“The Napping House” was extremely popular back in the 80s for its numerous awards that it won which includes: the 1984 New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book, the 1984 Golden Kite Award from Society of Children’s Book Writers and the 1984 American Library Association Notable Book for Children.Īudrey Wood’s lyrical writing is at its best as she narrates how all the family members are sleeping in the house only to be awakened by a wakeful flea. “The Napping House” is one of Audrey Wood’s and Don Wood’s earlier children’s books and is probably one of their most peaceful books ever written. You know, it's a pretty good life after all. I stop to ask my three teenagers, playing Monopoly as I write this during the deepening Coronavirus crisis, and ask them, "You remember The Napping House?!" and they cry out "Yes, I remember when the cat jumps on and screeches!" "Everything is all peaceful and a cat goes to sleep on a dog and then a mouse." "The gnat bites the mouse that wakes the cat that wakes the dog and so suddenly no one is napping!" No napping, henceforth, but certain smiles ensue.
Urn:oclc:875247047 Republisher_date 20120511233259 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120505024358 Scanner, since for some reason several people are being nice enough to like my non-review, I'll just say there are probably several core books in any house that are read in the "formative" years when you are trying to figure out how to make the little urchins happy and/or get them to sleep, books you wear out, ripped and torn and ragged, spattered with baby food and milk and vomit, books that are indistinguishable from your parenting years and this is one of mine, one I look back with a kind of sweet longing, in spite of the fact there might at the time been partly desperation: "will he for the love of god not sleep?" But this is funny, silly, one of those where each occupant of a house piles on to the sleeping Gramma until the bed breaks (see James Thurber's "The Night the Bed Fell,") and all Holy Heck (children are involved here, now) breaks loose. Urn:lcp:nappinghouse00wood_0:epub:ee3ec7de-cd90-400a-a20c-5fa670d20748 Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier nappinghouse00wood_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3cz4bn39 Isbn 9780152056209Ģ005272179 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL22994485M Openlibrary_edition DonorĪlibris Edition 1st Red Wagon Books ed. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:41:25 Boxid IA178601 Boxid_2 BWB220141002 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Livonia, Mich.
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