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If Animals Kissed Good Night Board book – June 3 2014
Ann Whitford Paul (Author) Find all the books, read about the author and more. See search results for this author |
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If animals kissed
like we kiss good night,
Giraffe and his calf
would stretch their necks high
and kiss just beneath
the top of the sky.
In a cozy bedtime chat with her mom, a young girl wonders how animal families might say good night. Would Wolf and his pup "kiss and then HOWL"? Would Bear and her cub "kiss and then GROWL"? But what about Sloth and her baby? They move soooo slooowwwww . . . they're sure to be kissing from early evening until long after everyone else is fast asleep!
With whimsical art and playful rhyming verse, this picture book is now in board book format for the first time, perfect for bedtime snuggles.
- Print length34 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade levelPreschool - 1
- Lexile measureAD600L
- Dimensions16.79 x 1.73 x 15.93 cm
- PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Publication dateJune 3 2014
- ISBN-100374300216
- ISBN-13978-0374300210
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The perfect bedtime story for your little one!
Your little one will discover a number of animals, animal baby names, animal body parts, and animal sounds. With charming illustrations to match children are able to visualize how animals would kiss their loved ones good night. They might even notice the similarities between animals and humans.
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About the Author
ANN WHITFORD PAUL and DAVID WALKER collaborated on Little Monkey Says Good Night, a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, which Kirkus Reviews praised as "a perfect good-night read." Ms. Paul lives in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Walker lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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- Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR); Brdbk edition (June 3 2014)
- Language : English
- Board book : 34 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0374300216
- ISBN-13 : 978-0374300210
- Item weight : 249 g
- Dimensions : 16.79 x 1.73 x 15.93 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author

ANN WHITFORD PAUL graduated from the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University School of Social Work. She became inspired to write picture books after years of bedtime reading to her four children. Now she gets story ideas from her seven grandchildren. She's published over 25 award-winning picture books, (rhymed and prose-fiction and nonfiction) poetry, early readers, and a book for adults about how to write picture books. When she isn't writing, she loves listening to her cat purr, watching spiders spin their webs, and following snails' trails.
You can learn more about her, download writing tips and classroom activities, and contact her through her web-site: www.annwhitfordpaul.com. Sign up for my monthly posts, often written by my cat, Mr. Darcy with writing advice, book recommendations and more https://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001nxNUBQroFr1JC4WHr71utq-yOB6YZBQoLVUY024phXn_2MwV3TlzR_TzhMK1nPtlWG_71Gj2iI_NQM5HLOOjjmm3LG7S31Xq7ezzV5IzA2HTT7cNRaELSw%3D%3D
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If I was buying it for my kid, it truly wouldn’t matter but I wouldn’t give this book as a gift.
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The first page goes "If animals kissed like we kiss goodnight, sloth and her cub, in late afternoon's light, would hang from a tree and start kissing...." Other pages: "tiger cub and mama would kiss and then growl... wolf and her cub would kiss and then howl"
The story is beautifully rhymed, the illustrations are great, and not too overwhelming or abstract like some baby books, and it has this adorable refrain every few pages of "and sloth and her cub? STILL kissing goodnight!" ahh! just so freaking cute. Probably my favorite baby book I've found this year, and I try to make it more engaging for our son (because it's totally a mommy favorite) by lifting him upside down whenever they do the sloth refrain and giving him kisses, which he finds hilarious.
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