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Nighttime has come; it's time for bed. It's time to dream of soft spring breezes, sand castles and seagulls, pumpkins, and mittens in this book about a child's winsome dreams during the four seasons.
Reviews (2)
Horn Book Review
Lyrical repetitive text encourages a child to fall asleep then dream about nature and its changes throughout the year ("It's time to sleep. / It's time to dream / of lazy summer days...of cool autumn winds"). Soft full-page watercolor, colored-pencil, and gouache illustrations reflect the text's descriptions, while black silhouette spot illustrations show the family's comforting nighttime routine. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
If the title recalls "Turn! Turn! Turn!" it should. Adler offers a spare, comforting bedtime book that incorporates the changing seasons into a child's nighttime dreams. There is little text on each page, just a few carefully chosen words evoking each season of the year in turn: "It's time to sleep. It's time to dream, so close your eyes and dream of resting beneath the budding maple tree." As a mother and father put their son to sleep, they say these quietly descriptive words to soothe him. Chorao makes an effective choice in illustrating the majority of the bedtime activities in silhouette form, while the boy's exuberant imaginings are rendered in vibrant color paintings. Throughout, small blue-and-white stars lend visual continuity to the whole, recontextualizing the boy's dreamsof spring flowers, summer sand and sea, autumn leaves and a snowmanwithin the bedtime framework. The simplicity of the text and the sensible selection of soothing colors will lull any child to sleep. (Picture book. 2-5) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
