Please Don't Wake the Animals: A Book About Sleep

I found this book to be interesting in multiple ways. I really liked how the author included a lot of different animals in the story to give the readers more facts. I also liked how the story was formatted with each page being a different animal but there were sections about animals that slept during the day or slept at night, animals that hibernate, and of how animals sleep. The illustrations of this story were very detailed. They showed what the animals were doing. If the animal were sleeping standing up, such as a horse, the animal would be standing up. If the animal were sleeping during the day, the author would have the sky being sunny out so the readers could tell. The language of the story was also very informative. The readers show more are able to get a lot of information and facts each type of animal. For example, when the author talked about endangered mountain gorillas the author said “each gorilla makes a new nest in a different tree every night”. Most people or students would not know that fact about the endangered mountain gorillas. The overall big picture of this story is to inform readers about the different ways and times the different animals sleep. show less

I liked this book for several reasons. First, the plot of the story was well developed and organized. For example, the other went through several different mammals and their sleep habits. The way the author presented the information was organized, and informative. Second, the book pushes the readers to get a good nights sleep. The book begins and ends with a little girl in bed getting ready to go to sleep. The book pushes the readers to see the importance of sleep. The main message of the story was the importance of sleeping, and how different mammals sleep.

This book teaches young children all about sleep. It is very informative, but I found it to be a little wordy. I liked how it provided all of the different information about the different animals. The illustrations in the book were beautiful.