Mama's Pajamas

by Mara Van Fleet, Mara Van Fleet (Illustrator)

Overview

From bestselling novelty book creator Mara Van Fleet comes a cozy, texture-filled storybook about two siblings’ nighttime ritual putting on their fuzzy and fun pajamas—made by their mom!

At night as Mama creates special pajamas for her little ones, there is a bedtime parade of trying them on. With fourteen textures and one lift-the-flap, this is a great read aloud and perfect for bedtime.

Children will delight in touching and feeling many bedtime outfits—from white woolly sheep pajamas to green bumpy dragon pajamas—in this cuddly book of cozy colors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481479752
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Publication date:	05/02/2017
Pages:	12
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 7.60(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

Mara Van Fleet has worked in children’s publishing for more than twenty years. She is the bestselling creator of Three Little Mermaids, Mama’s Pajamas, Night-Night Princess, and Little Color Fairies.

Mara Van Fleet has worked in children’s publishing for more than twenty years. She is the bestselling creator of Three Little Mermaids, Mama’s Pajamas, Night-Night Princess, and Little Color Fairies.

Editorial Reviews

03/13/2017
In this charming touch-and-feel board book, which emphasizes color identification, two smiling siblings show off their costumelike pajamas. “Our mama makes pajamas/ for my brother and me,/ and each night we choose/ who we want to be,” begins Van Fleet (Night-Night, Princess), whose simple rhymes suit the book’s bedtime setting. Textural embellishments make the already enviable outfits even more enticing: the boy’s dragon pajamas have bumpy green spines, the girl’s fox pajamas feature a bushy red tail, and her bunny pajamas have fuzzy pink ears. After putting on matching sets of sheep pjs (“They’re cuddly and cozy/ and make us both sleepy”), the toddlers are tucked into bed by their talented seamstress mother. Fair warning to parents: readers might begin to take issue with their standard-issue pajamas and demand more fanciful bedtime apparel. Up to age 4. (May)

Publishers Weekly

2017-05-01
Two very lucky children have a crafty mother who makes pajamas most children can only dream of.Two blond, white children—a brother-and-sister duo to judge by hairstyle conventions—wear pajamas created by their mother, and what pajamas they are! Their mama has made them to look like a green dragon, a red fox, a blue elephant, a yellow lion, a brown bear, a sparkling, purple fairy, pink and white bunnies, an orange kangaroo, and white sheep. Each night they choose what they want to be. As they parade the different pajamas in front of readers, each outfit has a touch-and-feel element, though there is not much variety to the textures. The dragon pajamas have "green, bumpy scales"; the red fox pajamas sport a "soft, bushy tail"; and though the elephant pajamas are supposed to be "wrinkly" and "rough," in reality the texture is just slightly bumpy. The only pajamas without a touch-and-feel element are the kangaroo ones, which instead have a flap that, when opened, reveals a pouch for the younger brother. Predictably, the white sheep pajamas are cuddly and cozy and make the children feel sleepy. As with so many of its ilk, the book seems geared for maximum saccharinity, with little to offer beyond the cute jammies. Sweet and insipid. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews