Soft outlines, rounded figures, and a warm pastel palette set the soothing visual stage for a bedtime book starring parent and child elephants. The parent runs through a litany of possible ways to pass the nighttime hours (“I could rock you in my arms. I could gaze at you all night. I could whisper lots of stories till the darkness turns to light”) while the illustrations show the baby being carried upstairs, read to, and put into its small bed, because eventually “there comes a time for sleeping, and our sleepy time is now.” Sure to stand up to repeat readings, this lullaby for the very young resonates with reassurance and love. (Ages birth–3 years)