Mushroom Lullaby (Lullaby)
by Kenneth Kraegel (Author) Kenneth Kraegel (Illustrator)
From the creator of Wild Honey from the Moon comes a fanciful lullaby as cozy and unique as a mushroom home.
Here is your mushroom at the end of the day. The sun stretches out and sets far away. In gentle rhyme, this spare and whimsical picture book from the one-of-a-kind imagination of Kenneth Kraegel introduces little readers to all sorts of wonderful mushrooms: ones that grow up high and ones that never stay dry, ones that grow in a park and ones that glow in the dark, and even one made just for them! Who can resist climbing up the soft mushroom stair, curling up in a plush mushroom chair, and preparing to dream sweet mushroom dreams?
The lulling narration and warm illustrations of this charmingly quirky book will have drowsy young ones settling into their own comfy beds, ready to drift off to sleep.
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Mushrooms provide an unconventional and earthy through line for this cozy bedtime book. Rhyming lines open with a simple introduction to different types of fungi ("This is a mushroom that grows in the park./ This is a mushroom that glows in the dark"), but the story soon takes a more personal and interactive slant: "And here is a mushroom made just for you./ Your friends can come, too." A game- and lemonade-filled day with bug pals--including a ladybug, centipede, and a pair of butterflies--ensues, until dusk arrives and the door to "your" mushroom house is flung open. Up "soft mushroom stair" the reader discovers a round room with a "big mushroom chair" and a "warm/ mushroom bed"--a welcoming space in which to snuggle down as the full moon peeks through a circular window. Intricate dots and lines define Kraegel's ink and watercolor art, which quaintly supports this enchanted, inviting portrait of a mushroom day and night. Ages 2-5. (Oct.)
Copyright 2022 Publishers Weekly, LLC Used with permission.School Library Journal
This book begins like a lyrical show-and-tell: "This is a mushroom that grows in the park./ This is a mushroom that glows in the dark./ This is a mushroom growing on a tree./ And this little mushroom is hard to see." With the turn of each golden page, the natural world of a realistic mushroom tale turns into a miniature journey to a small mushroom home where "you," the listener, can drop off to sleep in cozy surroundings and dream the night away. By this time, children will have stopped asking questions about how they went from show-and-tell to dollhouse-sized existence, fully entering this mushroom world of warmth and tenderness to settle down to sleep. The rhyming text starts off with mushrooms to look for and ends by being tucked into a snug mushroom bed. The artwork has lots of details that will give the less sleepy opportunities to look for and name things as the pages are turned, without the bother of a narrative plot. VERDICT A nice way to send children off to post-story hour naps, at least once.—Debbie Tanner
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JUV010000 - Juvenile Fiction | Bedtime & Dreams
JUV029010 - Juvenile Fiction | Nature & the Natural World | Environment
Stories in rhyme
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