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The Napping House
by
Audrey Wood (Goodreads Author),
Don Wood
Everyone knows the cumulative rhyme “This Is the House That Jack Built,” but The Napping House (1984) is close on its heels in the race for posterity: “And on that granny / there is a child / a dreaming child / on a snoring granny / on a cozy bed / in a napping house, / where everyone is sleeping.” Included in the napping house menagerie is a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, a...more
Board Book, 16 pages
Published
September 1st 2000
by HMH Books
(first published 1984)
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Cute and humorous! :-) I loved this sort of tale when I was a kid--one thing building upon another. It's so funny!
The cover of this book is what drew me to it at first, the people and animals on the cover look so cozy, who doesn't like a good nap (except maybe the children your reading to). The illustrations in this book are great, they follow along with the text of the story. They are great full page pictures that really draw you into the story, a small child would probably find them fascinating.
The story begins on a rainy day, and it begins with "there is a house, a napping house, where everyone is sleep...more
The story begins on a rainy day, and it begins with "there is a house, a napping house, where everyone is sleep...more
Genre: Fantasy
Review: Amazon.com Review
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 rhythm...more
Review: Amazon.com Review
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 rhythm...more
A simple, but fun book to read. Each line is repeated on the next page, then once the story climaxes, each line is taken away in reverse. For most of the book it is very dark and rainy and as the story progresses towards the end, it gradually get lighter and brighter until it is sunny. It is a ridiculous story about how all people and animals in a house all pile on top of one another and sleep, until a flea disturbs everyone one by one until everyone is all awake. The illustrations are also very...more
The Napping House should be listed under many categories other than pattern books because of its exceptional presentation. Audrey and Don Wood’s story begins on the cover and each page pushes towards the conclusion. In The Napping House there is a cozy bed, a snoring granny, a dreaming child, a dozing child, a snoozing cat, a slumbering mouse, and a wakeful flea, all napping one on top of the other until the flea bites the mouse. This bite results in each animal, granny, and child waking up and...more
We chew through children's books out our house. A lot of books. We love them to death, which is fine by me. A worn-out dog-eared barely-holding-together board book means lots and lots of time being abused and dragged about the house by adoring toddlers. And, the adoration stems from generous dollops of time spent by grandmas and grandpas and mommies and daddies reading with little ones snugged in the crook of their arm, with their heads leaned against their shoulder.
As I said, we go through a lo...more
As I said, we go through a lo...more
This book was a fairly well done book for primary level readers. The plot was very repetitive and even the youngest reader could easily make predictions on what would happen next or help read some of the words along with you. The text is interesting as it matches the events in the story perfectly. The first page has 3 lines, the next 5 lines, and so on until they build up to 12 lines at the climax of the story all stacked on top of one another just like the granny and all the animals. At this po...more
"The Napping House" is a beautifully illustrated, rhythmic, story of a grandmother, a child, a dog, a cat, a mouse, and a flee. All are asleep in the napping house except the wakeful flee. The beautifully rhythmic wording created by Audrey Wood goes beautifully with Don Wood's illustrations. The vocabulary in this book is great to introduce into a classroom, it has a sense of simplicity as well as great descriptive words. The illustrations follow the story amazingly, starting out with a dark ra...more
Overall I thought this was a good book. The pictures were interesting to look at because the color scheme stayed the same throughout the entire story, but the part that I liked the most was the repetition. I thought that it was very helpful for an early education or elementary education teacher because it teaches children not only repetition, but memorization at the same time.
Because of that, I thought this would be a good book that would help memorization in the classroom. Maybe the class coul...more
Because of that, I thought this would be a good book that would help memorization in the classroom. Maybe the class coul...more
I was not able to find the book in the library, but I did find a video reading of the book. Even though I could not hold the book in front of me, I could still analyze the book pretty well. I noticed that the book was illustrated in shades of blue, and blue toned colors. It conveyed the night, bed time atmosphere to the reader before I even began hearing the words. The vocabulary was pretty basic, so I immediately knew this was appropriate for a younger, primary aged reader. I also noticed that...more
Summary: The book The Napping House starts on a rainy night with a house, which has a cozy bed in it where a granny is sleeping. Since the bed is a cozy bed, everyone wants to sleep in it. Throughout the beginning of the book, one by one a child, dog, cat, and a mouse all pile on top of the granny while sleeping. They are all cozy in the bed until a flea climbs on top of the mouse. Instead of the flea being sleepy like everyone else the flea is wide-awake and bites the mouse that wakes up, causi...more
The Napping House opens with a simple house on a rainy night, “where everyone is sleeping.” We next see a cozy bed within this house, containing a sleeping granny. The story is a cumulative rhyming tale, and with each turn of the page, another character joins granny in the bed, and a new line is added to the rhyme.
