I'm Still Up!

by Antoinette Portis, Antoinette Portis (Illustrator)

Overview

A soothing and humorous bedtime story with a baby who is still up! This is the ideal book for baby to read before lying down to sleep.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780358178033
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/18/2022
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	22
File size:	52 MB
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Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Antoinette Portis is the author and illustrator of the international bestseller Not a Box (a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and a 2007 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book), Not a Stick, A Penguin Story (also chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book), and many more books for children. She attended the UCLA School of Fine Arts and is a former creative director at Disney. Antoinette lives in Southern California.

Editorial Reviews

03/07/2022

A child delights in being “up” in this visually spare nighttime board book. As a yellow sun half-dips below the bottom of the opening page (“The sun is down”), a light-brown-skinned child, whose hair visually echoes the sun’s rays, peeks up from the facing page (“but I am up”). Against a progressively darkening blue backdrop, the young figure remarks that, though “The moon is up,// like me,” everyone else—pets and parents both—is “sleepy,” all the while insisting “but not me” with fading grin, drooping eyelids, and lowering head, until a yawn portends the inevitable conclusion. Portis’s spongy illustrations capture a child’s transition to sleep with a pleasing simplicity that’s easily graspable by those developing first slumber-time routines. Publishing simultaneously: I’m Up! Ages up to 3. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

"Written with simplicity and clarity, the childlike narrative is accessible to the very young, while adult readers will feel the parents’ relief at the story’s end, when they deliver the last words in a whisper, 'Baby’s sleeping.'"
— Booklist

"A masterclass on how to create the ideal board book. It really is." — Betsy Bird, A Fuse #8 Production (SLJ blog)

From the Publisher

"Written with simplicity and clarity, the childlike narrative is accessible to the very young, while adult readers will feel the parents’ relief at the story’s end, when they deliver the last words in a whisper, 'Baby’s sleeping.'"

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