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by Timothy Glass This book is the second in the Sleepytown Beagle series, with books three and four due later this year. In this story, Ben Perry doesn’t feel like going to sleep and neither does his Beagle puppy, Panda. The two of them get scared when they see the big oak tree outside the window moving in the wind. Ben’s two older and wiser Beagles, Gunner and Penny explain that it’s time to pay a visit to Sleepytown, where, "Only goodness is allowed". To ease their fears, Penny relates a story of how she got scared by 4th of July fireworks and ran away from home. After spending a night crying under a bridge, she met a friendly Beagle who sent her off to Sleepytown and the next day Mr. and Mrs. Perry came to get her. Somehow, Penny states the moral of the whole book, "My story has a very happy ending, but it is never good to run away." I was confused as to how a story that seemed to be about going to sleep turned into a quick lesson on not running away from home. The actual plot is a little disjointed. If the author had stuck to a more concise tale about the joys of drifting off to sleep, I would have enjoyed it a lot more. As it stands, my 7 month old daughter just loves the cover illustration, but I probably won’t read the story with her when she’s older. |
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