All My Friends Are Fast Asleep
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Parents Magazine's "Best Bedtime Story" of 2017!
From David Weinstone, the popular children's musician and creator of the Music for Aardvarks program, comes All My Friends Are Fast Asleep, a rhythmic, cheerily illustrated bedtime story sure to smooth the way to sleep for young insomniacs everywhere.
After tossing and turning in his bed, a little boy embarks on a nighttime quest to find a cozy place to rest. He visits one animal friend after another, from a lark in its nest to a mole in its hole. But while all the animals he meets are happily dozing off, this tuckered-out wanderer remains wide-awake—until he finally finds the perfect spot to lay his head.
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Children's musician Weinstone follows Music Class Today! with another song as picture book; guitar chords and a link to a free download are included. The hero, a brown-skinned boy with a bad case of insomnia, leaves his cozy bedroom, ventures outdoors carrying a lantern-bright white pillow (which matches the whites of his very open eyes), and looks for a sleep role model in the animal world. "So on I go to find a place to lay my weary head/ Perhaps I'll find a friend or two to help me up ahead," reads the refrain. Le Huche (With Dad, It's Like That) creates a nighttime landscape that's both pretty and benign, rendered in crisp lines and rich hues of teal, navy, and purple. The eight featured animals run the gamut (whale, mole, bat, etc.) and are joined by some bemused nocturnal onlookers (an owl, a fox, some rabbits). The story ends just as it should, with the hero re-embracing human sleeping habits, and the text's steady, lilting repetition may have some readers doing so, too. Ages 2 6. Author's)
