Denise Fleming's New Bedtime Book

Sleepy, Oh So Sleepy by Denise Fleming has a simple premise: babies of all types are falling asleep near their parents. Very little text is needed and Fleming's pulp paper illustrations are big and beautiful. From the yawning child of the front cover, to the ostrich, giraffe and elephant young, the babies featured in this book are dear and soft in dreams. This makes a sweet bedtime book to read to little ones.

Other favorite Fleming books:

Be Brave Storytime

 I'm Not Scared! by Jonathan Allen


 Sheila Rae, the Brave by Kevin Henkes


I Want My Light On!: A Little Princess Story by Tony Ross

 Melvin Might? (Trucktown) by John Scieszka


 Pouch! by David Ezra Stein

 Bear Feels Scared by Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman


Going On a Lion Hunt

Goin' on a lion hunt.

Goin to catch a big one.

I'm not afraid.

Look, what's up ahead?

Mud!

Can't go over it.

Can't go under it.

Can't go around it.

Gotta go through it. [Make sloshing sounds and move hands as if slogging]


Refrain.

Tree!

Can't go over it.

Can't go under it.

Can't go around it.

Gotta go through it. [Make gestures climbing up and down.]



Refrain

Gate!

Can't go over it.

Can't go under it.

Can't go around it.

Gotta go through it. [Make gate-opening gestures.]


Refrain

River!

Can't go over it.

Can't go under it.

Can't go around it.

Gotta go through it. [make swimming gestures]


Refrain
Grass!

Can't go over it.

Can't go under it.

Can't go around it.

Gotta go through it. Grass [move hands together and apart]


Refrain

Cave!

Can't go over it.

Can't go under it.

Can't go around it.

Gotta go through it. [act like you are feeling your way in a dark cave]


Feel yourself along the wall.

Oh, oh, what's this?

Something funny.

With a long soft thing on it's end!

With two sharp things!

Two big gleaming sharp things!

A LION!!!

Run for your life!


Run out of the cave!

Crawl through the grass!

Swim across the river!

Run through the gate!

Run around the tree!

Slosh through the mud!

Run into the house!

Close the door!

Run up the front stairs!

Crawl under your bed!

Run! It's the Monster Storytime!

 Five Ugly Monsters by Tedd Arnold


 Birthday Monsters! (Boynton on Board) by Sandra Boynton


 Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley


If You're A Monster And You Know It by  Rebecca  Emberley & Ed Emberley


 There Was An Old Monster! by Rebecca, Adrian & Ed Emberley

 The Monster at the End of this Book (Sesame Street) (Big Little Golden Book) by Jon Stone


 I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll, Illus. by Howard McWilliam (This one's for K & up)

Kitty Soft Storytime

 I Don't Want a Cool Cat! by Emma Dodd

 Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes

Katie Loves the Kittens by John Himmelman

Cat Count by Betsy Lewin


 Kittens! Kittens! Kittens! by Susan Meyers, Illus. by David Walker


 Posy by Linda Newbery & Catherine Rayner

 Frankie Works the Night Shift by Lisa Westberg Peters

 A Kitten Tale by Eric Rohmann

 There Are Cats in This Book by Vivian Schwartz


 What's Your Sound, Hound the Hound? (Cat the Cat) by Mo Willems


I Know a Cat (Sung to "Bingo")

I know a cat with perky ears,
And Kitty is her name-o,
K-I-T-T-Y, K-I-T-T-Y, K-I-T-T-Y,
And Kitty is her name-o.

She makes a sound and it's "meow",

And Kitty is her name-o,
K-I-T-T-Y, K-I-T-T-Y, K-I-T-T-Y,
And Kitty is her name-o.