| "There is a house, a napping house, where everyone is sleeping..." (from the first line) Now available for the first time in a sturdy board book, "The Napping House" is a classic that is now just right for tiny hands. Full-color illustrations.
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On a gray, rainy day, a snoring grandmother sleeps in a cozy bed. She doesn't awaken, even after she is joined by a dreaming grandchild, a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, and a slumbering mouse. However, on that mouse is a wakeful flea--who bites the mouse, who scares the cat, who claws the dog, who thumps the child, who bumps the granny. This cumulative rhyme demonstrates how something as small as a flea can change a house full of napping creatures, to a house full of wide-awake creatures enjoying the now sunny day. Oil paintings on pressed board accompany the rhyming text.
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Author BioDon Wood is well known for the books he has created in collaboration with his wife, Audrey Wood. Don Wood graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara and then received a master's degree in fine arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts. The couple's first published collaboration, MOONFLUTE, appeared in 1980. Their 1985 work, KING BIDGOOD'S IN THE BATHTUB, was named a Caldecott Honor Book.
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