Sweet dreamers
Record details
- ISBN: 0802855172
- ISBN: 9780802855176
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Physical Description:
72 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
print - Publisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translated from the French. "Originally published in France in 2017 under the title Doux Rêveurs" -- copyright page. |
Target Audience Note: | 860L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.4 0.5 505868. |
Search for related items by subject
Genre: | Picture books. Picture books. Juvenile works. Fiction. |
Available copies
- 7 of 7 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Trails Regional. (Show)
- 0 of 0 copies available at Trails Regional-Technical Services.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | E SIM 2019 (Text) | 0002205606250 | Easy Picture Books | Available | - |
Lebanon-Laclede County Library | E Simler (Text) | 3803646383 | Picture Books | Available | - |
Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly | E SIMLER (Text) | 2004318481 | Children's Area | Available | - |
Morgan County Library | E SIM (Text) | 35319000307457 | Children's Fiction | Available | - |
North Kansas City Public Library | JE SIM (Text) | 0001002221347 | JUV Easy | Available | - |
St. Joseph - East Hills Library | E SIM (Text) | 32002005166465 | Easy Book | Available | - |
Trails Regional-Waverly | E SIM (Text) | 2204867772 | Easy Fiction | Available | - |
Publishers Weekly Review
Sweet Dreamers
Publishers Weekly
Do animals dream? Whimsically pondering what could be in the minds of a menagerie of sleepers, Simler uses descriptive language to cleverly evoke dreams drawn from animals' distinguishing characteristics and habitats: "She settles on a rock, mimics a pebble, and sleeps like a stone. The octopus dreams in disguise." "Tight inside his twisting shell, the snail stretches to the bottom of his bed. His dreams spiral out." Each slumbering animal receives an illustrated spread accompanied by a brief prose poem. Wordless nighttime landscapes punctuate these reveries, languorously extending the book's rhythmic pace. Staticky scratched lines of color highlighted with electric orange against deep inky backgrounds offer an energizing contrast to more common depictions of rest, subtly reminding readers that dreaming, too, is an action. Ages 4-8. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
BookList Review
Sweet Dreamers
Booklist
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Twenty-eight slumbering creatures fill this visually arresting book of poems. Each animal occupies a double-page spread with a short poem (most are five to six lines) suggesting how it dreams, paired with an Âillustration typically a close-up portrait of the sleeper's face on one page and a more distant view on the other. For instance, the flamingo that dreams in pink is captured with its beak nestled in its feathers, in addition to snoozing atop one spindly leg in sunset-flecked water. Elsewhere, an elephant dreams in granite, sleeping solidly upright. The alluring digital illustrations resemble scratchboard artwork, with an electric rainbow of color peeking through backdrops of black, blue, white, or pink, to name a few. Fine lines, which gained Simler admiration in Plume (2017), give the animal portraits a stunning, textured appearance, whether as hair, fur, or feather. The book's organization is loose, occasionally taking cues from a landscape spread, such as the moonlit ocean, beneath which rest a stingray and seahorse. The book's calming tone and drowsy animals destine it for bedside tables.--Julia Smith Copyright 2019 Booklist
Kirkus Review
Sweet Dreamers
Kirkus Reviews
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A stylized, visually stunning introduction to animals and animal facts that doubles neatly as a bedtime story.In this French import, slumbering animals, insects, and sea creatures are depicted in highly detailed spreads paired with lyrical free verse. Delicate clusters of lines characterize the digital illustrations, which, dominated by black, resemble scratchboard with a modern twist: Vibrant neon-orange highlights the moonlit details on nearly every page. The visual and verbal pacing excels. Wordless full-bleed landscape endpapers and title pages gently draw readers in, inspiring quiet wonder and appreciation of the natural world before zooming in on the first featured creature: a sloth, asleep in a tree. What follows is an organic, loosely educational exploration of animals' experiences of sleep: In each spread, Simler's text, translated from the original French, cleverly acknowledges fact (the sloth sleeps "slung like a hammock") while entertaining flights of fancy ("the sloth dreams / of spring-loaded sprinters, / of rockets blasting off"). The creatures themselves are easily recognizable; many, refreshingly, are less-common subjects, including a humpback whale, a flamingo, and a wild boar. Every so often, the close-up animal spreads are punctuated by new wordless nighttime landscape spreads over which to linger. In the final spread, an unnamed light-skinned girl slumbers: a cue for readers to do the same. The satisfyingly large trim size, soothing pacing, and imaginative text invite shared (and frequent) reading.A delight. (Picture book. 3-8) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
School Library Journal Review
Sweet Dreamers
School Library Journal
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K-Gr 3-Lyrical language and stunning, semi-realistic digital artwork strike a serene balance between dreamland and the natural world. Atmospheric spreads and imagery-packed verses depict a variety of sleeping animals in their habitats. "The humpback whale/dreams vertically.... Balancing on her head/or the tip of her tail,/this ballerina nosedives/into sleep." Some of the entries lean more toward the whimsical: "Slung like a hammock,/the sloth dreams/of spring-loaded sprinters,/of rockets blasting off,/of pump-action spinning tops./When the stopwatch starts,/our dreaming racer/doesn't move/an inch." Contrasting dusky hues with bright oranges and greens, Simler's handsomely composed images expertly use lines to create texture and depth. Most animals are depicted with both a full-body image and a zoomed-in shot. Wordless double-page renderings of various biomes are interspersed throughout, providing opportunity to discuss species' habitats. A glowing full moon adorns many of the spreads, adding continuity and building toward the final scene, where a child dreams of interacting with these animals "beneath the moon." VERDICT Share this exquisite offering as an introduction to the sleep habits of different animals, an imagination-stirring example for poetry writing, or a soothing bedtime story to inspire sweet dreams.-Joy Fleishhacker, Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.