Description:
The sun is setting and it's almost night. Children from various families say goodbye to friends--including the sun, trees, and flowers--and move inside to complete their bedtime routines. With vivid imagery and child-friendly poetry, each verse ends with the simple refrain, "We sleep when day is done."
Brief description:
Natalee Creech is a children's author who is equally at home in Canada, (where she grew up) in the U.S., (where she studied education) and in South Korea (where she taught for many years). She credits her passion for children's literature to parents who read to her nightly as a young child and modeled a love of books. Having worked as a teacher and librarian, she now spends her time reading, writing, and sharing stories with her own children.
Review Quotes:
"Lyrical and soothing, When Day Is Done gently reinforces the bedtime routine while assuring young ones another day awaits them after they rest. A lovely tuck-in story." --Annie Cronin Romano, author of Before You Sleep: A Bedtime Book of Gratitude and Night Train: A Journey from Dusk to Dawn.
"Soothing stanzas remind young children that people, animals, and plants all go to sleep at night. Beautifully written text is accompanied by soft illustrations featuring children with an array of skin tones." --Tina Cho, author of Rice from Heaven