Tiger Can’t Sleep

Tiger Can’t Sleep

Written by S.J. Fore

Illustrated by R.W. Alley

Scholastic Inc., 2006

Fantasy

32 pages

In this story, a little boy tries his very best to fall asleep. However, the tiger in his closet will not stop making all kinds of noise. Every time the boy starts to fall asleep, the tiger decides to do something active. This frustrates the boy and keeps him from being able to fall asleep. Will the tiger ever go to sleep? Will the boy be able to go to sleep too? Find out by reading Tiger Can’t Sleep!

The illustrations in this book are very artistic. A viewer can tell that the illustrator, R. W. Alley, put a lot of work into the art created.  The illustrator seems to use pen and watercolors to portray the right illusion for the book. The illustrator also used horizontal and vertical lines to help the reader flow through each page. Nevertheless, Alley’s pictures go hand in hand with the text in the story.

I would recommend using this book in a first or second grade classroom. This book can be integrated into a classroom in three different ways. First, this book has plenty of onomatopoeias to introduce to a classroom full of students.  Secondly, this book can help with fluency work for students. Lastly, this book would be great for introducing vowel diphthongs to a struggling student.