When my daughter was little I used to sing a lullaby to her every night, and when she got older she used to sing along with me. Our lullaby time was a special moment that we shared at the end of the day. In today's poetry title poet Jack Prelutsky presents some wonderful lullabies that can be spoken or sung.
Jack Prelutsky
Illustrated by Jui Ishida
Poetry Picture Book
For infants to children age 5
HarperCollins, 2013, 978-0-06-201467-2
For centuries adults have been singing songs to their
young children to relax them and lull them to sleep. Often the words in such
songs are soft, and they mention comforting things and convey dreamy images.
For this book poet Jack Prelutsky created twenty lullaby poems that can be sung
or spoken. With their gently rocking rhythms and soft words, the poems create
an environment that is soothing and calming.
We begin with a
poem about a train that visits dreamland. The train goes “chugging down the
track” and it will not return until morning, when its young passengers are
ready to emerge from their “dreams of wonder” and wake up.
Later in the
book we meet three animal families. We hear about a fox mother and her cub
resting in their den, and see a squirrel mother checking on her baby who is
fast asleep in a hole in a tree. We also see a mother pig and her seven little
piglets snoozing on hay in their pen. These are scenes of tranquility and we
are told that “soon my baby / will slumber by me.”
With wonderful
little poems and soft illustrations that seem to glow on the page, this is a
book that would make a wonderful gift for adults who have a new baby in the
family.
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