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Să dormi ca un tigru
O fetiță căreia nu îi este somn vrea să știe dacă toate câte sunt pe lume merg la culcare. Părinții îi răspund atenți și delicați, plimbând-o prin lumea animalelor și a obiceiurilor lor de somn.
Da, toate dorm, de la melcii cei mici până la tigrul cel puternic și balenele care se rotesc în largul oceanului. Și va adormi și ea pe negândite, ca un tigru scufundat în poveste.
Ilustrațiile cu texturi suprapuse și culori feerice ale Pamelei Zagarenski au un hipnotism aparte, făcând mai ușoară trecerea spre poveste și apoi spre lumea viselor.
Da, toate dorm, de la melcii cei mici până la tigrul cel puternic și balenele care se rotesc în largul oceanului. Și va adormi și ea pe negândite, ca un tigru scufundat în poveste.
Ilustrațiile cu texturi suprapuse și culori feerice ale Pamelei Zagarenski au un hipnotism aparte, făcând mai ușoară trecerea spre poveste și apoi spre lumea viselor.
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July 7, 2017
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We started reading Sleep Like a Tiger and right away we recognized the illustrations containing the crowns. We were introduced to Pamela Zagarenski after reading Henry & Leo earlier this year. This story focuses on a girl who doesn’t want to go to sleep. She asks her parents, “Does everything in the world go to sleep?” They explain that not every animal sleeps at night, but most do, especially the tiger. He sleeps a lot during the day too. She imagines the animals while she tries to cozy in for a good nights sleep.
This book is sure to relax anyone before sleep. The illustrations are so colorful and addicting. Paired with this story, it’s a PERFECT bedtime book and a favorite we’ve read this year.
5*****
We started reading Sleep Like a Tiger and right away we recognized the illustrations containing the crowns. We were introduced to Pamela Zagarenski after reading Henry & Leo earlier this year. This story focuses on a girl who doesn’t want to go to sleep. She asks her parents, “Does everything in the world go to sleep?” They explain that not every animal sleeps at night, but most do, especially the tiger. He sleeps a lot during the day too. She imagines the animals while she tries to cozy in for a good nights sleep.
This book is sure to relax anyone before sleep. The illustrations are so colorful and addicting. Paired with this story, it’s a PERFECT bedtime book and a favorite we’ve read this year.
5*****
April 20, 2022
Gentle and beautifully illustrated account of a child going to bed, despite asserted lack of sleepiness. I loved that the parents agree she doesn't have to sleep instead of fighting.
July 24, 2019
I love the artwork in this story. It’s so whimsical and colorful with plenty to discover in the pictures. This is about a child not ready to go to sleep. That is both of our kids, but mostly the nephew. He is never ready to stop. He doesn’t want to miss anything. They are very wiggly and they can toss for an hour or more before they fall asleep. It is finally beginning to get better.
So this little kid in the story claims not to be tired and the parents are like, ok, just put on your pajamas and so on. Then the kid asks about all these animals and if they sleep like the bat, bear and tiger. So as the kid is finally falling asleep, he sees himself like each animal. It is a lovely story.
The niece enjoyed the artwork and said the story was ok. She gave this 3 stars. The nephew agreed, but he did like the big tiger. He said he would sleep with a tiger in his bed too if he could. He also wanted to see if he could sleep hanging off the bunk bed like a bat and that was a hard no because he might really try to. He gave this 3 stars too.
So this little kid in the story claims not to be tired and the parents are like, ok, just put on your pajamas and so on. Then the kid asks about all these animals and if they sleep like the bat, bear and tiger. So as the kid is finally falling asleep, he sees himself like each animal. It is a lovely story.
The niece enjoyed the artwork and said the story was ok. She gave this 3 stars. The nephew agreed, but he did like the big tiger. He said he would sleep with a tiger in his bed too if he could. He also wanted to see if he could sleep hanging off the bunk bed like a bat and that was a hard no because he might really try to. He gave this 3 stars too.
October 19, 2012
This is the one. This is the book.
It's been a good year for picture books - I am thinking of Ruby and her pet glacier, Klassen's second hat book, Lily Loves, and Hamweenie - but this book, which is both lyrical "lying as still as an otter floating in the stream" and matter-of-fact "Our dog is sleeping right now, curled up in a ball on the couch, where he's not supposed to be;" which is illustrated using fascinating textures and beautifully scribed lines; and which boasts a story that arcs gently and symmetrically to a dreamy conclusion, is my favorite of 2012.
