John Butler has written more than a dozen books for children and illustrated over sixty. His books have been published in more than twenty countries and won awards such as the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Book Award, IRA Teachers' Choice Awards, and Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year. He has had a long career in illustration, working for a very wide range of clients including Time magazine, "Sesame Street," and the Sunday Times. He lives in England.
"Luxuriantly illustrated. . . . Butler's soothing, restrained text
reads like a lullaby, but his full-bleed, double-spread animals
portraits are the stuff of wide-eyed wonder, especially when he
renders his subjects in close-up."—Publishers Weekly
"This delightful board book takes prereaders and beginning readers
on a midnight adventure from their own backyards to an exotic
jungle and places in between as animals leap, jump, and cavort
across the sturdy pages. . . . The realistic, softly colored
illustrations give an accurate portrayal of animals in their
natural habitats as they show kids some of the amazing things that
go on in the animal world when they are sleeping."—Booklist
In this luxuriantly illustrated counting book, towheaded Daisy learns from her mother that the animal world has been a busy place while she slept: one tiger hunted in the jungle, two mice made a nest in the hay and ever-growing groups of other species frolicked and flew. "And when you go to bed tonight," says Daisy's mother, "they'll all wake up again." Butler's (Little Sibu) soothing, restrained text reads like a lullaby, but his full-bleed, double-spread animals portraits are the stuff of wide-eyed wonder, especially when he renders his subjects in close-up. The mixed-media pictures exude a romantic, unabashedly Victorian sensibility: the solitary tiger stands nobly in sunset, while four baby owls huddled together in an oak tree express a poignant vulnerability. The closing spread reveals that the aforementioned animals all reside in Daisy's room (six deer decorate her lampshade, seven geese "fly" in a mobile, etc.). Butler's menagerie makes for an attractive alternative to counting sheep at bedtime. Ages 1-5. (Nov.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
"Luxuriantly illustrated. . . . Butler's soothing, restrained text
reads like a lullaby, but his full-bleed, double-spread animals
portraits are the stuff of wide-eyed wonder, especially when he
renders his subjects in close-up."-Publishers Weekly
"This delightful board book takes prereaders and beginning readers
on a midnight adventure from their own backyards to an exotic
jungle and places in between as animals leap, jump, and cavort
across the sturdy pages. . . . The realistic, softly colored
illustrations give an accurate portrayal of animals in their
natural habitats as they show kids some of the amazing things that
go on in the animal world when they are sleeping."-Booklist
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