A Board-Book goodnight story that features endangered animal babies around the world nestling down to sleep.

Here is a bedtime board book featuring endangered animals. Baby pandas, wallabies, polar bears, red wolves, tigers, spotted owls, and Key deer nestle down for the night while a human mother reads her children to sleep and a full moon shines through the window. Brief, child-friendly animal descriptions follow the story. This bedtime story lets parents decide whether or not to introduce the concept of endangered species to the lovely, gentle, soothing poem.

Terry Pierce was a Montessori teacher for 22 years before writing children’s books. Her 22 books include Tae Kwon Do! (Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of 2007); Mama Loves You So; Blackberry Banquet; Mother Goose Rhymes (a 2007 AEP Distinguished Achievement Award Winner), and My Busy Green Garden (page 69, a Cooperative Children’s Book Center Best Book of 2018). She serves on the board of the educational nonprofit organization Whaletimes, Inc., and is an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.

Carol Heyer has illustrated 32 children’s picture books including Humphrey’s First Christmas and Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude, winner of eight state awards, as well as several Hank Zipzer books written by Henry Winkler. Formerly she was a production designer and writer of feature films including Thunder Run (1986) and illustrated game materials for Dungeons & Dragons.

Mother Earth’s Lullaby (Board Book)