Illustrations created in cut paper and watercolor are the stars here, and readers will probably be compelled to look at them again and again because of the intricacy of some of the images. They illustrations complement 18 nursery rhymes, lullabies and poems. Some of them such as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" will be quite familiar while others such as "Sweetly Sleep" will not be as well known. While the notion of songs to lull someone to sleep threads its way through several of the selections here, I didn't always understand the reason for some of the choices. Perhaps an introduction or an afterword rationalizing the choices would have been helpful, at least for me, and allowed me to enjoy the collection more. In some respects, the verses seem to be just and excuse to show off the illustrations.