Review by Booklist Review
Ages 4-7. In poems that often reveal more than sleep preferences, 18 animals from the Pacific Northwest region answer the question, "Where do I sleep?" Kids get an opportunity to practice map skills, learn about new animals, find out why Alaska's summer days are so long, and add such unfamiliar words as tundra to their vocabulary: "Where do I sleep? On a pillow of grass--I nap on the tundra as long hours pass. The sun in the summertime always stays up / In Alaska, my home; I'sm a gray wolf pup." Gabriel's gorgeous artwork reflects the beauty and diversity of the wildlife and landscape: blacktail deer nestling on a thick-carpeted forest floor, brown bats hanging upside down in a cave, a mother and baby gray whale drifting in the bay. The final spread shows a "little human child, just like you" bedding down for the night with stuffed versions of all the animals in the story--a peaceful end. --Lauren Peterson
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
First-timers Blomgren and Gabriel team up for a tranquil bedtime poem that highlights animals of the Pacific Northwest. A series of pliant stanzas examines the sleeping habits of a dozen and a half different creatures, from sea otters and bald eagles to moose, gray whales and even anemone ("Where do I sleep? In a soft, grass-lined nest,/ Where tender spring boughs hide the place that I rest," says the Hermit Thrush"). The book ends with a child at bedtime ("Where do I sleep? In a bunk bed down low"), whose toy versions of the animals mentioned populate his top bunk. Buoyed by the repetitive refrain of "Where do I sleep?" and lovely imagery (a Gray Wolf pup sleeps on "a pillow of grass"; a Water Dipper sleeps where the rocks are "worn smooth as an old satin slipper"), Blomgren's verses go down smoothly, while oversize pages offer an expansive canvas for Gabriel's accomplished pastels. Hewing to a nature-inspired palette of soft greens, browns and blues, she employs deft line strokes and shading to suggest fur, feathers, fins and blades of grass. The selection of animals may be of particular regional interest, but this appealing collaboration deserves a wide audience. Ages 2-6. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by School Library Journal Review
Baby/Toddler-This tender pair should make lovely bedtime additions. Gentle verses describe the sleeping and singing habits of various animals. Each of the illustrations contains the name of the animal in question. Soft and sweet yet beautifully textured, the images are lovely and will have readers poring over them. © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
Baby animals native to the Pacific Northwest, including a gray whale, cougar, and sea otter, describe their beds in forced and uneven rhyme: Where do I sleep? Overlooking the Sound, / In a big nest of sticks, seen for miles around. / I nap and grow feathers; I'm not yet as regal / As my mother and dad. I'm a baby Bald Eagle. The book's information is as vague as its large, blurry, sometimes unrecognizable illustrations. From HORN BOOK Spring 2002, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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