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GOOD NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT
Author:
Fox, Mem
Illustrator:
Horacek, Judy
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Class:
Easy
Age: 3-6
Language: English
Descriptors: Picture Book
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LC: PZ8
Grade: P-1
Print Run: 60000
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ISBN-13: 9780545533706
LCCN: 2012032174
Imprint: Orchard Books
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Pub Date: 07/30/2013
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $16.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
H 8.88",
W 8.5"
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's Fresh Reads for Kids TIPS Selections
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Children's Core Collection, 22nd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 23rd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 24th ed.
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Awards:
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Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices
Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
Kirkus Best Books
Kirkus Starred Reviews
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Starred Reviews:
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Kirkus Reviews
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TIPS Subjects:
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Nursery Rhymes
Bedtime Stories/Poems/Music
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE FICTION / Bedtime & Dreams
JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings
JUVENILE FICTION / Nursery Rhymes
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LC Subjects:
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Babysitters and babysitting, Fiction
Babysitters, Fiction
Babysitters, Juvenile fiction
Bedtime, Fiction
Bedtime, Juvenile fiction
Nursery rhymes
Stories in rhyme
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SEARS Subjects: |
Babysitters, Fiction
Bedtime, Fiction
Nursery rhymes
Stories in rhyme
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
2.3
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Points: 0.5
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| Annotations |
| Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 08/01/2013 |
| With nursery rhymes like these, there's no time to sleep. Bonnie and Ben would much rather listen to more bedtime stories than go to sleep. They can't get enough of their favorite babysitter's old nursery rhymes. When the babysitter tells the pair some new nursery rhymes, all three drift off to sleep. 32pp., Color Ill. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 06/01/2013 |
| Bedtime diversions and traditional rhymes are a winning combination here. When Bonnie and Ben's favorite baby sitter, Skinny Doug, offers a bedtime salute of "Good night, sleep tight. / Hope the fleas don't bite!" he embarks on a command performance of seven traditional rhymes. The not-very-sleepy duo keeps him going, as he recites from his personal repertoire: " 'We love it! we love it!' said Bonnie and Ben./ 'How does it go? Will you say it again?' " This catchy refrain follows each of the resourceful baby sitter's rhymes. To their entreaties to repeat each one, Skinny Doug replies, "I'll tell you another / I learned from my mother." After "Good night, sleep tight," Skinny Doug offers "It's raining, it's pouring," "This little piggie," "Pat-a-cake," "Round and round the garden," "This is the way the ladies ride," and "Star light, star bright." The engaging, economical framing text is memorable and sweetly appealing, sure to encourage little listeners to participate. The finite number of rhymes introduced before the baby sitter hustles Bonnie and Ben off to sleep is just right: It's enough for one sitting, where larger collections bring the inevitable negotiation about where to stop. Horacek's simple, solid lines and primary colors are friendly, cheery and almost exuberantly inviting. Sure to be requested and welcome for lapsits and reciting together any time of day. (Picture book. 1-5). 32pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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| Booklist | 08/01/2013 |
| Preschool-Grade 1. Ben and Bonnie's babysitter, Skinny Doug, has a cool way to put his charges to sleep--with familiar rhymes. Familiar to him, that is. "Good night, sleep tight. / Hope the fleas don't bite!" is one. "This Little Piggy" and "Pat-a-cake" are others. But they are new to the children, who say the same thing after each recitation: "'We love it! We love it!' said Bonnie and Ben. 'How does it go? Will you say it again?'" Skinny Doug does not repeat, though. Instead he says, "I'll tell you another. / I heard from my mother." (This interplay does get the tiniest bit tired by the book's end.) While a couple of the ditties will be new to American audiences (like "Round and round the garden / Like a teddy bear"), most will have children chanting along. The Quentin Blake-style pictures alternate between simple, warm scenes of Doug and his charges and the amusing ink-and-watercolor pictures that illustrate the rhymes, sometimes quite intricately. A fun book that will remind parents to pass along the golden oldies. Cooper, Ilene. 32p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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| Horn Book | 07/01/2013 |
