Mama in the Moon
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
In this gentle and comforting bedtime book by two award-winning creators, a mama sloth helps her baby to self-soothe while she’s making her way back to him.
Baby sloth lives high up in the trees with his mama, where he loves to sleep between her and the moon. But one night he tumbles from her arms to land in a soft patch of leaves far below. “I’ll be there soon,” Mama sloth calls down to him. But sloths never get anywhere soon. When Baby becomes worried, Mama finds clever ways to reassure and distract him using his senses of sight, sound, smell, and touch.
This beautifully told and enchantingly illustrated preschool read-aloud has the happiest of endings. It’s a bedtime delight that’s perfect for fans of Owl Babies and Kitten’s First Full Moon.
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Baby Sloth loves sleeping nestled high up in a tree "between/ his mama/ and the moon." When he tumbles to the ground, the tangerine-hued puffball lands in "a soft patch" of foliage, but he's nevertheless beyond forlorn in the inky darkness. Regarding the silhouetted, tangled vegetation around him with wide, anxious eyes, he feels "far away from home./ Far away from Mama." His mother quickly assures that she's coming to the rescue, but a series of panels depicting the sloth's glacially paced descent suggest that her arrival is likely to take a while. In response to her son's repeated calls of "Are you close now, Mama?" she tells Baby to focus on the details around him. Collaborators the Cronins (Lawrence & Sophia) show how the smell of yellow flowers, the sound of pink worms wriggling in fallen leaves, and the feel of blue moths fluttering all seem to light up the darkness by dint of the little sloth's budding powers of observation-as-self-regulation. By the time Mama's long arm extends lovingly into the frame, Baby has proved a little wiser, a lot calmer—and fully worthy of emulation. Ages 2–5.