But am I going to mention this? Oh god I think I have to. It is a damn shame that the cover of this book is EXTREMELY reminiscent of another, stupider, go-to-bed book.
It's been a good year for picture books - I am thinking of Ruby and her pet glacier, Klassen's second hat book, Lily Loves, and Hamweenie - but this book, which is both lyrical "lying as still as an otter floating in the stream" and matter-of-fact "Our dog is sleeping right now, curled up in a ball on the couch, where he's not supposed to be;" which is illustrated using fascinating textures and beautifully scribed lines; and which boasts a story that arcs gently and symmetrically to a dreamy conclusion, is my favorite of 2012.
But am I going to mention this? Oh god I think I have to. It is a damn shame that the cover of this book is EXTREMELY reminiscent of another, stupider, go-to-bed book.
May 31, 2023
While the presented narrative of Mary Logue's Sleep Like a Tiger is a sweet and tender bedtime story, and perfect for children who might not want to go to bed, who might claim they are not tired and thus do not even need to go to bed (and I do love the parents' reverse psychology, and how after being presented with diverse animals going to sleep, resting, and finally, of course, a tiger, the little girl is indeed both ready and willing to enter the land of sleep and dreams), I for one (and their Caldecott Honour designation quite notwithstanding) have not really all that much enjoyed Pamela Zagarenski's accompanying illustrations.
Well, actually, the above is not entirely true, as the depictions of the different sleeping animals are in fact wonderful, both realistic and imaginative at the same time, but the visual renderings of the human figures encountered in Sleep Like a Tiger just feel too strangely stylised to and for me, with especially the stark and pale facial features of the little girl and her parents appearing even a bit potentially uncanny, not to mention that their appendages such as arms seem more like long tentacles and thus not in any way natural (and while I indeed much enjoy abstract and stylised art, I do not as a rule tend to appreciate a combination of natural and unnatural, and Pamela Zagarenski's rather strangely conceptualised human figures really just do not mesh all that well with her realistically depicted animal illustrations). Still, I would much recommend Sleep Like a Tiger, as the text is absolutely golden, and well, let's face it, art is in the eye of the beholder, and I do know that many really enjoy Pamela Zagarenski's illustrative style.
Well, actually, the above is not entirely true, as the depictions of the different sleeping animals are in fact wonderful, both realistic and imaginative at the same time, but the visual renderings of the human figures encountered in Sleep Like a Tiger just feel too strangely stylised to and for me, with especially the stark and pale facial features of the little girl and her parents appearing even a bit potentially uncanny, not to mention that their appendages such as arms seem more like long tentacles and thus not in any way natural (and while I indeed much enjoy abstract and stylised art, I do not as a rule tend to appreciate a combination of natural and unnatural, and Pamela Zagarenski's rather strangely conceptualised human figures really just do not mesh all that well with her realistically depicted animal illustrations). Still, I would much recommend Sleep Like a Tiger, as the text is absolutely golden, and well, let's face it, art is in the eye of the beholder, and I do know that many really enjoy Pamela Zagarenski's illustrative style.
October 29, 2012
It gives me shivers to read something new that I can guarantee will be considered a classic years from now. Absolutely gorgeous book.
February 2, 2013
God save the Eastern European illustrators (okay, so maybe she's not originally from Europe--I don't know)! Anyway, her style is highly reminiscent of Dusan Kallay, Peter Sis, Stepan Zavrel. Zagarenski is the hero in this book. I was smitten on the second spread when the mom and the girl showed up with little wheels under their feet. These seemed to represent motion, but then throughout the rest of the book they showed up in all sorts of odd places where no motion was needed. The entire composition style avoids stark diagonal lines that would normally indicate movement or high intensity dynamics. Everything stays vertical and horizontal, helping emphasize the texture she does so well. I had to sit and look at the whale pages for a good, long time. All this old-world genius wasted on a story about parents using reverse psychology to get their girl to go to sleep. Gads. I was so waiting for the girl to pull a Miyazaki/Sendak move and somehow find her way out into the wonderland she imagined on the first spread--it had such promise!
February 27, 2013
This is a story about a little girl who is not sleepy and doesn’t want to go to bed. The wise parents say that she should just get her pajamas on, or wash her face and brush her teeth. They don’t get angry or upset about her saying she isn’t sleepy. Instead they gently guide her to her bed and talk about all sorts of animals who sleep and how they sleep. It is a nice, comforting and calming story to read just before bedtime.
