This sequel to the award-winning Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean (2007 Teacher’s Choice & 2005 Mom’s Choice) takes readers on an around-the-world boat ride to learn how mammals sleep in or around ten major rivers of the world on all continents except Antarctica. Row down the Mississippi and watch two river otters slip into a hollow tree or look to the bank of the Brisbane River as a platypus pops into a hole and disappears into a narrow tunnel. Told in a soothing style, this book serves as a bedtime/naptime story for younger children or an animal geography book for older children. Adults may learn something, too!

Written by Gail Langer Karwoski

Illustrated by Connie McLennan

Available June 2008!

Purchase:

32 pg, 8.5" x 10", ages 4-9
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-9777423-4-9
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-934359-31-0
Lexile Level 1020 NC

Author/Illustrator Info:

Gail Langer Karwoski is an award-winning children’s book writer. River Beds: Sleeping in the World’s Rivers is a sequel to Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean, (Mom’s Choice Best Children’s Picture Book Author for 2005 and the 2007 Teacher’s Choice Children’s Book Award). Gail has also written Julie the Rockhound for Sylvan Dell as well as six other books for young readers including: Tsunami: The True Story of an April Fool’s Day Disaster and Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906. Gail and her husband live near the University of Georgia and have two bossy cats and two grown daughters.



Connie McLennan has been a successful freelance artist for almost 25 years since attending Academy of Art College in San Francisco. In addition to illustrating River Beds: Sleeping in the World’s Rivers, The Rainforest Grew All Around (watercolor and acrylic), Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean (oil) and Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud (watercolor) for Sylvan Dell Publishing, she also illustrated The Wishing Tree and Domitila. Connie has illustrated numerous textbooks, and has provided illustrations for children's books and magazines for Harcourt, Holt Reinhart & Winston, Scott Foresman, Scholastic and Weekly Reader. In addition to her various illustrations, Connie has done numerous advertising projects. Connie lives with her husband and teenage son in northern California.  www.conniemclennan.com