Putting the World to Sleep Author:Shelley Moore Thomas Graceful verse and lovingly crafted pictures combine in a bedtime book designed to be read, reread, and treasured. "A cumulative free-verse poem about the gradual falling of dusk and the rising of the moon. . . . The lines . . . are worthy of comparison to . . . Maurice Sendak's in delicate shading and distancing." -- School Library Journal, sta... more »rred review« less