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With its tranquil pace and soft pencil drawings, this teddy bear tale makes a potent bedtime antidote for wound-up children. Originally written in German, Buchholz's story progresses a bit unevenly, but his delicate pointillism more than compensates. A wakeful teddy bear revisits his activities of the day just past, and ponders what he might do tomorrow. His mental wanderings take him to a river, a meadow, a neighbor's house and a circus, where "in the evening quiet, the clown is playing a sleep song on his violin for the baby elephant." Inside the back cover is an envelope that contains a letter, labeled "To the Finder of the Red Balloon," and a picture for the reader to color and put under his or her pillow to bring "a beautiful dream" (the salutation refers to a mysterious letter-carrying balloon in the text). In both its language and its art, this nighttime dreamscape offers images sweet and soothing. Ages 3-up.

朦胧的月光照着大地，换上了星星睡裤的小熊却睡不着。他站在窗前，回想起白天那个有趣的海盗船游戏，聆听着马戏团传来的悠扬小夜曲，憧憬着美好一天的到来……最后在月光音乐家的摇篮曲中，小熊幸福地睡着了。本书用一只玩具小熊来表现孩子的情绪和行为，睡不着的小熊就是睡不着的孩子。布霍茨的画作中藏着一种神奇的宁静和令人感动的美丽，令人在美妙的宁静中思绪飞扬，一同畅游到那童话般的世界中。