Children will find the element of predictability enjoyable, although the pattern is broken when a wakeful – rather than a sleeping – flea places himself atop the sleeping occupants of...more
Children will find the element of predictability enjoyable, although the pattern is broken when a wakeful – rather than a sleeping – flea places himself atop the sleeping occupants of...more
There were many interesting aspects about the book. For starters, as I read through the book, the first thing that I noticed was the colors schema. At the beginning of the storyline, all the characters are sleeping and the illustrations are done in relaxing shades of blue, purple, and greens. Whereas, towards the end of the story when the characters begin to wake up, the colors start to become brighter using tones of pinks and yellows. The second interesting aspect of the picturebook was the cha...more
As per usual, children's literature has much deeper meaning throughout its context than what meets the eye. My personal interpretation of "The Napping House" one of the strongest messages of this book is one that describes the idea of sharing human experiences. Through elaborating on how each character climbs into the bed with granny on a rainy afternoon to sleep; the author is trying to convey what must be an important message. From what I gathered of its meaning, is that it is often hard to sl...more
Oct 26, 2011
Katelynn Callahan
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This story is about a grandma who is snoring in her bed on a rainy day. As she sleeps other things join her in bed. A boy, a dog, a cat, a mouse and they are all sleeping happily until a flea bites the mouse. When everyone wakes up the day is sunny and perfect for play. I think that it was a good story. The pictures were very interesting and the colors captured your attention throughout the story. I think the repetition made the story.
I think it would be a good book for a classroom because it i...more
I think it would be a good book for a classroom because it i...more
This is a great picture book which I would recommend for cosy bedtime reading with the younger children. ‘The napping house’ is a lovely tale about a very sleepy house with a very cosy bed. Granny decides to take a short nap on the bed where she starts to snore. In no time, she is joined by a dreaming child, dozing dog, snoozing cat, slumbering mouse and finally a wakeful flea. However, the wakeful flea decided to disrupt their wonderful sleep by biting the mouse, which causes a different series...more
“The Napping House” was one of my favorite childhood books to have read to me before bed. Looking at it now it is still a great book. The illustrations enhance the words of the story. The colors used are perfect for the sleepy atmosphere the story creates. The pictures are also very detailed. It is easy to see all the textures of the different subjects, such as the shagginess of the dog and the soft coziness of the blankets. I suppose this is why the pictures are full bleed while the text is ave...more
This story was good. It had many different animals and characters involved. One good activity to do with students to help with their counting would be to count how many animals are actually sleeping. This would help them pay more attention to the story and well as work on their counting skills. That activity would of course be done with a younger age of kids probably kindergarten-2nd grade would still be age appropriate.
Also within the story, the author used many synonyms to describe the word sl...more
Also within the story, the author used many synonyms to describe the word sl...more
"The Napping House" is a cute story about a boy, his granny, and their pets sleeping and being woken up by a disturbing flea. The story line is peaceful as everyone is asleep, and silly as the illustrations depict everyone piled onto the same bed. There is a mouse on top of the cat, which is on top of the dog, which is on top of the boy, who is on top of his grandmother. A flea bites the cat, waking him up and causing a domino effect awakening all of the others.
This story is aimed for young read...more
This story is aimed for young read...more
I enjoyed this simple picture book for many reasons. First, I believe the repeated phrases are helpful for readers that are considered "beginners". The author used an action sequence throughout the story and on every page he added on to the sequence. The writing style kept my attention and I think it would be an excellent book to read out loud. The full bleed illustrations stretched over the double page spread.The typography was simple and the text included soothing adjectives. The illustrator u...more
I love this book! It was one of my favorites growing up. It is very simplistic, but entertaining. As the child is reading the book they will most likely predict what will happen next. I think the illustrations match perfectly with the text. The beginning of the book has dark colors because everyone is napping, then the illustrations become lighter representing them waking up from the nap. It is also very repetitive so the child will be able to understand better and like I said earlier, predict w...more
This is a great children’s book. It is short and simple, and I think is written in a way that would get a child’s full and complete attention. On top of that I believe that it could even be funny to some kids. This book is written in a poetry style, meaning that the words rhyme with each other.
