My Bed: Enchanting Ways to Fall Asleep Around the World

On each spread, Bond describes a child's bedstead in rhyming first-person perspective, paired with an informative contextualizing paragraph. "My bed unrolls on grasslands vast--it travels where I go," reads one, which depicts the "wide-open steppes of Mongolia" in stitched greenery, alongside a cross-section of a white ger and its jewel-toned interior. Mavor's immersive signature illustrations charm; the intricately stitched art, handcrafted from fabric, beads, wire, and yarn on embroidered fabric backgrounds, will assuredly catch readers' attention. Endpapers feature a variety of animals, including an elephant, a crocodile, and a ryukin goldfish; spreads highlight the animal that might be found within each country's environment--the elephant for India, crocodile for Ghana, and ryukin for Japan. This meditation on global similarities and differences is worth poring over for the fabric relief art alone. Back matter includes a note about the stitching. Ages 4-7. (Sept.)

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★ "Children around the globe go to sleep in different kinds of beds in this ingeniously illustrated picture book.... All readers will want to return to pore over the details of these imaginative depictions.... A concluding note about the creation of the illustrations will be fascinating to adults and may prompt them to work with children to make some fabric collages. Read this before bedtime to ensure a world of sweet dreams." —Kirkus, STARRED review

"This eye-catching volume looks at bedtime....While the text is helpful, it's secondary to the photos that showcase Mavor's wonderfully detailed, diorama-like scenes, created with fabrics, beads, wood, and wire and richly, meticulously embellished with embroidery in thread and yarn. Featuring vibrant, harmonious colors, interesting patterns, and folk art charm, the illustrations will impress craft-minded viewers with the artist's ingenuity and attention to detail. A handsome book to share with young children."—Booklist

"Mavor's immersive signature illustrations charm; the intricately stitched art, handcrafted from fabric, beads, wire, and yarn on embroidered fabric backgrounds, will assuredly catch readers' attention....this meditation on global similarities and differences is worth poring over for the fabric relief art alone." —Publishers Weekly