimes lives in Corona, California. Find her at nikkigrimes.com. ELIZABETH ZUNON grew up in West Africa and now lives Albany, NY, where she draws, paints, collages, sews, silkscreens, makes jewelry, and ponders the endless possibilities of chocolate. Her work is largely influenced by the people, places, and things from her childhood in the Ivory Coast as the product of two cultures. Visit her at lizzunon.com.