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Nov 13, 2010 Ronyell rated it really liked it

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Uri Shulevitz, who is well known for illustrating the Caldecott Medal Award-winning book, “The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship,” has illustrated a cute picture book called “So Sleepy Story,” which is about a sleepy house full of sleepy occupants. “So Sleepy Story” may have a simplistic story, but Uri Shulevitz’s illustrations make this book worth reading!

There was once a sleepy, sleepy house where there was a sleepy table, sleepy chairs, sleepy pictures, sleepy cuckoo-clock, sleepy walls, Uri Shulevitz, who is well known for illustrating the Caldecott Medal Award-winning book, “The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship,” has illustrated a cute picture book called “So Sleepy Story,” which is about a sleepy house full of sleepy occupants. “So Sleepy Story” may have a simplistic story, but Uri Shulevitz’s illustrations make this book worth reading!

There was once a sleepy, sleepy house where there was a sleepy table, sleepy chairs, sleepy pictures, sleepy cuckoo-clock, sleepy walls, sleepy dishes, sleepy shelves, a sleepy chair with a sleepy cat on it and a sleepy boy. Everyone’s sleeping until some colorful musical notes come in through the window…

Uri Shulevitz has done a great job with illustrating this book as it is both surreal and creative at the same time. I loved the way that Uri Shulevitz draws sleepy faces on everything, including the furniture and the trees (even though the idea of having mysterious eyes on you while you are sleeping sounds a little creepy, but this is a fantasy children’s book, right?). I also loved the way that Uri Shulevitz illustrates the sleepy world in dull colors, like blue, black and grey, and when the colorful musical notes come pouring into the house, the images become more colorful and vibrant as the musical notes fills the sleepy house with music. I also loved the way that Uri Shulevitz makes this book about a whole house of occupants fall asleep until music comes in, since this plot strongly reminds me of Audrey Wood’s “The Napping House” except that “The Napping House” does not have various faces plastered on walls and all matter of furniture!

Now the reason why I did not give this book a five star rating is because I thought that the story was a bit too simplistic for my tastes as there was nothing spectacular about the story. I mean, I liked the idea about various furniture having faces indicating that they are sleepy, but the way that the story is worded such as this phrase: “Sleepy chairs by sleepy table, sleepy pictures on sleepy walls, sleepy cuckoo-clock by sleepy dishes on sleepy shelves and a sleepy cat on a sleepy chair, ” sort of made this story lack an actual plot as it was “sleepy” this and “sleepy” that, meaning that the book overused the word “sleepy” and it seems like this story was not going anywhere.

Overall, “So Sleepy Story” might have a simplistic story that might bore some children, but the illustrations alone made this book a treat to read over and over again! I would recommend this book to children ages three and up since the wording not too complicated for smaller children to understand. ...more

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