Sleep Well: Why You Need to Rest (Your Health)

Kathy Feeney is a Capstone Press author.

Kindergarten-Grade 3-Two simply written titles that explain very briefly why exercise and getting enough sleep are important for children. Each spread has a full-color photograph that faces about four or five sentences of text. Moving has an activity pyramid and also discusses good nutrition. Sleep has a diagram of the sleep cycle and a discussion of somnambulism and nightmares. A "Guess What?" feature gives additional tidbits of information. In Moving, the "Hands On" feature suggests a fitness test and in Sleep, keeping a dream diary. Angela Royston's A Healthy Body (Heinemann Library, 1999) has a different activity pyramid and doesn't discuss nutrition. The emphasis in Susan Kent's Let's Talk about When You Have Trouble Going to Sleep (Rosen, 2000) is more specific.
Martha Gordon, formerly at South Salem Library, NY
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