Sleep Like a Tiger

Sleep Like a Tiger

Specifics

APA Citation: Logue, M., & Zagarenski, P. (2012). Sleep like a tiger. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.

Meets EDU 333 Blog Requirement For: Picture Book, Written in the last four years, diverse protagonist

Lexile Level: Not Available

Audience: This is a good book for younger readers.

Summary

This book is about a little girl who was not sleepy, but her parents told her to get ready for bed anyways. When she got tucked into bed, she asked if the whole world sleeps. Her parents said yes, and they began to talk about how all kinds of animals go to sleep. Then she says she still not sleepy and her parents tell her she can stay awake all night if she wants and they leave her tucked into bed with the lights off. She then falls asleep and sleeps like all of the animals they had talked about.

Evaluation

This book is not one I would read to my students, but I'd be happy to have it in my classroom. I believe this story serves better as a bedtime story than something to read with a class.

The author did a great job teaching about a few animals and how they sleep like bats, whales, and tigers. She used reptition to first teach about all of the animals, then to show that the girl slept like them too. 

This story has only three people, they are all white. There is nothing stereotypical about this book and the author does not use loaded words.

The illustrations are pretty and are a huge part of why this story is so nice. It uses darker colors to get the reader in the mood to sleep and shows sleeping comfortable animals. 

Mini Lesson

I might have the students write about what they do to prepare for bed and what they do when they can't sleep.