Special Storytime: Bob Shea

Artists & Authors
For Families
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Reading Library

Free with Museum admission

It’s sleepy time for Lion and Penguin. Correction: it should be sleepy time for Lion and Penguin, but Lion’s eyes aren’t tired, and his ears would like a story. Penguin, however, is tired and nods off into sweet candy dreams—until a noise wakes him. “Oh, are you awake?” asks Lion sweetly, seated before a drum set. “Let’s have that story, then!” “Not now. It is time to close your eyes and dream dreams.” And so it goes, with an ever-more-disgruntled Penguin trying to nod off while an exuberant Lion innocently practices his drumming, bounces on his squeaky trampoline, and munches on his crunchy chips. Will Penguin need to resort to extreme measures to get his friend to sleep, or has the answer been there all along? 

Join us for a special storytime as author Bob Shea reads from his new book, Oh, Are You Awake?, a book that is sure to delight young readers—and their caregivers—whether at naptime, bedtime, or anytime!

Book signing to follow program. Can’t make the event? You may reserve signed books online.

Cover illustration for "Oh, Are You Awake?: showing a lion playing drums, with a penguin on its head.

Jarvis, Cover illustration for Oh, Are You Awake?, by Bob Shea (Candlewick). ©2024 Jarvis.

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