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Settle in for winter with this cozy bedtime read. Sailing off to Sleep speaks to children's love for adventure, independence and a comforting conclusion. This rhyming picture book tells the tale of a young girl's reluctance to go to bed and her imaginary journey across the Arctic sea. Throughout, the girl's mother asks concerned questions about her daughter's well-being, for which the young adventurer always has a confident answer. She sails with a whale, floats with a walrus, cuddles with polar bears and frolics with all manner of polar animals not often found in children's books. Cool Arctic landscape and warm animal illustrations contrast beautifully. The text's rhyming cadence can also help pre-readers learn to hear that words are made up of smaller parts. The little girl's return to home offers a soothing route to sleep for the little one in your life. Find Sailing off to Sleep at your library under E Ashman.
Ashman, Linda. Sailing off to Sleep. 2001.
New York: Simon & Schuster books for Young Readers .
Reviewed by Amanda Lamb
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My older children and I have been reading "Chasing Sunsets" by Lawrence Pane It is a light-hearted, novel-like recounting of how a regular family sailed around the world. This sailing bed-time book recommendation of yours will be great for my littlest one who has trouble getting to sleep.
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