The story is beautifully and simply told making it accessible for even the youngest of readers. A new world of choice and opportunity is opening up for them! I love that one of these concerns their future education. Siba and Saba no longer look back on events that have happened– and objects they have lost – but events and objects that lie in the future. As the story progresses, however, so do their dreams. Thankfully, they don’t lose each other! The sisters find the things they have lost in their dreams snapshots of nature in action (a leaping impala and a fluttering sunbird) show what distracted them from keeping a closer eye on their belongings. Siba and Saba lose things every day – sweaters, slippers, sandals, a sash, a shawl lots of things that start with ‘s’, in fact. Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl and Sandra van Doorn have just brought out a new title with Lantana Publishing, Sing to the Moon, but I’m starting with this one, Sleep Well, Siba and Saba, their first picture book collaboration published in 2017. Rather than looking back on events that have happened and things they have lost, the sisters start to dream ahead about their future. Siba and Saba lose things every day, only to find them again in their dreams.
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