However, the best part of this book are the illustrations. There is so much detail in each picture. This is one of those picture books that will be read over and over again just so readers can look at different parts of each illustration. Such as the simple touches of putting crowns on the heads of the girl and her parents to make them a royal family or the foreshadowing of what animals will be talked about based on the various animal toys scattered around the girl’s bedroom. And the detail doesn’t stop with elements in the illustrations, there are even details within the illustrations. The textures that were chosen as part of a blanket or an animal’s skin/fur make the pictures richer. Patient readers will calm down reading this book just because they will have to slow down to look at the wealth of information portrayed in each picture.
Well done, well done.
However, the best part of this book are the illustrations. There is so much detail in each picture. This is one of those picture books that will be read over and over again just so readers can look at different parts of each illustration. Such as the simple touches of putting crowns on the heads of the girl and her parents to make them a royal family or the foreshadowing of what animals will be talked about based on the various animal toys scattered around the girl’s bedroom. And the detail doesn’t stop with elements in the illustrations, there are even details within the illustrations. The textures that were chosen as part of a blanket or an animal’s skin/fur make the pictures richer. Patient readers will calm down reading this book just because they will have to slow down to look at the wealth of information portrayed in each picture.
Well done, well done.
May 27, 2015
This Caldecott Award winner is a bedtime story about a young girl who isn’t tired and doesn’t want to go to sleep. Her parents are very present to her, and engage in her conversation, though they insist she must put on her pajamas and get ready for bed. She challenges them with questions about whether or not everything has to go to sleep. She climbs into bed and begins inquiring about different animals and whether or not they sleep. This dialogue reminded me of a version of the endless “what if…” questions asked by so many children. Finally, the parents leave the girl alone in her room and tell her she can stay up all night if she’d like, but instead she falls asleep like all the animals she and her parents discussed.
The illustrations are very beautiful, and immensely enriched the story. I highly recommend this book for children preschool age and older. I’m sure that most children would be captivated by the illustrations, and would likely engage in conversation about them as the book is read to them.
The illustrations are very beautiful, and immensely enriched the story. I highly recommend this book for children preschool age and older. I’m sure that most children would be captivated by the illustrations, and would likely engage in conversation about them as the book is read to them.
May 14, 2017
4.5 out of 5
Such a beautiful, beautiful book!
Mary Logue's laconic prose is both very straightforward and surprisingly evocative. For example, when the little girl announced that she was "still wide awake," her "parents said that was fine. But she should wash her face and brush her teeth. So she did. It felt good to be nice and clean. Then, because she loved climbing into her bed, she did, stretching her toes down under the crisp sheets, lying as still as an otter floating in a stream." Ah, Logue's language is so lovely and soothing!
And Pamela Zagarenski's extremely detailed dream-like mixed media paintings on wood are simply gorgeous:
Such a beautiful, beautiful book!
Mary Logue's laconic prose is both very straightforward and surprisingly evocative. For example, when the little girl announced that she was "still wide awake," her "parents said that was fine. But she should wash her face and brush her teeth. So she did. It felt good to be nice and clean. Then, because she loved climbing into her bed, she did, stretching her toes down under the crisp sheets, lying as still as an otter floating in a stream." Ah, Logue's language is so lovely and soothing!
And Pamela Zagarenski's extremely detailed dream-like mixed media paintings on wood are simply gorgeous:
August 12, 2018
This is a rich, effective bed time story that spins the child into a delicious sense of the magical and I absolutely love this book. Mary is a gentle soul who knows how to capture whimsy and love in a brief story with marvelous pictures.
December 11, 2013
Beautifully illustrated book about a little girl who is not sleepy at all.
December 12, 2017
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January 28, 2022
Text-to Self Connection
This story is about a little girl that tries to avoid bedtime by asking her parents questions about various animals sleeping patterns. This story reminds me of myself as a child. I never wanted to go asleep. I was afraid that I might miss something. It was thrilling to be awake as the whole world would be sleeping. I knew that in various parts of the world, this was not the case. But, I still liked telling myself that. During this time I would read or watch tv. My mother never let me stay up too late on school nights, but during the summer she would let me stay up late.
This story is about a little girl that tries to avoid bedtime by asking her parents questions about various animals sleeping patterns. This story reminds me of myself as a child. I never wanted to go asleep. I was afraid that I might miss something. It was thrilling to be awake as the whole world would be sleeping. I knew that in various parts of the world, this was not the case. But, I still liked telling myself that. During this time I would read or watch tv. My mother never let me stay up too late on school nights, but during the summer she would let me stay up late.
