The Little Sleepyhead by Fran Manushkin Illustrated by Leonid Gore

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4 stars

Now that we are in full swing of summer bedtimes and waking up times seem to have gone out the window. While we are still trying to keep up sort of semblance of a schedule I can still hear the older girls whispering far into the night. In the mornings I have been able to sleep into a delicious 8:30, this morning it was even pushed back to 9. Man am I spoiled. I probably should try to be more rigid with the bedtime. Getting back into the school routine in a month and a half might be a bit challenging. But, sometimes, you just need a break from it all. And if that break let's me sleep until 9, well I think I can handle that.

Synopsis

There is a little sleepyhead wandering around trying to find a place to sleep.

My Thoughts

I really liked it and the kids really liked it.

It was cute to see the sleepyhead try to mimic the animals that it sees to find a new place to sleep and having some pretty epic fails. I liked how the animals woke up each other. Sort of like a domino effect.

I like how it ends. It is almost like a motivational speaker slogan.  If this sleepyhead can fall asleep you can to! I don't know about your kids but mine are the masters of coming up with reasons why they don't need to sleep or why they can't fall asleep. I think the ending is for them.