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All the Awake Animals Are Almost Asleep    by Crescent Dragonwagon & David McPhail Amazon.com order for
All the Awake Animals Are Almost Asleep
by Crescent Dragonwagon
Order:  USA  Can
Little, Brown & Co., 2012 (2012)
Hardcover
* * *   Reviewed by Lyn Seippel

A tired little one is lured to sleep while his mother explains how all the animals have a time to wake and time to sleep.

'Every creature, tame and wild,
Has night and day, has still and leap,
Has wide awake and sound asleep.
'

The animals and their sleeping habits are introduced alphabetically. The illustrations by David McPhail are clear and beautiful. His animals are easy to recognize at a time when many children's books are so artistic that the accompanying pictures are hard to understand.

Crescent Dragonwagon has written a lovely alphabet and go to sleep book. The alphabetical animals make a great daytime read while the soothing poetry will ease little ones to sleep at night. This is a book that will be fun to read again and again and has already become one of my favorites.

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