A Lullaby of Summer Things
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
In the spirit of such bedtime favorites as Emily Winfield Martin's Day Dreamers, here is a quintessential end-of-day by the beach lovingly captured and perfect for reading aloud.
This simple, lyrical picture book is as warm, reassuring, and filled with joy as a vacation at the beach. Readers will join a little girl and her siblings as they wind down from a perfect day--hanging up towels, eating dinner, and getting ready for bed--each activity sparking a memory of their day--playing catch with the dog, chasing waves, and looking at sailboats along the shore. And when the lights of the family beach house go off--"In the dusky evening light, a sleepy house says goodnight"--young listeners will be lulled to sleep themselves.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At twilight, a child and her family all have simple, doll-like faces with rounded noses return to their rural cottage home from a day at the beach: "A screen door sings/ a lullaby of summer things." In quiet, rhyming text, Ziarnik describes the mixed-race family's evening routine (the mother feeds the baby, the older children take a bubble bath). As bedtime approaches, the child also reflects on their seashore outing: "And you remember the/ beach that day / the sea so cool,/ sails far away." The child's recollections play out in Valentine's gouache spreads. Misty, cloudlike waves roll in as the girl and her family friendly, white dog included play in the water and sand. Though special days must end, Ziarnik suggests, warm memories are carried onward into the present. Ages 4 8.
