Description Share Post So Tired, So Wide Awake Susanne Strasser, translated by Melody Shaw (Gecko Press) What will it take for everyone to go to sleep? It seems it’s a night of needing sleep! First off Seal’s out on ‘a quick trip to the bathroom’. It means ‘door open- door shut’. Thereafter, there’s a ‘sciff, scuff, sciff’ as Crocodile slides off ‘to clean [her] teeth‘. However, Pelican’s reason for sleeplessness is because she’s thirsty. Once more it’s ‘door open- door shut’. It seems that all the friends are So Tired, So Wide Awake. Susanne Strasser‘s Can I Sit in the Middle? introduced readers to Seal, Hedgehog, Fox, Donkey and Pelican, However there’s another friend who seems to be alone and sleeping. Could the child be the lure for the animals? Thereafter, might they be sleepless because they want to share the night in the child’s bed? However not all of them can be there, can they? After all, wouldn’t it be a crush for the child? Thereafter, wouldn’t the child be left sleepless? However, might there be one way to clear the room? Bookwagon suggests that So Tired, So Wide Awake is a delightful and funny picture book to share with our youngest readers. The repetition, sounds, opportunities to predict and animals all add up to a really enjoyable story. Welcome aboard!
