Sleepy, the Goodnight Buddy
An eBook with Audio
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
It is impossible not to crack up while reading this all-dialogue bedtime story by Drew Daywalt, the New York Times #1 best-selling author of The Day the Crayons Quit. Scott Campbell's expressive illustrations bring home the hilarity.
Roderick hates going to bed, and the young boy has become quite resourceful in coming up with ways to delay the dreaded hour when the lights must go out. Roderick's loving parents -- fed up with the distractions and demands that have become his anti-bedtime ritual -- decide to get him a stuffed animal to cuddle with and help him wind down. However, Sleepy quickly proves to be a bit high-maintenance. Just when we fear the night may never end, Sleepy's antics become too exhausting for Roderick to bear.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Top talents Daywalt (The Day the Crayons Quit) and Campbell (Hug Machine) take on the familiar story of the reluctant sleeper, and things escalate quickly. Presented with the eponymous stuffed toy by his exasperated parents, ace bedtime avoider Roderick "couldn't decide whether it looked more like a moose or more like a bear." While Sleepy may seem goofy at first glance, bedtime proves him to be an even more insistent and successful procrastinator than his new owner. Sleepy never blinks ("No matter where Roderick put him, he could still FEEL Sleepy looking at him"), he's incredibly touchy ("Well, I can't sleep even if you're a little mad"), and his annoying ruminations ("You ever wonder what it all means?") fill a cascade of dialogue balloons until the increasingly exhausted Roderick loses his temper and the reader begins to wonder who, exactly, is trolling whom. As Roderick realizes he's met his match, Campbell's digitally enhanced watercolor vignettes model perfect comic pacing and a laugh-generating repertoire of character expressions for both the out-of-control Sleepy and his increasingly frustrated bedmate. Ages 3 5.
