Sleep, Baby, Sleep

by Maryann Cusimano Love, Maria van Lieshout (Illustrator)

Overview

If a parent could vocalize all her deepest hopes for her child, this is what she might say...
 
Every parent has hopes and dreams for their children? that they will play and explore, learn and grow. That they will experience life's many wonders and persevere through its many challenges. That they will one day leave the protection of home and go off into the world strong, happy, knowing that they are always loved.

Maryann Cusimano Love, author of the modern classic You Are My I Love You, has written another moving ode to parenthood, captured in playful, loving images by brilliant newcomer Maria van Lieshout (Bloom!). This timeless book is perfect for bedtime or anytime.
 

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101655412
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	01/10/2013
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	30
File size:	24 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Maryann Cusimano has been working with children since she was a teen–as a clown, story-teller, singer, puppeteer, and caregiver. You Are My I Love You arose out of her work with children, especially the PeaceKids group in the Sursum Corda housing project.

Maryann lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Rich Love (they are newlyweds). She is an associate professor of international politics at Catholic University. Dr. Maryann Cusimano Love is an award winning international educator and author. Dr. Cusimano Love has spoken to audiences from suburban pre-schoolers to inner city teens to international diplomats. A winner of Harvard University’s Pew Faculty Fellowship for teaching, and Catholic University’s Teacher of the Year Award, Maryann Cusimano Love is an effective presenter who favors participatory techniques.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Praise for SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP

"While words melt away into simple rhythms, the atmospheric artwork pinpoints ineffable feelings." --Kirkus "[S]imultaneously reassuring and celebratory." --School Library Journal

Editorial Reviews

PreS—According to an author's note, this lullaby is set to an old Mother Goose rhyme. Unlike the original poem, it seeks to encourage children not only to be gentle and calm as lambs, but to be dynamic and confident as well: "Be always like the hound who dares/To find adventure everywhere." The lulling poem is matched with spreads of animal parents and their offspring. The semiabstract cartoon creatures are rendered in ink and watercolor over washes of sunsets and oceans. The result is simultaneously reassuring and celebratory.—Laura Butler, Mount Laurel Library, NJ

School Library Journal

Soft watercolor illustrations and soothing rhymes encourage baby to rise, soar, laugh and shine. Adapted from a Mother Goose poem, this exhortation delivers hushed good wishes while emphasizing character traits that make for a happy life. Children should shine "like the firefly who glows / no matter how the darkness grows." Love's language lulls using a rhyme scheme and syllabic stresses that establish a comforting cadence, much like a rocking chair's gentle beat. Her melodic messages may, however, exceed the scope of a tiny child's understanding. Sometimes the language grows so sentimental it becomes clunky and a bit sappy: "From our arms you'll go / unfurling like a butterfly . . . ." Van Lieshout's wonderfully saturated watercolors achieve greater success expressing parental love and the promise of a life well lived. Loose, self-assured black brushstrokes appear on swaths of graduated color, carving out shapes (horses, dogs, flowers, ducks) with economy. Fireflies blink, doves coo, a hound shakes his jowls. While words melt away into simple rhythms, the atmospheric artwork pinpoints ineffable feelings-the sense of freedom brought on by a breeze, the possibility invoked by starlit sky. (Picture book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews

Praise for SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP

"While words melt away into simple rhythms, the atmospheric artwork pinpoints ineffable feelings." —Kirkus"[S]imultaneously reassuring and celebratory." —School Library Journal

From the Publisher