Sleep Tight Sleepy Bears

Sleep Tight Sleepy Bears

This beautifully illustrated magical story from best-selling author Margaret Wise Brown - creator of the children's classics 'Goodnight Moon' and 'Runaway Bunny' - will enchant children and parents alike; it's a perfect bedtime story for your little one.

Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. Even though she died over 45 years ago, her books still sell very well. Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading. She wrote all the time. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them. She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper. Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. She had many friends who still miss her. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense.

We now have a new, favorite bedtime story at our house. This sweet story uses the power of suggestion to help little ones get ready for sleep. Much like the old song, "Cool Water," made the listener thirsty, "Sleep Tight Sleepy Bears" makes the listener's eyes get heavier and heavier after each page. Our five little grandchildren were here for a few days recently, and we read the book to each of them. The older ones wanted to hear it every night.

This book provided by the publisher, at no cost, for my honest review. Max Elliot Anderson https://middlegradeadventureandmystery.blogspot.com