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The Napping House
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ASIN: 0152026320 |
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There is a house,
a napping house,
where everyone is sleeping.
"Everyone," in this case is a snoring granny, a dreaming child, a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, a slumbering mouse... and a wakeful flea! Uh-oh. Looks like the napping house won't be napping for long. With their very own brand of humor, Audrey Wood and Don Wood create an appealing bedtime book compatible with Margaret Wise Brown's classic Goodnight Moon. This small, square board book, with its rhythmic, repetitive text and witty pictures in shades of ever-brightening blues and greens (as the night turns to day), is sure to be a winner with preschool insomniacs. The sleepy household congregates on Granny's bed, slowly building a very relaxed pile of bodies in shifting positions. Young readers will enjoy tracking the critters as they make their way, one by one, to the bed--and then guessing what will happen when the wakeful flea joins the heap. Be sure to look for this author-illustrator team's other hilarious collaborative efforts, including Piggies and Silly Sally. (Baby to preschool) --Emilie Coulter
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This beloved and bestselling book from Audrey and Don Wood has been delighting
children--and sending them off to bed with laughter and sweet dreams-for years. The infectious cumulative rhyme of The Napping House has made this book a classic. Now here is the new sturdy edition just right for tiny hands, making them a must for every family's board book collection.
Customer Reviews:
cute story line.......2007-09-09
It has a cute, predictable story line. The illustration is top notch, with incredible attention to detail about time of day. My infant likes it, but it's not one of her favorites.
Repetition, repetition, repetition!.......2007-09-04
I was a preschool teacher, and used this book a lot in my class because the children loved the repetition, and it was great for large group time! I recently ordered this book for my 1 year old son, and find it to be too long for him, and does not keep his attention like other board books, so we put it away until he gets a bit older. Happy Reading!
My children's favorite book , , ,.......2007-09-02
I am a firm believer in reading to children and this was one of their favorite and a wonderful lead into "naptime"
Kids love this book.......2007-08-25
We just adore this book. Well, we pretty much love anything by Audrey and Don Wood. The story is so sweet. And as a co-sleeping family it is nice to see everyone end up in grandma's bed. Plus the detail in the pictures is so stunning. Watching how the weather changes out the window, the flea moving around the room, all the characters expressions... just great.
Heather mama of 5
Our family loves this book!.......2007-08-19
We received this book as a present from someone who didn't even know about the CD inside; her own kids had loved the book when they were small. And my little ones (who are 4-1/2) loved it too! Then, we put the CD on in the car when we happened to have the book with us--I had to leave the kids in the car with a friend while I grocery shopped--and they were totally charmed. I was too, once I got a chance to listen to it. A delightful reading of the book, plus 6 songs which each give a different rendering of the book. I can't say enough how appealing this all is. The Napping House will definitely go to the top of my list of presents to give people with babies or small children.
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The House of Sleep is an intricate cat's cradle of a novel, full of both sly satire and oblique meditations on the interstices of love, sleep, memory, and dreams. The setting is Ashdown, a wind-swept old house by the sea that once provided university housing and now is home to a clinic for sleep disorders. During the early 1980s, a group of students meet here, united by little other than a curious preoccupation with sleep. They include Sarah, a narcoleptic who has trouble distinguishing her intensely vivid dreams from reality; her first boyfriend, the fussy egomaniac Gregory, who gets his kicks from pressing his fingers on Sarah's closed eyes; Terry, a film buff who sleeps at least 14 hours a day, dreaming blissful dreams he can never quite remember; and the sensitive Robert, who loves Sarah enough to do anything at all in order to have her. By a series of startling coincidences, the four are drawn back to Ashdown 12 years later, setting into motion a plot so carefully contrived it makes most thrillers look spare and impressionistic. Like a dream, The House of Sleep resonates with repeated images, phrases, even passages; here they serve as narrative glue for a complicated story that moves backward and forward in time and in and out of different points of view. The result is sometimes puzzling, always absorbing, and often very funny indeed.
