Product Description

Is it time for bed already? Before a young child settles down for a peaceful sleep, she must bid her surroundings -- bear nose and dinosaur toes alike -- an affectionate goodnight.

This classic text by Ruth Krauss, originally published as eyes nose fingers toes, is brought to a new generation of sleepyheads by the best-selling illustrator Jane Dyer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #939300 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-01
• Released on: 2004-05-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

From School Library Journal
PreS–Dyer illustrates a text that was originally published as Eyes Nose Fingers Toes (Harper & Row, 1964; o.p.). Gentle rhymes tell the story of a toddler saying good night to her surroundings, her stuffed animals, and her mother. She snuggles her lamb, touches noses with her bear, and compares toes with her dinosaur. The simple spreads on which the baby bids good night to her toys are awash with soothing pastel watercolor backgrounds. While the stuffed animals are endearing, the child and her mother are not as appealing; they have old-fashioned, doll-like, and expressionless round faces delineated by a few simple lines and tiny rosebud mouths. The few pages where there is more color, detail, pattern, and activity work the best.–Shelley B. Sutherland, Niles Public Library District, IL
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From Booklist
PreS. Forty years after Krauss first published Eyes Nose Fingers Toes, Dyer gives the old favorite a new title and creates new, clear, beautiful watercolor pictures of a toddler cuddling a doll, nose to nose with a teddy bear, toe to toe with a soft dinosaur, then touching windows, doors, walls, floor, chairs, and finally tucked in bed, "sleepyhead." The elemental rhyme and the spacious pictures from the toddler's viewpoint make this a great companion to Margaret Wise Brown's classic Good Night, Moon. Hazel Rochman
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About the Author
Ruth Krauss, a member of the experimental Writer's Laboratory at the Bank Street School in New York City in the 1940s, imaginatively used humor and invented words to create some of the very first books for children that highlighted the child s inner life. She collaborated with some of the greatest illustrators in children s literature, including her husband, Crockett Johnson.

Customer Reviews

Mother/Preschool Teacher
This book is a must! It is a very simple yet very educational book for preschoolers. You can read the bed time story and along the way ask them to pick out their body parts that are mentioned in the story. I actually read this book to my 1 year old and he loves it. He loves to look at the wonderful pictures. Great bed time ritual!!

Eyes, Nose, Fingers, Toes, Lips, Hair... Everywhere?
We can only be thankful that Ruth Krauss became stumped at this point. Or figured that with all the ensuing goodnights that this was adequate amateurish rhyming to fill the space of an entire preschool book. That the rhyme didn't continue to read "teeth, gums, dismembered thumbs..." is surely a blessing.

The book has such pretty whimsical artwork. That's why we checked it out from the local library. The artwork doesn't make up for the insipid little rhyme that immediately is branded upon one's brain. A couple months later my daughter insists on going about chanting this rhyme that is all at once catchy, annoying and mildly reminiscent of a serial killer in the making.

We're currently working on "These Books Have Rhymes That Don't Suck" therapy in the hopes of rehabilitating her.

Awesome book!!
My daughter LOVES this book. I originally checked it out at the library and we loved it so much that we bought it. It's nicely written and the pictures are adorable. I'd recommend it to everyone.