You learn something new every day. Although I am the sort of person who wonders about all kinds of completely random things, it had never occurred to me to wonder about how marine mammals sleep. And then my husband brought home this book for our son. It’s a beautiful look at all the different ways the animals manage to sleep in the ocean, with a little child dreaming of sleeping alongside them.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open for protection, and take turns having awake dolphins swim in circles around the rest. Whale babies sleep in the wake of the mother’s flipper and are carried along in the current. Sea otters wrap themselves in kelp to keep themselves from drifting away in the water, and put their paws on their faces to keep them warm. And the little child sleeps beside them in his kelpy blanket.
What does my baby dream, after reading this book before bed, carefully covered with a blue flannel blanket to keep him from drifting too far away from us?
