Sleepy- O!
Author: Harriet Zieffert
Illustrated by Laura Rader
“What’ll we do with this baby-o, if she won’t go to sleepy-o? Rock her soft, rock her hard; Rock her into the chicken yard!”
This children’s book was made from a popular Appalachian folksong, to get babies to fall asleep while their parents would go square dancing.
In this book the baby-o will not fall asleep no matter what they do to her. They try singing, dancing, changing her diaper, rocking her, and they even try taking her to her grandparents house. But nothing will work. Until her sister finally finds the solution. She realizes that all along the baby just needed a nice quite space for her to fall asleep.
I really enjoyed this book because I can relate to it. Pretty soon I will be having a crying baby of my own :) and will be faced with the problem of what to do to when she is crying and also putting her to sleep. This book shows cute ways of doing that and I just really enjoyed reading it.
One of the ways I could use this book in the classroom would be to sing along to it. Also this book has pretty easy vocabulary and is very repetitive so the kids would learn new words fast. One of my table members also mentioned that maybe we could play this song right before the kids take a nap. It can be used in many ways.
That is so cute! I love how you related it to yourself and your little baby! i think this is great for a younger classroom to show children to be quiet so everyone can sleep and be comfortable because getting children to calm down is always the hardest part.
ReplyDeleteI really like that this book is based off of an Appalachian folk song. Also, I agree that the repetition could be useful.
ReplyDeleteThis book may not be too useful for the grades I plan to teach, but I really hope that you use it with your daughter when she is born. It's a cute book.