Sleep+Like+A+Tiger

Sleep Like A Tiger By Mary Louge

Book Review by Adrianna Lanzetti

ISBN-13: 9780547641034 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication date: 10/23/2012 Pages: 40 Age range: 4 - 8 Years
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__**Summary:**__ In this book, a little girl does not feel sleepy and is insistent that she is not going to sleep. She tells her parents she is not tired they ask her to just think about going to bed. She listens but continues to have a conversation to keep everyone busy and not focused on sleep. She then proceeds to ask her parents question about animals and whether they go to sleep. All the while, her parents keep telling her that she can stay up all night, as long as she does different bed time things. Each time she asks a question, they respond the same way, telling her to do things like brush her teeth, wash her face, and climb into bed. The simple acts of completing tasks that you do when you are getting ready for bed, causes her to subconsciously become ready to go to sleep. After she is read for bed, she lays down and begins to think about how she is just like the animals when they are sleeping. And eventually the little girl falls fast asleep.

__**Review:**__ I thought this book was a great demonstration, for children, to think of creatures that are not human and how we, in more ways than one, are just like them. The little girl was able to create almost a personification like feel to the night time activities of these wild animals. The book also used great metaphors that assisted in the telling of the story of how everyone must sleep, no matter if you are a small little mouse or a great big lion.

__**Literary Element:**__ When reading this book the literary element I thought most aided in the telling of this story was the use of metaphors. Throughout the story the author used metaphors to create the connection between the little girl and the animals, regarding bed time routines. The metaphors were simple enough for children to understand, yet sophisticated enough for children to easily pick out the literary element of the book. An example of this would be, "The little girls bed was warm and cozy, a cocoon of sheets, a nest of blankets." This metaphor was easy for children to understand but also gave them great imagery of what was happening in the story. Each metaphor had a purpose, and the purpose was to create a mental image for the children of exactly what was happening on that particular page.

__**Author Biography:**__ Award-winning author Mary Logue was born April 16, 1952. She has written more than twenty books for children. She lives in Mississippi with writer Pete Hautman, where the two love to create children's books.

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