My Bed: Enchanting Ways to Fall Asleep Around the World

On each spread, Bond describes a child’s bedstead in rhyming first-person perspective, paired with an informative contextualizing paragraph. “My bed unrolls on grasslands vast—it travels where I go,” reads one, which depicts the “wide-open steppes of Mongolia” in stitched greenery, alongside a cross-section of a white ger and its jewel-toned interior. Mavor’s immersive signature illustrations charm; the intricately stitched art, handcrafted from fabric, beads, wire, and yarn on embroidered fabric backgrounds, will assuredly catch readers’ attention. Endpapers feature a variety of animals, including an elephant, a crocodile, and a ryukin goldfish; spreads highlight the animal that might be found within each country’s environment—the elephant for India, crocodile for Ghana, and ryukin for Japan. This meditation on global similarities and differences is worth poring over for the fabric relief art alone. Back matter includes a note about the stitching. Ages 4–7. [em](Sept.) [/em]