| Preschool. No wonder Skinny Doug is Bonnie and Ben's favorite sitter -- he's a fount of traditional rhymes that elicit cries of "Will you say it again?" Instead, each time, the lanky teenager promises, "Some other time," and comes up with a new one ("I'll tell you another / I heard from my mother"). Meanwhile, in Horacek's crisply outlined illustrations, the kids hop out of bed and take part in succinctly rendered visualizations of the rhymes (it's Doug who knocks on the door of the old man who "couldn't get up in the morning" and drives his charges to "this little Piggy's" market). Soon Bonnie and Ben are on the floor amid toys that also recall the rhymes, and climbing on Doug ("This is the way / the ladies ride") until he picks them up ("Star light, star bright...") and tucks them contentedly into bed: "It's time for sleep now, okay? So...Good night, sleep tight!" And the peerless sitter sleeps, too, drowsing, over his book, in an armchair. It's a clever way to introduce six old favorite rhymes -- and to model how to have a satisfying romp with small charges and then settle them down. Horacek's illustrations are just right -- as breezy and bouncy as the text and alive with bright, simply applied color. This could be a bedtime favorite, with kids chanting right along. joanna rudge long. 32pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2013. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2014 |
| 2. Skinny Doug is Bonnie and Ben's favorite sitter, a fount of traditional rhymes. In crisply outlined illustrations--as breezy and bouncy as the text--the kids hop out of bed and take part in succinctly rendered visualizations of the rhymes. It's a clever way to introduce six old favorites--and to model how to engage with small charges and then settle them down. jrl. 32pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2014. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 05/20/2013 |
| Ages 3-5. This is one of those sneaky stories that starts out slight and unsurprising but is over far too soon. Fox combines the power of repetition with a lead character--a cool babysitter named Skinny Doug--who acts as a Scheherazade of nursery rhymes. His two charges immediately imagine themselves as players or spectators in the familiar rhymes: sitting in a yellow roadster (with Skinny Doug in the driver's seat), they watch the little piggy run down a hill saying, "Wee, wee, wee, wee," all the way home. Both enthralled and sensing a way to delay bedtime, the kids demand repeat performances (" 'We love it! We love it!' said Bonnie and Ben./ 'How does it go? Will you say it again?' "), only to discover that Skinny Doug always has a new tale up his striped sleeve. Horacek, Fox's collaborator on the Where Is the Green Sheep?, has again found a text ideal for her naif watercolor and ink cartoons. The pictures' visual directness and goofy playfulness capture the spirit of the timeless rhymes and the enviable relationship between the lanky storyteller and his adoring audience. (Aug.). 32p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
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| School Library Journal | 07/01/2013 |
| PreS-Gr 1. Skinny Doug is a babysitter with the heart of a poet. Bonnie and Ben are reluctant to go to bed. When Doug tucks them in, he recites the old saying, "Good night, sleep tight./Hope the fleas don't bite!/If they do,/squeeze 'em tight/and they won't bite/another night!" The children love it and ask him to repeat it. Doug says, "I will tell you another/I heard from my mother." He offers up another treasure ("It's raining, it's pouring..."), and the children beg to hear it again. On it goes, and over the course of the book, the excited siblings get to hear some wonderful old ditties and nursery rhymes. In the cleverest of ways, Fox has embedded a handful of childhood nonsense verses that beg to be read and said aloud into a fun story about the bedtime ritual. The cartoon illustrations are just lighthearted enough to complement the silliness of the verses. This book will be a surefire hit with the younger crowd and offers the perfect excuse to bring out volumes such as Iona Opie's Humpty Dumpty and Other Rhymes (Walker, 2001) and My Very First Mother Goose (Candlewick, 1996), Alma Flor Ada's Pio Peep!: Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes (HarperCollins, 2003), and Jane Chapman's Sing a Song of Sixpence (Candlewick, 2004). Joan Kindig, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA. 32p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013. |
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