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A little girl discovers the best place of all for a nap

"Snuzzled and fuzzled
and kissed on the nose,
or cozied in hay
or the tip of a rose . . ."

Baby animals take their naps in the most interesting places. Piglets snooze in haystacks. Ladybugs doze on rosebuds. But what's the best place for a tired little girl and her puppy to nap? Just like the other babies, they find the perfect sleepy spot.
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It's late night in the city. From his father's shoulder, a sleepless baby watches the snow drift down from the sky onto the busy street below. What are all those noises? What are all those lights? His tired but patient father explains everything, from the bustle of taxis swishing through the slush to the grinding and slamming of the early-morning garbage trucks. Teddy Jam's lyrical prose and Eric Beddows's detailed illustrations cast Night Cars in that magical light between sleep and waking. A warm and witty tale for a cold winter's night. ... Read more

Reviews (3)

Our son loved this book.
I don't know where this crummy horn reviewer is coming from, but our son loved this book and heard it read to him (willingly! eagerly!) about a zillion times. It is just a sweet little gem of a bedtime book, and the illustrations are wonderful - very evocative of urban/residential streetlife and what you see from your two-flat window. Highly recommended (and muchly missed - our son's doing his own "bedtime reading" now....).

Don't believe Horn Books
This book is a WONDERFUL bedtime book. One of the best around. The reviewer from Horn Books (who said that the book has badly rhymed verse) clearly has no appreciation for any but the most trivial and obvious rhymes (e.g. night and light). It's all in how you read it. In a British/Canadian vernacular (the author is from Canada), "green" and "again" nearly rhyme in "engines roar, light turns green, night cars on their way again". The text of this book is hypnotic and delightful (AND our child loves to hear it again and again).

Also, the illustrations are far from unexceptional. The artist Eric Beddows has a wonderful sense of detail and weaves visual themes throughout the book.

It's as good or better than "Train Song" by Diane Siebert and Mike Wimmer (Illustrator).

My kids all love it, a fantastic bedtime story!
Horn Book is under the gross misimpression that poetry which doesnot rhyme is necessarily bad. Night Cars is an endearing story, with a wonderfully sonorous meter. The illustrations hold a toddler's attention. It's a perfect bedtime story for bad sleepers and their parents. ... Read more

Book Description

Bobby is a playful little bear. But unfortunately it is getting late and it's time for all good bears to take their winter nap. Bobby doesn't want to take a nap! But Bobby obeys his mother, and comes inside and goes to bed. Or does he?

Time after time Bobby finds a new reason to come out of his room. Like so many children before him, Bobby is a master of prolonging the bedtime experience. Exhausting his mom, his dad coming to the rescue, Bobby the bear will make you laugh and leave you smiling smiling as you remember and reminisce about the little Bobbys and Bobettes in your life. ... Read more

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A high quality and wonderfully illustrated children's book!
"I Don't Wanter to Take a Nap!" is a high quality and wonderfully illustrated story about a cute and cuddly little bear named Bobby. I read this story to my 2 nieces, 3 & 5, and they loved it! In fact, the story isn't far different than what takes place in their own home on some nights. Now when I visit my nieces, they sometimes beg me to read "I Don't Want to Take a Nap!" just before their bedtime. Of course, I always enjoy reading it to them.

Not as good as I thought!
This book just wasn't what I expected. The illustrations are a distraction and they don't match the text in some places. I wasn't pleased with the fact that the mother couldn't put Bobby to bed herself and had to call the father. Bobby gives his father no trouble whatsoever and falls asleep. It was a weak ending for an otherwise nice story line, we all suffer with children who don't want to nap.

I Don't Want To Take A Nap
A wonderful book to read for all ages!

Hooray for Dads
Excellent graphics & delightful story. It's about time someone writes about the value of fathers!!!

I Don't Want to Take a Nap!
My students loved the adorable character, Bobby the Bear! They found humor in his efforts to delay his nap and took delight in the beautifully bold colored illustrations. A fun read! ... Read more

Amazon.com

No one in the world can resist a great big yawn, especially when itcomes from the sleepy moon herself. From the first yawn of the night, beginning"with a baby's tiny mouth wrapped around it," and moving on to the baby'smother, the family dog, children in countries far away, and even the moon,nighttime overcomes the planet, village by city, hemisphere by hemisphere.

Josephine Nobisso and Glo Coalson's delightful lullaby of a picture book willinduce more contented yawns per page than any bedtime book on the shelf. As theearth rotates, each page's "yaw-awn" is connected to the next page, so that theseals a tired boy on a ship thinks he sees on one spread appear on the next pageas well, surfacing through a hole in the ice near a hunting Eskimo family.Coalson's gentle blue-tinted watercolor and pastel illustrations soothe aseffectively and expressively as the text. (Ages 3 to 6) --Emilie Coulter ... Read more

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Welcome to the world of the funny friends.Kids will love these entertaining lift-and-learn flap books about opposites!Suzie wants to go to bed.She turns the light OFF, but realizes she forgot her bunny so she turns the light back ON.She looks for her bunny all OVER the blanket but finds him UNDER the blanket.Then her friend Emma knocks on the door.Suzie wants to be ASLEEP, but now she's wide AWAKE.What will she do? ... Read more