Full Product Details
Author: Julie Markes ,
David Parkins
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint: HarperCollins
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 0.90cm
, Length: 30.00cm
Weight: 0.438kg
ISBN: 9780060537906
ISBN 10: 0060537906
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 28 December 2004
Recommended Age: From 4 to 8 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
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Children / Juvenile
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Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
Parkins's cushy.shapes, sly comic details and.palette.make each spread as inviting as a down comforter on a cold winter's night. -- Publishers Weekly
Parkins's cushy...shapes, sly comic details and...palette...make each spread as inviting as a down comforter on a cold winter's night. --Publishers Weekly A first-rate bedtime book. --Child Magazine Author and illustrator make good use of whimsy and fun. --Cleveland Plain Dealer A wonderful new story in the bedtime tradition...will lull any tiny one into a safe and snuggly sleep. --Kirkus Reviews Wryly illustrated scenes...will prompt giggles and flights of fancy about other grown-ups' nighttime habits. --Child Magazine The artwork soars, with amusing, affectionate scenes that...show up beautifully from a distance yet work equally well for bedtime reading. --Booklist (starred review) Well-conceived...wonderfully expansive and enticing...Bright, dynamic paintings...in perfect sync with a child's perspective. --School Library Journal (starred review)
This is a wonderful new story in the bedtime tradition. Now the day is done and everyone (except the reader) has gone to sleep. Each page visits a slumbering person in their perfect occupational background. The librarian is sleeping. Books put away. Her bed is a large book softened by billowy blankets and pillows and her teddy is still wearing his spectacles, which match hers. Even her lamp is a book. The fireman's bed is bright red and complete with a bell, firehose, and a plush spotted dog. The snoozing policeman is still directing the cars that slide over his highway-decorated quilt. There's even a gardener nestled among his flowers with a blanket of grass. The snoozers are smiling serenely as if their dreams are divine. The story concludes with a final sweet message that will lull any tiny one into a safe and snuggly sleep. In taffy-bright pastels, the magnificent illustrations offer imaginative details that cannot fail to amuse and soothe readers. (Picture book. 2-5) (Kirkus Reviews)
The artwork soars, with amusing, affectionate scenes that...show up beautifully from a distance yet work equally well for bedtime reading. --Booklist (starred review)
Author Information
Julie Markes lives with her husband, Eric Schine, and their two sons, Charlie and Nicholas, in Brooklyn, New York. Her books include Thanks For Thanksgiving; I Can't Talk Yet, But When I Do ...; Good Thing You're Not An Octopus!; Sidewalk 123; and Sidewalk.
