Your Own Big Bed
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This well-designed title sends a comforting message to children facing the transition to a big-kid bed. Through comparisons to the animal world, Bergstein shows preschoolers that each step in their growth is natural and universal, and her direct address to young listeners adds to the story’s reassuring, intimate tone.
The cyclical story line echoes the soothing sounds and rhythms in the simple words, while Hartung’s careful blue palette portrays nighttime as restful and inviting rather than scary. A lovely, sensitive offering. ~Gillian Engberg
