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![]() ![]() ![]() The character’s faces are detailed and expressive, while the various animals are done in a colorful and stylized format. The art by Zunon is done in vibrant mix of collage and painting. Her words are energetic and the combination of behavior and animals is clever. I appreciate that the process is imperfect and at times filled with the child’s strong emotions. ![]() The process of bedtime negotiations is rather like lions and snakes for parents at times. Grimes takes the battles of bedtime and turns them into a menagerie of animals who fill the pages with the reactions. ![]() Then there is water to drink and the bathroom to use before the child may or may not head to their own bed and sleep. The child hugs like a koala for a final kiss. Fawns and squirrels appear as a storybook is shared. Once in bed, there is growling like a bear, hissing like a snake due to monsters, and even roaring like a lion to check beneath the bed. Their mother takes the teddy bear and heads off towards the bedroom. The child asks “who” like an owl as if there is someone else heading to bed. The book begins with the word “no” being chanted like a drum beat. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon ( 9781492638322)Ī small child does not want to go to bed in this poetic look at bedtime struggles. ![]()
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