Sheep, Sheep, Sheep, Help Me Fall Asleep

by Arlene Alda

Sheep, Sheep, Sheep, Help Me Fall Asleep

Written and with photographs by Arlene Alda

When you can't fall asleep, counting sheep is certainly one way to make you drowsy. On the other hand, when you don't want to fall asleep, counting other animals doing silly things is clearly a great way to keep yourself awake! And that's just what this preschooler does as soon as Mom leaves the room.

Children and parents alike will find delight in this multifunctional book. It's a rhyming bedtime reader, a counting book, and an animal identification picture book -- it's three books in one!

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Animals

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Arlene Alda graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hunter College, received a Fulbright Scholarship, and realized her dream of becoming a professional clarinetist, playing in the Houston Symphony under the baton of Leopold Stokowski. She switched careers when her children were young and became an award-winning photographer and author who has written nineteen books, including Just Kids from the Bronx. She is the mother of three daughters and the grandmother of eight. She and her husband, actor Alan Alda, live in New York City and Long Island.

Reviews

[Paula Greenfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a children's counting book amount things is if a fun read for adult and preschooler.

[Olivia Yeadon · Rating 5 out of 5]

mom read this to me every day

[Melissa Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very cute! Little Ones will love this sweet bedtime story.

[Cc Fortenberry]

This book is about a child who cannot go to sleep. His mother tells him to count sheep, but when he closes his eyes, he sees all these other animals. As he gets sleepier, he begins to see a few sheep until he is almost asleep and he sees too many to count.

I like this book because it's cute and it rhymes. I wish it had more pictures, but it goes down as a classic to me because it's what I was read as a child when I couldn't go to sleep.

I would use this book in therapy for helping with rhyming and prediction, learning animals and animal sounds, and counting among other things.

[Alice]

Rhyming

[Sarah Stumphf · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really cute story and beautiful photos of animals.