cover image Lullaby Moons and a Silver Spoon

Lullaby Moons and a Silver Spoon

Brooke Dyer. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $15.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-316-17474-9

With more than 20 poems ranging from Eugene Field's classic ""Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"" to Nancy Willard's never-before-published ""Rock Me,"" Lullaby Moons and a Silver Spoon: A Book of Bedtime Songs and Rhymes, illus. by Brooke Dyer, possesses a pleasingly soporific charm. Dyer's fanciful watercolors appear in framed spreads throughout. Her North Wind resembles Santa Claus, and when the apple-cheeked moon, who slumbers throughout the collection, awakens on the final spread for Christina Rossetti's ""Lullaby, Oh Lullaby!"" the effect is quite climactic.