Baby Sleepy Baby. Written by Atinuke and illustrated by Angela Brooksbank. Candlewick Books 2021.
It’s bedtime for Sleepy Baby. It’s time to call on the winds, the clouds, the stars, and the moon to sail and rock your little one until dreams take over. Soothing language and deep, moonlit colors, evoke the warmth and tenderness of wrapping a child in nighttime’s embrace. A book that celebrates the moments families share with their sleepy babies at bedtime.
Lyrical and full of love, this gentle picture book—based on a song that Atinuke’s father sang to her in Nigeria—is the perfect bedtime lullaby.. I read this book three times in a row, seeing families I know and love reflected on these pages - such that this book felt incredibly intimate. Angela Brooksbank’s illustrations create a celestial experience alongside Atinuke’s lyrical words of sleepy time love.
– Wandering Bookseller
I have found my new favorite bedtime story. This book is just so endearing with its lyrical poetic flow and the adorable illustrations of this loving family and their dear, dear, chubby faced, curly haired baby, each one taking their turn, to soothe and rock the sleepy baby towards sleep. The illustrations are gorgeous with their soft, luminous colors. This book exudes love, family, joy, the feeling of security wrapped up in loved ones arms as well as wrapped in the embrace of the world through the wind, clouds, stars, and moon as they too wrap the babe in a loving embrace as it drifts off to dreamland.
– Eve Costarelli