When NBC s Meredith Vieira interviewed Tracy Raver on the TODAY Show and broadcast some of the photographs she and her sister Kelley Ryden had taken of newborns, there was an immediate outpouring of enthusiasm and their work received worldwide acclaim via the Internet and other forms of international media.
Now, for the first time in book form, their unique portraits of newborns are presented in Sleeping Beauties: Newborns in Dreamland, a lavish gift book featuring more than 70 unforgettable photographs.

Review
'Shhhhh, we sleeping beauties are trying to get some shut eye! The amazing pictures of snoozing newborns:
With their snowy skin, plump cheeks, teeny fingers and toes, and pouty rosebud lips, these newborn babies really do deserve their Sleeping Beauties nickname.
It was coined by sisters Tracy Raver and Kelley Ryden, who took most of the photographs at their studio in Nebraska - which can be seen in a new book - when the babies were fewer than 10 days old.'
--The Daily Mail, February 18, 2010
About the Author
Sisters Tracy Raver and Kelley Ryden are professional photographers who have helped to launch a new genre of studio photography: newborn baby portraiture. Forgoing elaborate props or artificial contrivances, their minimalist approach allows the emphasis to be on the newborns, resulting in a Zen-like simplicity that offers a glimpse of the grace and innocence that we all possess when we first enter the world. Tracy and Kelley live in Omaha, Nebraska.