January 15, 2013
This is the story of a little girl who just wasn’t sleepy at bedtime. Her parents agreed that she didn’t have to head right to bed, but she did have to put on her pajamas. Then she had to wash her face, and that felt good. She climbed into bed, because she loved the feeling of the sheets. Then she asked about whether everything in the world sleeps. Her parents explain that yes, like the dog being asleep on the couch where he shouldn’t be. The book turns to explain about different animals and how they sleep from the upside down bats to floating whales to hibernating bears. After talking, her parents let her stay awake in her bed. The little girl begins to sleep like each of the animals, curling up like the dog, folding her arms like bat wings, finding the warmest spot like a cat. Until finally, she is asleep like the strong tiger.
Oh what a bedtime story! I had heard great things about this book and at first saw beautiful illustrations and a fairly normal story, but that changes and becomes something very special. Once the little girl is in bed and talking about the animals, the language becomes more poetic and filled with imagery. It is warm, cozy and infinitely inviting.
Zagarenski’s illustrations have a richness about them that enhances this bedtime tale. Thanks to the golden crowns, they have an illuminated manuscript feel. There is plenty of texture and pattern, but also a modern zing to the illustrations. They are entirely winning.
This glorious bedtime story is a real treat to read aloud. Get your own jammies on and cuddle up, I promise you will be dozing in no time, just like a tiger. Appropriate for ages 3-5.
Oh what a bedtime story! I had heard great things about this book and at first saw beautiful illustrations and a fairly normal story, but that changes and becomes something very special. Once the little girl is in bed and talking about the animals, the language becomes more poetic and filled with imagery. It is warm, cozy and infinitely inviting.
Zagarenski’s illustrations have a richness about them that enhances this bedtime tale. Thanks to the golden crowns, they have an illuminated manuscript feel. There is plenty of texture and pattern, but also a modern zing to the illustrations. They are entirely winning.
This glorious bedtime story is a real treat to read aloud. Get your own jammies on and cuddle up, I promise you will be dozing in no time, just like a tiger. Appropriate for ages 3-5.
October 23, 2013
It's hard to write a new bedtime book that isn't trite and stale since the theme has been attempted so many times before, to different results — but I think we've found a new classic. The little girl in the story isn't sleepy — or so she repeatedly tells her unruffled parents, who nonetheless manage to get her to change into her pajamas, wash her face, brush her teeth and lie on the bed. Instead of nagging her to sleep, they even tell her that she can stay up all night if she wants. Reverse psychology perhaps, but it works.
Then, as with all kids who try to delay their bedtime, the girl starts bombarding her parents with questions, beginning with the thought-provoking,"Does everything in the world go to sleep?" which the author uses to expand on different animals' sleeping habits in a lyrical yet matter-of-fact way: "They curl up like a cinnamon roll inside their shell" (on snails) or "They make a cozy den under the snow and sleep through winter" (on bears).
We love the believable dialogue between the inquisitive girl and her patient parents, but the artwork — and it is truly a work of art — is what makes the book outstanding. The style is at once dreamy, fairy-tale-like, whimsical, gentle and surreal, and every page has a wealth of details that beg to be discovered.
If you're wondering, the girl does fall asleep in the end, making this the perfect bedtime book.
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Then, as with all kids who try to delay their bedtime, the girl starts bombarding her parents with questions, beginning with the thought-provoking,"Does everything in the world go to sleep?" which the author uses to expand on different animals' sleeping habits in a lyrical yet matter-of-fact way: "They curl up like a cinnamon roll inside their shell" (on snails) or "They make a cozy den under the snow and sleep through winter" (on bears).
We love the believable dialogue between the inquisitive girl and her patient parents, but the artwork — and it is truly a work of art — is what makes the book outstanding. The style is at once dreamy, fairy-tale-like, whimsical, gentle and surreal, and every page has a wealth of details that beg to be discovered.
If you're wondering, the girl does fall asleep in the end, making this the perfect bedtime book.
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May 23, 2012
Keep your eye on this one--it's a future classic with some serious Caldecott potential! This is going to be my gift of choice for new babies and young children until every one I know I has a copy. The narrative is a beautiful bed time story, with a fairy-tale feel, about a little princess who does not want to go to sleep. Her wise parents tell her that she does not have to go to sleep, but she goes through the bedtime routine realizing that it's better to be in her pajamas, feel clean, and be snug in her bed. When she asks her parents if all animals sleep, this introduces a lovely bit of description and repetition of how each animal rests and how the little girl eventually settles down to sleep like a tiger herself. The illustrations are magic--with stunning details that will appeal to both kids and adults. As in classics like Goodnight Moon, kids will enjoy finding the different animals in their toy versions in the little girl's room. Parents will enjoy lines from Williams Blake's "Tyger, tyger..." and the bedtime story Mom and Dad are carrying around.
