My Bed: Enchanting Ways to Fall Asleep Around the World, written by Rebecca Bond, reviewed by Judy Hauser

Summary: This book is an interesting story of how children sleep in different countries. The beautiful illustrations, by Salley Mavor, are colorful and hand-stitched. The intricacy of the illustrations adds so much to the descriptions for each area of the world. Children will learn how other children sleep, where they sleep and what they sleep on. They will learn that the climate impacts where children sleep as well as the nature and style of the dwellings. Some children sleep inside and some outside. It is a short history of sleep that will be of interest to children. A bonus illustration of an animal representing each country will provide some extra interest and discussion for children. The book will show children that there are similarities, in something such as sleeping, throughout the world and that the differences are not that far apart. 

Straight Talk for Librarians: A good comparison of children in different countries and how and where they sleep. Something children will relate to and, most likely, find fun and interesting.