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Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award in England and the Prix Médicis in France
Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has his life changed forever by the misunderstandings that arise from her condition. Terry spends his wakeful nights fueling his obsession with movies. And an increasingly unstable doctor, Gregory, sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which he must eradicate.
But after ten years of fretful slumber and dreams gone bad, the four reunite in their college town to confront their disorders. In a Gothic cliffside manor being used as a clinic for sleep disorders, they discover that neither love, nor lunacy, nor obsession ever rests.
Customer Reviews:
The House of the Humdrum.......2007-02-21
This book is a perfect example of how, by turns, irritating and dispiriting a novel can be that starts with a great premise but fails utterly in the execution. The writer for The Boston Book Review says on the inside cover that it is "reminiscent of Proust". The PREMISE: How dreams mingle with waking life, and how eroticism crosses gender lines could be accounted Proustian. But the novel itself reads like a screenplay, not a poetic reverie. The fact that this was, when published, A New York Times Notable Book of the Year once again sadly confirms Harold Bloom's verdict that The New York Times has become the most unliterary paper in print.
I'll make this a short review because, really, there's hardly anything to review. All the characters are pasteboard. The plot devices and coincidences are gimcrack. The writing is showy and meretricious. The only reason I'm giving it two stars is for the few moments of laugh out loud comic snippets, the best example of which is Terry's review with the mismatched footnotes. But even this comes across, in the end, as overly contrived.
What else to say? ---It might make a half-decent comic-Gothic movie, given the right director.
An addictive read.......2007-01-10
This book is a thoroughly engrossing page-turner that will have you on the edge of your seat like the best thriller. Unconventional, unpredictable and utterly absorbing. Highly recommended to readers who, like me, have short attention spans!
FunnyweirdcreepyAndYicky.......2004-09-30
I've read a couple of this British author's books and I think I have a handle on his mode of operation. Coe writes witty well-crafted books full of odd characters in what's basically a fable told in the form of a mystery wrapped in black humor. And although that pattern was well established in the first book of his I read ("The Winshaw Legacy"), it really smacked me upside the head in this book.
"The House of Sleep" is essentially a love story told in form of a mystery with the denouement slowly revealed in often humorous and occasionally creepy scenes. There's some political wisecracks and what I think are multiple insults directed against the field of quacks. Oh, and an absolutely hilarious sentence toward the top of page 259. I put it to you, this is a fine fine book. HHD.
Witty, clever and original.......2004-08-24
It is not an easy task describing Mr Coe's novel in a few lines. This is not only due to the twisty nature of the plot - intermittently describing events nearly 10 years distant in time - but also to the great number of characters often involved in confusing situations resulting from witty misunderstandings. This is not in the least to say that the novel is confusing, on the contrary, the non-linear plot is an essential part of the originality of "The House of Sleep".
In the 1980s a group of students were studying at the imposing college of Ashdown on the English South Coast before drifting apart. A decade later, Ashdown has become the Dudden Clinic where the increasingly unstable Dr Dudden investigates the mechanisms of sleep, using both animals and human beings for his various experiments. Due to a series of coincidences involving various disorders in their sleep patterns, these students are drawn back together. Sarah is narcoleptic, she has dreams so vivid that she can't distinguish them from real events, Robert whose identity is about to change completely due to misunderstandings that come from his/her condition and Terry, the insomniac film critic who spends his nights with his obsessions with movies. And finally Dr Dudden who considers sleep as a disease shortening people's lives by a third.
A compelling novel about love, loss and obsession.
not the best by Coe.......2003-12-10
This book is obviously pleasant to read and even captivating. However the slightly cheesy romantic undertone and some very obvious, easy-to-guess, twists of the plot are truly disappointing; the witty political criticism that enlights 'what a carve up' or 'the rotter's club' is diluted here, reduced to the caricatural Dr Dudden, a too-gross-to-be-true maniac character. Also here the subtle intertwining of histories and timeframe so typical of Coe's style appear heavy and systematic. If you're new to Coe, I'd recommand his more ambitious first novel.
