The Blanket

by John Burningham

A crisis erupts at bedtime when a small child discovers that his favorite blanket is missing, and mommy and daddy must search the entire house to find it.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

24 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1962

About the author

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bur...

Married to Helen Oxenbury They have one son and two daughters.

John Burningham was born in 1936 in Farnham, Surrey, and attended the alternative school, Summerhill. In 1954 he spent two years travelling through Italy, Yugoslavia and Israel, working at a variety of jobs.

From 1956-1959, he studied at the Central School of Art, after which he designed posters for London Transport and the British Transport Commission. He also spent a year on an animated puppet film in the Middle East. He then became a writer and illustrator of children's books, his first book, Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers (1963) winning the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1963, an achievement he repeated with Mr Gumpy's Outing (1970).

Since then, he has written and illustrated many children's books. He is also a freelance designer of murals, exhibitions models, magazine illustrations and advertisements.

Reviews

[Hilary · Rating 4 out of 5]

A simple story with a line of text accompanying each picture. It is bedtime and a little boy can't find his blanket. Mum and Dad look everywhere and eventually the blanket turns up under his pillow.

Read on open library.

[Jessie Polson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is about a boy who sleeps with his blanket every night. One night, he cannot find his blanket so his mother looks in cupboards, and his father looks in their cars… until the young boy finds his blanket hiding under his pillow! He falls asleep immediately, and remembers to never misplace his blanket again.

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

The hunt is on for the favorite blanket so the young boy can go to sleep. Where oh where can the blanket be found, probable right where someone left it. Brief story and very appropriate for the three and under set.
Copyright 1975 Hardback

[Patricia · Rating 2 out of 5]

A story about a little boy who wants to go to sleep, but can not find his blanket. After a lot of searching done by his parents and himself, the blanket is found. I like that it is a bilingual book in English and Spanish.

Una historia sobre un niño que quiere ir a dormir, pero no puede encontrar su cobija. Después de un montón de búsqueda realizada por sus padres y él mismo, la cobija se encuentra. Me gusta que es un libro bilingüe en Inglés y Español.

[Samantha · Rating 2 out of 5]

Un libro pequeño y lindo, pero yo podría decir: que el niño no es demasiado brillante. Si usted va a dormir con la manta en la cama, no tiene sentido que la manta que en tu cama? Alguien no cree que a través de muy bien. Esto es como una versión menos inteligente de Linus de Peanuts.

[Alexandria K · Rating 1 out of 5]

That kid is silly if he goes to bed with his blanket. Then why did he look under the pillow last. Ese chico es tonto si se va a la cama con la manta. Entonces ¿por qué mirar debajo de la almohada pasado.

[Cws]

BR-Bur

[Gail · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a hit with my two year old although she likes his other little books.