Shhh!
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
When baby brother is sleeping, it's time to be ever so quiet. There's no singing or jumping or laughing at all. Even the toys need to be quiet! The pirates stop firing their cannons, the knights stop fighting, even the tiger stops growling. But when baby wakes up . . . it's time to jump and laugh and sing again! And the knights begin to fight, the pirates fire up the cannons, and the tiger growls so loudly! Until it's time to be quiet once again.
In this beautifully and expressively illustrated picture book, we celebrate the love between siblings as a big brother uses his imagination to calm his urge to cause a ruckus so that his little brother can sleep.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With a refreshing take on sibling relationships, Gorbachev (What's the Big Idea, Molly?) celebrates not only a child's imagination but also his love and protective older brother mentality. "When my baby brother sleeps, I am very quiet," announces the book's hero, shown wearing a cowboy hat and tiptoeing past his brother's room. "Please stop laughing," he says to a clown, seen juggling beach balls in a circus ring, before the boy proceeds to bravely shush warring knights, a tiger, and even a train. Using engaging paintings and minimal text, Gorbachev sensitively zeroes in on the brother's emotions, especially when the baby wakes up, and both their smiles are full of joy. The remainder of the book includes the same characters seen before, revealed to be toys that the boy enthusiastically and loudly plays with ("And I am jumping and shouting and singing again!"). The toys are not generic plastic, but old-fashioned, well-loved playthings, so the images move easily between the book's make-believe and realistic scenes. Gorbachev's tenderhearted message is clear: good things come to those who wait for naptime to be over. Ages 3 5.
