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Sleep Like a Tiger: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
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Sleep Like a Tiger: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner Hardcover - 2012

by Mary Logue; Pamela Zagarenski (Illustrator)

In an innovative bedtime book for young readers, the fresh look of Caldecott Honor Medalist Zagarenski's luminous illustrations paired with Logue's poetic and unadorned language frame the very simple-sounding question: "does everything in the world go to sleep?" Full color.


Summary

2013 Randolph Caldecott Honor Award

In this magical bedtime story, the lyrical narrative echoes a Runaway Bunny – like cadence: “Does everything in the world go to sleep?” the little girl asks. In sincere and imaginative dialogue between a not-at-all sleepy child and understanding parents, the little girl decides “in a cocoon of sheets, a nest of blankets,” she is ready to sleep, warm and strong, just like a tiger. The Caldecott Honor artist Pamela Zagarenski’s rich, luminous mixed-media paintings effervesce with odd, charming details that nonsleepy children could examine for hours. A rare gem.

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A magical bedtime story, honored as a Caldecott Honor Book.

In sincere and imaginative dialogue between a child and her kind and understanding parents, the little girl decides "in a cocoon of sheets, a nest of blankets," she is ready to sleep, warm and strong, just like a tiger.

The lyrical narrative echoes a Runaway Bunny-like cadence: "Does everything in the world go to sleep?" the little girl asks.

Artist Pamela Zagarenski's rich, luminous mixed-media paintings effervesce with charming details that non-yet-sleepy children can examine for hours. A rare gem.

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  • Title Sleep Like a Tiger: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
  • Author Mary Logue; Pamela Zagarenski (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Ed
  • Pages 40
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarion Books, New York
  • Date 2012-10-23
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780547641027 / 0547641028
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 11.2 x 0.5 in (23.37 x 28.45 x 1.27 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 07 years
  • Grade levels P - 2
  • Reading level 510
  • Themes
    • Event: Fall
    • Event: Winter
    • Topical: Boy's Interest
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Girl's Interest
    • Topical: Inspiration
  • Library of Congress subjects Sleep, Bedtime
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011044881
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

Media reviews

"This deeply satisfying story offers what all children crave when letting go--security and a trusted companion."
Kirkus, starred review

"Touched with enchantment . . . This may put little ones to sleep, but they'll have a lot to look at before they close their eyes."
Booklist, starred review

"Zagarenski's dreamy mixed-media illustrations are as calm and comforting as Logue's understated prose."
Horn Book

"Zagarenski's paintings take Logue's story to places marvelously distant in thought and time; each spread holds treasures to find even after several readings."
Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Logue’s text is reassuring and rhythmic, but it is the fine detail and plush atmospherics of Zagarenski’s layered multimedia illustrations that make the book shine.”
New York Times Online

"The common theme of a child not ready for bed receives fresh treatment here. . . . [A] memorable picture book."
School Library Journal, starred review

Citations

  • Booklist, 10/01/2012, Page 54
  • Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/2013, Page 14
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 12/01/2012, Page 0
  • Horn Book Magazine, 11/01/2012, Page 71
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2013, Page 35
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/2012, Page 0
  • New Yorker (The), 10/14/2012, Page 18
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/01/2012, Page 95
  • School Library Journal, 12/01/2012, Page 94
  • Shelf Awareness, 12/18/2012, Page 0
  • SLJ's Best Books, 12/01/2012, Page 30

About the author

Mary Logue has written more than twenty books for children. She lives on the Mississippi with the writer Pete Hautman. Visit her at www.marylogue.com. The Caldecott Honor artist Pamela Zagarenski (Red Sings from Treetops, 2010) divides her time between Stonington, Connecticut, and Prince Edward Island.

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