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Bernhard, Durga

While You Are Sleeping: A Lift-the-Flap Book of Time Around the World

24 pp. | Charlesbridge | February, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-1-57091-473-7 $14.95

(2) PS This picture book explanation of time zones opens with a mother and child sharing a book at ten p.m. in the Aleutian Islands. On the facing page "someone is getting dressed" at 9:00 a.m. in Nigeria. In total, nine simultaneous events are shown. Printed on glossy cardboard stock, the gouache illustrations, all round frames and gentle lines, visually echo the story's circularity.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2011