Bedtime for Sweet Creatures

Name: Bedtime for Sweet Creatures
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Nikki Grimes
ISBN: 9781980082316

Author: Nikki Grimes

Narrator: Carra Patterson

Unabridged: 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/21/2020

Categories: Children's Fiction, Bedtime Stories, African American & Black Stories, Children's Poetry

Synopsis

Barnes & Noble Best Book of the YearKirkus Best Book of the YearPublishers Weekly Best Book of the Year4 STARRED REVIEWS It’s bedtime. But Mommy’s little one is not sleepy. You growl like a bear, you question like an owl, you toss your mane like a lion. How can Mommy tuck you in now? Mommy needs to wrangle her sweet creature for sleep in this endearing and imagination-fueled journey to bedtime from Children’s Literature Legacy Award–winning author Nikki Grimes.

About Nikki Grimes

Nikki Grimes is the recipient of the 2006 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. Her distinguished works include the ALA Notable book What Is Goodbye?, as well as the novels Jazmin’s Notebook, Dark Sons, and The Road to Paris, all of them Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books. She won the Coretta Scott King Author Award for Bronx Masquerade. Ms. Grimes lives in Corona, California. Visit Nikki at NikkiGrimes.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Abigail

Children's author and poet Nikki Grimes teams up with picture-book illustrator Elizabeth Zunon in this sweetly imaginative bedtime tale. A young girl resists going to bed, finding lots of ways to delay the inevitable, from making her mother check under the bed for monsters to demanding a last glass......more

Goodreads review by Laura

It is only January but Bedtime for Sweet Creatures will be one of my favorite picture books throughout 2020. The rhythm and illustrations are perfection. The book begs to be acted out. The illustrations are so interesting and lovely. I find myself reaching for this title over and over. It is wonderf......more