How Do You
Sleep?
By Louise
Bonnett-Rampersaud
Illustrated by
Kristin Kest
Marshall
Cavendish Children, 2005
30 pages
Nonfiction
My first impression of How Do You Sleep? was that it did not
really seem like a nonfiction book, because it has a nice rhyme to the text and
beautiful illustrations. The text in this book is written in a repetitive,
poetic style and has good use of rhyme. The pages visit different animals and
tell how each one of them sleeps. How Do
You Sleep also mentions where each of the animals sleep and describes what
they look and sound like. At the end of the book, there are children. Their dad
reads them a story, and it tells how they fall asleep for the night.
The illustrations in How Do You Sleep? are just stunning.
They are done in oil paint on paper and are very realistic. The illustrator did
a wonderful job making the animals look as real as possible, and the settings
of the illustrations are also accurate. The color is very nice and soft, and
not too bright. There were very natural colors used in the paintings, because
all of the settings are in nature. The pages that include the children are not,
but they look like the classic, historical paintings of children. The way the
children are dressed, along with some other features of the paintings, makes it
feel like they are in an earlier time period.
How
Do You Sleep? feels like one of those books you could read to a very young
child as a bedtime story. It would be appropriate for a teacher to read aloud
in preschool or the early elementary grades, like kindergarten or first grade.
I think it would be great for a beginning reader, the text is not lengthy, and
the vocabulary would not be difficult. I believe the repetitive nature of the
book makes it a great book for a student to choral or echo read. The first two
words of each line repeat, and two lines on each page rhyme at the end. The
book would be great for poetry lesson because of this, and it has poetic form.
This book has no awards or honors.
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