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- Wonderful illustrations and a cozy story.
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Into the Napping House: Book and Musical Cassette
Audrey Wood
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Through the use of dialogue, sound effects, and six all-new songs, children’s musicians Carl and Jennifer Shaylen bring to life Audrey and Don Wood’s award-winning book The Napping House.
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Wonderful illustrations and a cozy story........1999-07-16
This is one of my daughter's (and her preschool's) favorites. The illustrations are rich, seemingly 3-dimensional, and are very amusingly drawn.
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Countdown returns with a knock-out suspense thriller that pits a mother and son against a killer who's the stuff of nightmares.
If you close your eyes, he’ll get you. Sophie Dunston knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the nation’s top sleep therapists, she specializes in the life-threatening night terrors that her ten-year-old son, Michael, suffers from. But she is also an expert in another kind of terror–the kind that can turn a dream life into a living nightmare in the blink of an eye.
Someone is watching. He’s a shadowy figure from out of her darkest fears and he hasn’t forgotten her. In one shocking moment of violence, he’d shattered Sophie’s world forever and left her with only one thing to live for: her son. But the nightmare isn’t over for Sophie Dunston. It’s just begun. He’s been waiting. Sophie was supposed to die the first time around, but fate intervened. This time he’ll make sure that not even a miracle will save her.
It wasn’t a miracle that saved Jock Gavin, but it was pretty close. A semiretired hit man, commando, and jack-of-all-deadly-trades, he knows what Sophie is up against–and that she’ll need help. But the man he’s chosen for the job is as unpredictable as he is dangerous. Matt Royd is a wild card–hard, cool, merciless–and putting him into play changes the game completely. But to whose advantage?
Sophie will soon find out. She will have to trust Royd because she has no choices left. Because the bogeyman haunting her dreams is all too real and he’s on the hunt again. Because the nightmare he’s got planned for Sophie won’t end when she wakes up screaming. It won’t end. Ever.
Customer Reviews:
So Disappointing.......2007-10-02
A friend told me that Ms. Johansen is "an AWESOME writer," so when I saw the blurb on the back, I decided to check it out.
The only thing this book had going for it was that it is SO bad, it has inspired me to start writing down on paper the stuff that has been in my own head for several years. I just CAN'T be as bad as this...no matter how hard I am on myself.
This is the first book that I have EVER forced myself to finish reading. Never again.
Awful Book--Could not finish it! .......2007-09-25
This is the first Iris Johansen book I have ever read and I will never read another one. The lady cannot write. Characters are so bad you will find yourself not caring what happens to them and ultimately throw the book away. Somehow she has a deal where her books are in all the major airports so she is destined to get a high volume of sales but sooner rather than later people will see through this mindless babble she is offering and quit reading her books.
2 1/2 Stars.......2007-09-23
Two years ago, Dr. Sophie Dunston's life was shattered. Today, she's a sleep therapist at a hospital in Baltimore. And...she wants to kill Sanborne, the control freak founder of the pharmaceutical company where she used to work. He has sinister uses for the REM-4 that she had developed as a cure for people with night terrors. When Sanborne sees her on a security tape, he decides she must go. Enter Jock, Royd, MacDuff and the whole gang to protect her and her son and to put a permanent end to Sanborne and his partner.
As other reviewers have noted, this is kind of the same old story with new names and a few characters and locations from previous stories.
Not Her Best.......2007-09-09
Being and avid Johansen fan, and loving all the Eve Duncan series, I bought the book at a glance, but in reading it I was disappointed in the plot, it was a bit lack luster, and drawn out. A love story within, and very similar to some of her other break out novels.
Killer Dreams.......2007-06-12
A good read/listen. But, people - men or women who just want to do it their own way, with out the benefit of experience to drive them, just drive me crazy. Jane might have learned more had she taken the time to listen for a change.
