Lilli Carré's “Tippy and the Night Parade” is of a size and style more intended for independent reading than sharing. According to an editor’s note, Brown had conceived these poems as song lyrics, and a compact disc of pallid but grating renditions is duly included in the kind of package that suggests you’re getting more for your money than you actually are. With each of the 12 selections illustrated by a different children’s book artist - including Sophie Blackall, Dan Yaccarino, Eric Puybaret and Melissa Sweet - the book lurches more than progresses from spread to spread. This collection won’t be it - where “Goodnight Moon” is all concentrated strangeness and mystery, the poems in “Goodnight Songs” are individually repetitive and carelessly developed sprouts of whimsy. “Goodnight Songs” is a collection of verses, most previously unpublished, by Margaret Wise Brown - herself of course the author of the bedtime classic “Goodnight Moon,” itself the progenitor of countless imitators eager to become the next baby shower staple.
But why about? Four new books, swaddled in practically identical shades of sleepy-time blue, attempt to make a case for the genre. (We were talking about young children, but I think this goes for all of us.) So books for bedtime, sure. Benjamin Spock’s “Baby and Child Care,” once told me that the purpose of bedtime stories is to give the imagination a kind of way station between wakefulness and sleep that facilitates an easier slip into unconsciousness. Robert Needlman, who revised and updated Dr. This should seem strange only to young children, for whom the provision of books about sleeping and not sleeping has captured a large slice of the picture book market. |a Carré, Lilli, 1983- |t Tippy and the night parade |d New York, NY : Toon Books is an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2014 |w (DLC) 2013024863. |a Follow Tippy on a nocturnal adventure through mist, up a mountain, down a hole, and back home. |a Includes "Tips for Parents and Teachers: How to Read Comics With Kids." |a 1 volume (unpaged) : |b color illustrations |c 16 x 23 cm. |a Tippy and the night parade / |c a Toon book by Lilli Carré.
|b Consortium Book Sales & Dist, C/O Two Rivers Distribution 210 American Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301-5070 |n SAN 631-760X
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