Coming in June from FIRST STREET: Sleep Tight, Anna Banana!
*Picture book, contemporary for preschool through second grade
*Young girl as main character
*Rating: This is such a great picture book–my daughter who is 3 absolutely loved it. We read it several nights in a row. She is big into her stuffed animals. And so is Anna Banana, so I think she saw a lot of herself in the book .I love it when authors/illustrators capture childhood moments in a book–this one is bedtime and imagination rolled into one!
Short, short summary: In Sleep Tight, Anna Banana, Anna is reading a funny book in bed with her stuffed animals arranged around her, and they want her to turn off the light and go to bed. They try to escape one by one, but Anna is too fast for them and makes them stay in their spots until she’s ready to turn the light out and go to bed. But once this happens, the stuffed animals decide to give her a taste of her own medicine and make a lot of noise. She tries to get them to settle down, to no avail. Eventually, they work out their differences and settle down to sleep.
The book will be available online everywhere June 17, 2014.
So, what do I do with this book?
- Problem/solution: What’s Anna’s problem? How does she solve it? What’s the major problem in the book? Solution?
- Emotions: Do you ever feel like Anna–like you aren’t ready to go to sleep? How do you settle down? Do you read? Sleep with animals?
- Discussion: Why do the animals keep Anna up at night? What are they trying to show her?
- Fun with books: What do you think of the stuffed animals’ names on the title page? Do these names fit? Why or why not?
- Sequence: What order do the events happen in the book?
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