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Sleep Tight, Anna Banana!
Author:
Roques, Dominique
Illustrator:
Dormal, Alexis
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Class:
Easy
Age: 3-6
Language: English
Descriptors: Translation, Picture Book
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LC: PZ7.R679
Grade: P-1
Print Run: 25000
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ISBN-13: 9781626720190
LCCN: 2015296324
Imprint: First Second
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
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Pub Date: 06/17/2014
Availability: Out of Print Confirmed
List: $15.99
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Hardcover Reinforced
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Physical Description:
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 x 27 cm
H 7.78",
W 10.29",
D 0.39",
0.68 lbs.
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
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TIPS Subjects:
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Bedtime Stories/Poems/Music
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE FICTION / Bedtime & Dreams
JUVENILE FICTION / Toys, Dolls & Puppets
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LC Subjects:
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Bedtime
Bedtime, Fiction
Bedtime, Juvenile fiction
Fiction
Friendship
Friendship, Fiction
Friendship, Juvenile fiction
Juvenile works
Noise
Noise, Fiction
Noise, Juvenile fiction
Stuffed animals (Toys)
Stuffed animals (Toys), Fiction
Stuffed animals (Toys), Juvenile fiction
Toys, Fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Bedtime, Fiction
Stuffed animals (Toys), Fiction
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| Annotations |
| Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 06/01/2014 |
| Anna Banana's stuffed animals have had enough. Fed up with the torment Anna puts them through when she cannot fall asleep, they plot their revenge and prepare to strike the instant the troublemaker finally closes her eyes. 28pp., Color Ill. |
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| Journal Reviews |
| BookPage | 07/09/2014 |
| For many parents, getting the little ones to consent to sleep is a contest of wills requiring the skills of a diplomat. Fortunately, a terrific new picture book has arrived that can help families keep the peace. Sleep Tight, Anna Banana!, by mother-and-son team Dominique Roques and Alexis Dormal, shows that bedtime can be a blast, especially when the company includes a group of irresistible critters intent on making mischief. Tucked in bed, flanked by her favorite stuffed pals, Anna Banana has her nose deep in a book despite her parents' orders to go to sleep. Soon her fuzzy friends start to complain. They're tired! Grizzler, Foxface, Whaley and the rest of the crew urge Anna to put out the light, but she's too interested in her book to pay attention. When she's finally ready to sleep, her friends give her a taste of her own medicine by pulling some pranks--a musical serenade, a sprint around the room--that make it impossible for her to snooze. After a bit of negotiating and an apology from Anna ("I'm sorry, my little peeps."), the gang settles down for sweet dreams. Or so it seems . . . First published in France, Roques' appealing tale brims with late-night merriment. The story's ebullient illustrations, presented panel-style and executed in mixed media by Dormal, bring this one-of-a-kind slumber party to life. Who knew that hitting the hay could be such fun? Once little readers become acquainted with Anna Banana, they're bound to look forward to bedtime!. Julie Hale. 28p. BookPage Children’s Corner Web Exclusive Review. BOOKPAGE, c2014. |
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| Horn Book | 09/01/2014 |
| Preschool, Primary. In a peaceful-looking opening scene, Anna Banana, a little girl with a thick mane of yellow hair, lies in bed reading a book. Her stuffed-animal friends are cozily arranged around her pillow, just so. However, a page turn reveals that the toys aren't happy: "Anna Banana! We're sleepy!" They attempt various protests (escaping/singing a lullaby/turning the light off), but unsympathetic Anna isn't having any of it. She barely stops reading to grab, muffle, and restrain all six of her friends. "Anna likes to have ALL her stuffed animals around her." Eventually she's ready to sleep, but her disgruntled and exhausted roommates have been pushed too far. Once the light is turned off--it's on. The animals put on a midnight concert; they jump on the bed; they race one another across the room. Anna is furious--and oblivious to the irony: "I WANT TO SLEEP!" she yells. The cheery cartoon illustrations are full of expression, and Dormal's loose style calls to mind Arthur Howard's. Roques's hand-lettered speech-bubble text moves briskly along, commenting on the action and providing the characters and the art with much comedic fodder. kitty flynn. 24pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2014. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2015 |
