It's Time to Sleep, My Love
by Nancy Tillman (Author) Nancy Tillman (Illustrator)
As comforting as a soft blanket and warm as a goodnight hug, Eric Metaxas's lullaby It's Time to Sleep, My Love is delightfully brought to life by bestselling artist Nancy Tillman (On the Night You Were Born), whose illustrations celebrate the wonders of the natural world, and the bonds of family.
It's time to sleep, it's time to sleep, the fishes croon in waters deep. The songbirds sing in trees above, It's time to sleep, my love, my love. As children prepare for bed, the world around them is also settling down for the night. Animals who live in the jungle, the forest, the sea--all whisper to their babies a soft refrain: It's time to sleep, my love.
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A luxuriant bedtime retreat for children and parents alike.
ALA/Booklist
Culminating in a final scene of a sleeping child in a floating bed under a watchful moon, this gentle, tender offering will buoy children with its strong messages of safety and love.
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School Library Journal
Beyond the soothing titular refrain repeated throughout, troubles cripple this ode to bedtime ritual. Without strict stylistic technique, the verse is unnecessarily redundant, and cumbersome phrases such as "And as you dream inside your sleep" will trip up readers. Adults will surely have to explain the lines "Your dreams will be arriving soon./They'll float to you/in sleep's balloon./They'll be here when I snuff the wick, /you'd better close your eyelids quick." The book's design clearly favors Tillman's richly hued digital and mixed-media composite paintings over the text. Though fans of Tillman's "On the Night You Were Born" (Feiwel & Friends, 2006) will likely gravitate to this title, general readers will do better to look to other books for their evening routine. - Bethany Isaacson, Wheaton Regional Library, Silver Spring, MD
Copyright 2008 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Nancy Tillman is the author and illustrator of the bestselling picture book On the Night You Were Born; its companion journal, The Wonder of You: A Book for Celebrating Baby's First Year; The Spirit of Christmas; and the New York Times bestsellers, Wherever You Are, My Love Will Find You and The Crown on Your Head. She also created the mischievous cat Tumford in Tumford the Terrible and Tumford's Rude Noises, and illustrated It's Time to Sleep, My Love by Eric Metaxas.
Nancy's mission in creating her books is to convey to children everywhere that "You are loved." She lives in Portland, Oregon.
