How Do You Go to Sleep? by Kate McMullan

How Do You Go to Sleep? Reviews

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  Cindy Mitchell *Kiss the Book*

  How Do You Go to Sleep? By Kate McMullan, illustrated by Sydney Hanson. PICTURE BOOK. Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House), 2019. $18.9780525579441
  
  BUYING ADVISORY: Pre-K, EL (K-3) - ADVISABLE
  
  AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
  
  Different animals and their sleeping habits are described and then the narrator pauses the informational text to ask the reader if they sleep the same way. This pattern continues four times.
  
  I loved reading this sweet book. The text is rhythmic and the information about animals is fun. The only part I didn’t like was that when the questions arrive it was sometimes hard to remember which animal they connect to.
  
  Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher
  
  https://kissthebookjr.blogspot.com/20...
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  Barbara

  After providing information about how four different animals sleep, the author asks readers if that's the way they go to sleep. It's clear from the illustrations that animals and humans do not sleep in the same way as shown by the 12 examples here. (The book shares three different sets of four animals on its pages to contrast their habits with humans.) The best page is the one in which readers are directly addressed with a list of sleeping habits, for instance, "a tuck sleep or heap sleep" (unpaged), followed by several types of actions humans typically take when they are going to bed and a funny page with a snoozing child and adoring parents looking on. The mixed media illustrations lend a sentimental feeling to some of the pages while other pages highlighting those sleeping animals seem realistic. With its stuffed animal toys on the end papers, all animals featured earlier, this picture book is perfect as a bedtime story. Just be careful that the adults in the room don't drift off to sleep while reading their offspring to sleep. I liked the blending of science and information about animals with the reality of human behavior.
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  Read Ribbet

  Good book for a night time routine as the author questions the human reader by showing examples of how other animals sleep. Factual information is shared about each animal and a sleep routine for children is introduced at the end.
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  Alyssa Gudenburr

  A very cute book about going to sleep and learning about how different animals go to sleep. My only complaint is the story is on the long side for little kids.
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  Beth

  Gorgeous illustrations in this cute picture book about how different animals sleep.
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  Elizabeth Moreau Nicolai

  sometimes I think the kid lit world might be getting too full of bedtime books. Do we really need another sleeping book?
  Well, I love this one, so apparently we did.
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  Sheri

  I liked the way this book showed how animals go to sleep and where they sleep, and the vocabulary used to show different small animals sleeping. Big soft illustrations to show the animals asleep.
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  Edward Sullivan

  Appealing bedtime reading about how different baby animals go to sleep.
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  Julie

  Cuteness!!
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  PottWab Regional Library

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  Library Lady Terri

  Beautiful book. Probably went over the head of my audience.
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  Kelly

  This book tells the reader how different animals go to sleep, then compares them to how humans go to sleep.
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  Sharlene Robertson (Sullivan)

  I can’t with the illustrations! Seriously cutest pictures ever!
  Wish I could buy pictures of the animals and how they sleep very well done!
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  Zaya

  I thought this was a cute way to show children how different animals sleep and how different it would be to our own way of sleeping.
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  Ann

  Sweet illustrations of animals going to bed. Good bedtime/sleep story time book or for you own child at bed.