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This is an innovative series which shows yow how to create and embellish your home with everyday materials. Each title includes 25 projects with step-by-step photographs that clearly explain the stylish ideas, providing creative inspiration for truly original effects.
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The Napping House Wakes Up/Pop Up
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The Woods get 4 stars.......2000-07-26
"The Napping House Wakes Up" is sure to please any fan of Don and Audrey Wood's goofy children's books. The tale is simple, an offbeat version of the classic "House That Jack Built" theme of a growing catastrophe, and ends with a waking bang. The pop-up mechanics are silly enought to bring a smile to any child or collector.
The Woods get 4 stars!.......2000-07-26
"The Napping House Wakes Up" is sure to please any fan of Don and Audrey Wood's goofy children's books. The tale is simple, an offbeat version of the classic "House That Jack Built" theme of a growing catastrophe, and ends with a waking bang. The pop-up mechanics are silly enought to bring a smile to any child or collector.
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Baby's Goodnight Book: Bedtime Stories & Lullaby (Lap Library)
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Random House Lap Library combines classic nursery collections with sturdy board pages. Each book is a treasure trove tough enough to withstand a whole childhood of reading! This sturdy sleepy-time Lap Library book includes favorite lullabies, classic nighttime poems, and beautifully illustrated bedtime stories guaranteed to give babies sweet dreams.
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- Nora loves it...!
- Elmo says, Don't wake the Baby!
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Elmo Says, "Don't Wake the Baby" (Pictureback(R))
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Release Date: 1999-07-20 |
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Nora loves it...!.......2002-06-01
Nora won't let me read the Elmo book though. She literally won't put it down. She is holding it in one hand right now while she plays with her F. P. farm with the other. Great choice!
Elmo says, Don't wake the Baby!.......2000-04-09
A cute look at Elmo doing everything possible to keep a monster left in his care from waking up. Very typically Elmo--my kids love it.
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1906. Found in this volume are a variety of poetical verses and prose under the following heads: Shadows of Sacraments; Hidden Sacrament of the Holy Graal; Poor Brother's Mass Book; Book of the King's Dole and Chantry for Plain Song, A Greater Initiation. The original edition of this book was limited to 250 copies, our copy being No. 60, inscribed by the author.
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Best Michelle book.......2004-06-18
This was a really, really, really good book. It was great because my favorite sport is soccer just like Michelle. It was the best Michelle book I have ready - and I have read 7 of them. I am in the first grade.
Funny!.......2001-01-26
This starts with a real life situation that faced my daughter... Michelle is the best player on her soccer team. As a result she is picked for the All-Star team. At her first All-Star practice, she realizes that she is the worst player on the All-Star team! Michelle decides to change that by working on her soccer skills after school... but when will she do her homework?... in the middle of the night while everyone else is asleep! Funny and a good story. However it gets a little awkward because the all the characters from the Full-House series appear in the book even if there is no reason for them to be there. It got a little confusing for my daughter because she does not know the characters from the Full-House series and they kept popping up through out the book.
No Sleeping Allowed.......2000-02-22
Hooray! Michelle just got picked to be on the all-star soccer team. That means practice, practice and mroe practice. It takes a ton of work to be a soccer star. But Michelle's dad says she has to quit the team if her grades start to slip. And she doesn't have time to practice her soccer and do her homework. Then Michelle gets a super idea. If she skips sleeping, she'll have plenty of time for soccer and schoolwork. It's a perfect plan, well almost...
It's easy to stay awake with this book!.......1999-08-09
Very nice book! It really reminds you of the fun of the good ol' sitcom Full House, which ended much to soon on TV. Michelle Tanner is selected for an all-stars soccerteam, but she must get her school grades up. To do so, she sneaks out of bed each night to do her homework in the middle of the night. At first this goes very well, but the more often she sneaks out, the more tired she becomes, the more fun the book is!
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