December 22, 2012
Really fine text (and how do you make a bedtime book, a theme so common in children's books, still seem fresh and new?) and imaginative, compelling illustrations make this picture a complete package. Zagarenski, illustrator of Red Sings from the Treetops, which was one of my favorites, has just the right touch here -- a bit of magical realism, with the pictures becoming more dreamlike as the girl falls asleep. I love how the parents don't argue about her not being sleepy, but just say okay, and give her a bedtime task (putting pj's on, brushing teeth). I love the patterns of the illustrations (in the wallpaper, the clothing), the stuffed tiger among the animals she sleeps with, the allusions to familiar and not so familiar animals sleeping patterns; the dog is "curled up in a ball on the couch, where he's not supposed to be" and later she "right where she was supposed to be." Most of the illustrations have an angular quality, yet the dog and the tiger seem wonderfully soft and textured. Much to appreciate here!
May 31, 2016
A little girl is not sleepy, but her parents persuade her to get ready for bed any way. In the process, she asks them if all animals sleep and soon she finds herself imitating many of the animals she discussed with her parents as she curls up for sleep.
The illustration style for this book is definitely eye-catching. It is very abstract and unique, not a style I usually like, but it really worked for this story. I love how tactful the little girl's parents are in getting her ready for bed. They should get some kind of parenting psychology award. Language arts teachers could use this when discussing similes and metaphors, which abound as the girl compares her actions to that of other sleepy animals.
The illustration style for this book is definitely eye-catching. It is very abstract and unique, not a style I usually like, but it really worked for this story. I love how tactful the little girl's parents are in getting her ready for bed. They should get some kind of parenting psychology award. Language arts teachers could use this when discussing similes and metaphors, which abound as the girl compares her actions to that of other sleepy animals.
June 11, 2013
Perhaps it is remembering my days with young children, but I do love a good sleepy book (hence the title of my blog: read to me tonight . Sleep Like a Tiger is a lovely gentle book where parents assure their little girl that she doesn't have to go to sleep, but this is how the whale sleeps, and the snail, and the dog and the tiger. The illustrations are truly lovely and invite close scrutiny: a key quality in a book parents might have to read again and again and again. This one is a keeper: borrow from the library, but buy soon after.
December 18, 2017
What a great bedtime story this would make. The young girl does not feel sleepy even though the sun has gone down. Her parents calmly tell her that she doesn't have to go to sleep...she just has to put on her pajamas, brush her teeth and wash her face and climb into bed...but then she can stay awake all night. The little girl asks if every animal sleeps. Her parents say yes and calmly discuss the sleep habits of several animals. Then the parents turn off the lights, tell her to go ahead and stay awake and they leave her room. The illustrations are just wonderful!
May 2, 2018
Her parents help a young girl understand that everyone sleeps, even animals. And then as she settles down, her various settling movements are compared to the animals discussed earlier in the book. Zagarenski's mixed media paintings on wood feature her signature crowns and wheels. In my opinion, the animals look fairly natural, while the humans are highly stylized, an interesting combination. Not my favorite of 2012's Caldecott Honor list, but a pleasant bedtime story for youngsters.
February 2, 2017
If you liked this book, you might also enjoy:
✱ Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey
✱ The Quiet Book
✱ Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey
✱ The Quiet Book
March 27, 2013
This is a wonderful story about settling down for sleep. The narrative is soothing and the illustrations are muted, perfect for bedtime reading. We really enjoyed reading this book together, even though our girls are getting a bit too young for books like this.
January 25, 2013
3.5 stars -- I enjoyed the unusual illustration style, and sleep is always a favorite pastime of mine. However, when I read these "bedtime" books, I can't help but think of the infamous parody "Go the **** to Sleep"!
September 18, 2012
A luminous, magical tale lyrically beautiful and visually exquisite.
March 17, 2015
3-16-15
I read this to Jack tonight and despite being overly tired, he watched me read it and reached for the pages. I can tell he liked listening to me and looking at the pictures.
I read this to Jack tonight and despite being overly tired, he watched me read it and reached for the pages. I can tell he liked listening to me and looking at the pictures.
February 11, 2013
Another good book for Pajama Days and bedtime themed storytimes.
July 31, 2013
Great story, stunningly beautiful illustrations. This is the kind of book you could blow up the pictures to make into the wall art for your kids' room. Loved it.
September 3, 2014
Wonderful bed-time story book.
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