In this gentle and comforting bedtime book by two award-winning creators, a mama sloth helps her baby to self-soothe while she’s making her way back to him.Baby sloth lives high up in the trees with his mama, where he loves to sleep between her and the moon. But one night he tumbles from her arms to land in a soft patch of leaves far below. “I’ll be there soon,” Mama sloth calls down to him. But sloths never get
anywhere soon. When Baby becomes worried, Mama finds clever ways to reassure and distract him using his senses of sight, sound, smell, and touch.
This beautifully told and enchantingly illustrated preschool read-aloud has the happiest of endings. It’s a bedtime delight that’s perfect for fans of
Owl Babies and
Kitten’s First Full Moon.
On sale: April 2, 2024
Age: 2-5 years
Grade: Up to Kindergarten
Page count: 0 Pages
ISBN: 9780593698204
Reading level: Lexile: AD430L | Fountas/Pinnell: K
Doreen Cronin is the author of many
New York Times bestselling books, including Caldecott Honor Book
Click, Clack, Moo and its sequels (with 8.5 million copies sold and over 20 years in print); and
Diary of a Worm and its sequels (7 million copies sold worldwide); as well as a host of other beloved picture books.
Brian Cronin is an internationally known illustrator whose work has appeared in the
New York Times, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, and many other publications throughout the world. He won the Society of Illustrators' Founders Award for his first book,
The Lost House, and a
New York Times Best Illustrated Award for
The Lost Picnic.
★ “Collaborators the Cronins show how the smell of yellow flowers, the sound of pink worms wriggling in fallen leaves, and the feel of blue moths fluttering all seem to light up the darkness by dint of the little sloth’s budding powers of observation-as-self-regulation." —
Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Brian Cronin expertly plays with shadow and light, the moon a guiding light. The shadowy, complex darkness results in a backdrop perfectly paired with the splashy hues of the night life. For such concise writing, the book has many layers of story, which means that there’s plenty for readers of all ages to take from its pages." —
Kirkus
