If Animals Kissed Good Nightby Ann Whitford Paul
illustrated by David Walker
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
review copy provided by the publisher
This is my new baby shower gift book.
Reading this book as the last read aloud of the night is bound to result in lots of snuggling and kissing. What a great way to end the day!
The book starts out, "If animals kissed like we kiss goodnight, Sloth and her cub in late afternoon's light would hang from a tree and start kissing sooo slooowwwww...the sky would turn pink and the sun sink down low." Peacocks kiss with a fan dance, snakes kiss like rope loosely wound, walrus calf and papa kiss with whiskery swishes, elephant give a kiss and then a shower, "and Sloth and her cub? Still...kissing good night." Land and water and forest and Arctic and human animals kiss their way through the rest of the book, and you can probably guess what Sloth and her cub are doing after the child is tucked in with all her stuffed animals around her!
I saw Ann speak at SCBWI in summer '07 and she mentioned this book. It sounds even better than I'd imagined it. A Goodnight Gorilla with public displays of affection...
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