Although I really enjoyed the illustrations in this book, one page did not impress me very much. No detail was spared while illustrating Sleepytime Me and it is very obvious when analyzing each page. Christopher Denise did not leave anything out of his illustrations for this book, which made them very realistic while still being animations.
It was obvious that the illustrations took time due to the amount of trees in some illustrations, and the wallpaper that is seen inside the house. There was also a great deal of detail in the pictures.
#SLEEPYTIME WINDOWS#
I also thought the shadows and reflections in windows were very thought out and executed greatly. It made the reader think of a calm, peaceful night making it a great bedtime story. The illustrations set the mood very well for the book. I also liked the auras that surrounded all of the lights and stars. The blues were very dark and rich, which I thought worked well with the story. I enjoyed the illustrations of this book mostly because of the color saturation. I also thought th I picked Sleepytime Me by Edith Hope Fine and illustrated by Christopher Denise as my pick for the Caldecott Award. I picked Sleepytime Me by Edith Hope Fine and illustrated by Christopher Denise as my pick for the Caldecott Award. It's a quiet bedtime story so just like "Goodnight Moon" it doesn't need to tell a story, but instead to simply set a mood-but when it is "off" in a few places with so few words, it feels like a one-and-done book (read only once and move on to other books that beg for re-reading).more The poetic text is mostly calming, but it falls off track/beat in a few places-rhyming "done" and "on" in one stanza and the repetitive chant "Yawn around, yawn around, sleepy time sky (farm, town, etc.)" actually feels a little out of rhythm with the 4-line rhyming stanzas.
It's a quiet bedtime story so just like "Goodnight Moon" it doesn't need to tell a story, but instead to simply set a mood-but when it i This gentle poetic bedtime book has beautiful illustrations that feel like nighttime. This gentle poetic bedtime book has beautiful illustrations that feel like nighttime.
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