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Summary
When baby brother is sleeping, it's time to be ever so quiet. There's no singing or jumping or laughing at all. Even the toys need to be quiet! The pirates stop firing their cannons, the knights stop fighting, even the tiger stops growling. But when baby wakes up . . . it's time to jump and laugh and sing again! And the knights begin to fight, the pirates fire up the cannons, and the tiger growls so loudly! Until it's time to be quiet once again.
In this beautifully and expressively illustrated picture book, we celebrate the love between siblings as a big brother uses his imagination to calm his urge to cause a ruckus so that his little brother can sleep.
Author Notes
Valeri Gorbachev lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Valeri Gorbachev lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1-The boy narrating this picture book politely asks each of his playmates to stop their noisy activities while his baby brother is sleeping. The clown, knights, tiger, pilot, train conductor, and pirates then become so quiet that the child can hear a fly. But when the baby wakes up, he can make as much noise as he wants-until it is time to settle down again. In the first half of the book, Gorbachev draws the boy in realistic proportion to the characters and their respective surroundings as he shushes them. But when the baby is awake, readers see that the youngster is playing with his toys and that their previous life-size appearance was in his imagination. The illustrations, done in watercolors, gouache, and ink, are cheerfully rendered in soft tones that capture the calm, then playful, actions in the story. This is a fine book about how a child should behave while a younger sibling is asleep.-Martha Simpson, Stratford Library Association, CT (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
With a refreshing take on sibling relationships, Gorbachev (What's the Big Idea, Molly?) celebrates not only a child's imagination but also his love and protective older brother mentality. "When my baby brother sleeps, I am very quiet," announces the book's hero, shown wearing a cowboy hat and tiptoeing past his brother's room. "Please stop laughing," he says to a clown, seen juggling beach balls in a circus ring, before the boy proceeds to bravely shush warring knights, a tiger, and even a train. Using engaging paintings and minimal text, Gorbachev sensitively zeroes in on the brother's emotions, especially when the baby wakes up, and both their smiles are full of joy. The remainder of the book includes the same characters seen before, revealed to be toys that the boy enthusiastically-and loudly-plays with ("And I am jumping and shouting and singing again!"). The toys are not generic plastic, but old-fashioned, well-loved playthings, so the images move easily between the book's make-believe and realistic scenes. Gorbachev's tenderhearted message is clear: good things come to those who wait for naptime to be over. Ages 3-5. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
While his baby brother sleeps, a boy quiets his toys with a "Shhh!" Once the baby wakes up, all returns to noisy normal--until the baby goes back to sleep. Without any conflict ("I am quiet again. Because I love my baby brother so"), there's not much story here. Gorbachev's engaging illustrations do most of the heavy lifting. Copyright 2010 of The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Gorbachev charms in this salute to naptime."When my baby brother sleeps, I am very quiet." But the young narrator also does his brotherly best to quiet other noisemakers. There is that clown whooping it up and the knights fighting and the plane buzzing and the train clanking and the pirates firing their cannons. "Shhh!" says the boy to each. But when baby brother wakesdrawn here by Gorbachev with a wonderful, round head and gaping maw, much in tune with the knight's potato nose, the pirates' bristly cheeks and the conductor's walrus of a mustacheall the various characters can get back to business, only this time as the young boy's toys. Gorbachev recreates the powerfully evocative atmosphere around naptimethe sepulchral hush, the strange amplification of the most minor sounds; readers can almost taste the afternoon's doldrums. His drawings are both delicate and taut: The lines are fine, and the colors are like a blush, while the various characters have been caught in mid-act, now frozen but ready to move when the word is given.A lovely incarnation of snoozetime. (Picture book. 3-5)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Bedtime isn't the only time parents need to wind frisky kids down a notch or three. When my baby brother sleeps, an apple-cheeked older brother says during nap time, I am very quiet. He tiptoes around to ask the giggling clown, battling knights, roaring tiger, dive-bombing pilot, chugging conductor, and saber-rattling pirates to please quiet down. But when baby wakes up, it is time to raise a joyful noise again, and the boy plunges headfirst back into his toys. Gorbachev places the boy in life-size scenes as he shushes the toys, then counterpoints that with him playing with the toy-size versions in the second half. He portrays the older brother as unfailingly warm, polite, and affectionate as he works to keep the volume low. Hypercharged kids may need a bit more convincing; this book is just the thing to come to the rescue during afternoon lulls. Because, as every older sibling knows, another nap time is always just around the corner.--Chipman, Ian Copyright 2010 Booklist