In this home there is a granny sleeping in a bed. A child then goes on top of the granny. Who then has a dog go on top of him. A cat then decides to go sleep on top of the dog who is on top of the child...more
In this home there is a granny sleeping in a bed. A child then goes on top of the granny. Who then has a dog go on top of him. A cat then decides to go sleep on top of the dog who is on top of the child...more
This book by Audrey Wood is a good pattern book for children. Surprisingly the book is funny also! The book is a bout a house (napping house) and everyone is sleep. The book details that everyone is sleeping on top of everyone such as a flea,mouse,cat,dog, boy, granny, all on a bed. When the chain reaction happens everyone wakes up. This book is great for younger elementary students, and it will help with repetition in children. This book can cause for great student involvement within the classr...more
The Napping House was a cute story! It was short and the perfect length for Primary level readers. It gives the reader a chance to be able to make predictions based on the clues of the events of the story. The illustrations are bright and detailed and also give hints as to what will happen on the next page. This keeps the young reader engaged. Since it follows a pattern, young children will have an easy time being able to pick up on that and follow along. It would be a great teaching tool becaus...more
I think that this would be a good book for young students (early elementary school?). It is good at highlighting cause and effect, as well as parallel structure. (we get the same thing repeated with growth) I also like how at the end, everything went wrong, to change the sequence, and cause a difference in structure.
Something interesting, the pages in the front of the book, and the pages in the back of the book are different shades of blue. The beginning pages are dark blue/grey, while the end p...more
Something interesting, the pages in the front of the book, and the pages in the back of the book are different shades of blue. The beginning pages are dark blue/grey, while the end p...more
The napping house would be a good story for little kids because it gets humorous. But for me it was okay because I didn't really like reading the same lines continuously,I believe it got kind of boring afterwards. An activity teachers could do after reading this book to their kids is to make them look for words or pictures in the book and find as many synonyms as they can. For example the story uses the word scares, and children could think of more words to use like terrifies, or frightens. I th...more
May 05, 2011
Heather
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
all children
Shelves:
children-s-literature
On Tuesday, it rained steady ALL DAY LONG. This is the last thing you want right after a tornado hit your property! All we could do was hold up in the living room (our only room powered by the generator). We tried to watch videos, but most of us kept falling asleep. (I blame the Zyrtec I bought in desperation to combat my allergies--instead of 15 min. to an hour of being super tired, I was tired for 7-8 hours!) It was then that I realized we were in a real life Napping House. I mentioned this fa...more
The Napping House by Audrey Wood was a really cute book. It is a book that is appropriate for very young children such as students in Kindergarden. I think kids would find the pattern of the story to be fun and entertaining. It is a good book to show how the sequence of events works and how something small can affect something large. For example how in this story the flee bites the mouse, who then scares the cat, who claws the dog, who thumped the child and then the granny, who breaks the bed. T...more
This story has a lot of structure to it. The whole beginning, the characters are literally "building" on each other. There is a definite climax that disturbs the whole pile. This disturbance alters the whole basis of this book, and flips everything the book had built thus far. This would be a good book for a very young child, because it can teach them what order objects go in, and it could help them work on their memorization of events. I would keep this book in my classroom library for that rea...more
This book is a great bedtime book. It begins with a granny, child, dog, cat, mouse, and a flea all sleeping peacefully in a room together. As the night progresses the child, dog, cat, mouse and flea pile up one by one on top of granny. Each one is described with a synonym for sleeping, a snoring granny, dreaming child, dozing dog, snoozing cat, and a slumbering mouse. However, the flea is a wakeful flea. He is the last one to join the pile and he arrives just as the night ends and day begins. Th...more
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Audrey Wood studied art and drama at the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has owned an operated a book and import store, taught chldren's drama and art, and traveled throughout Mexico and Guatemala studying Indian folk art. She now lives in Hawaii with her talented family (husband Don and son Bruce, who have both collaborated with Audrey by illustrating some of her books).
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