| 2. Anna Banana lies in bed reading a book, her stuffed-animal friends cozily arranged around her. However, a page turn reveals the toys aren't happy: "Anna Banana! We're sleepy!" Eventually she's ready to sleep, but her disgruntled and exhausted roommates have been pushed too far. Roques's hand-lettered speech-bubble text moves briskly along, and Dormal's cheery cartoon illustrations are full of expression. kf. 24pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2015. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 05/01/2014 |
| A comics-inspired delight from France--the graphic-novel publisher's first picture book--introduces an appealingly feisty girl to a U.S. audience.Way past bedtime, Anna Banana's engrossed in her book, finding it alternately "fascinating...frightening...hilarious...gripping." Her six bleary stuffed toys try to sleep, but Anna's loud guffaw startles them awake. Each critter--including Foxface, Whaley and Pingpong the penguin--tries to steal away for some shut-eye, only to be hauled back by Anna, who prefers being surrounded by her pals. Finally, she's tired enough to turn out the light. But her sleepy entourage turns the tables, staging an impromptu musicale, a spirited group bed-jumping session and a running race. Anna protests vociferously, then apologizes to her "little peeps" for her belligerent behavior--and it's lights out for all. Or is it? Roques' cheery, translated text appears in word balloons. Dormal's mixed-media illustrations, in borderless panels and spots (often four to a page), exude a cartoonish zeal. Illustrations on endpapers add to the narrative (though jacket flaps obscure too much of it). The toys' impressive emotional range is deftly captured, and clever details (such as Whaley spouting when Anna startles the group awake) should amuse both parents and kids.This tidy little package could inspire an uptick in bedtime exuberance. Happily, another outing with Anna and company is planned. (Picture book. 3-7). 28pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2014. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 04/21/2014 |
| Ages 3-7. Tucked contentedly into bed with her book and surrounded by half a dozen stuffed animals, Anna Banana may look like a mild-mannered sweetheart, but that's not entirely the case. Just ask those stuffed animals. "Anna Banana! We're sleepy!" protests teddy bear Grizzler. "Well, just close your eyes!" she responds. One by one, the animals try to find somewhere dark and not punctuated by Anna's loud laughter to sleep, but she's not letting anyone leave. "Anna likes to have ALL her stuffed animals around her," writes French author Roques as Dormal shows Anna snagging Foxface by his tail and yanking Fuzzball away from the lamp he tries to turn off. Eventually, Anna gets tired, and that's when her now-surly toys decide to teach her a lesson that boils down to "turnabout is fair play"--accordions, couples dancing, and footraces all factor in. It's a fairly straightforward story about being considerate of others (even if they're filled with stuffing), but the mischievous physical comedy that Dormal brings to his loosely scrawled cartoons keeps it from ever feeling didactic or dull. (June). 28p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2014. |
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| School Library Journal | 06/01/2014 |
| PreS-Gr 1. Anna Banana learns a bit about consideration for others in this amusing story. She takes all of her beloved stuffed animals (who talk, of course) to bed with her. Even though she's supposed to have turned out the lights, her book is too "fascinating...frightening...hilarious...gripping" to put down. Meanwhile, her exhausted friends try every tactic to get the exuberant girl to go to sleep. When she is finally tired, they turn the tables on her to see how she likes it. Finally, peace and quiet are restored. The comical illustrations, laid out in a variety of sizes and shapes, show a lot of movement and expression, especially through body language. Much of the tale is told through dialogue balloons and will make for a fun read-aloud. The lesson is not heavy-handed, and the humor keeps the story moving along at a brisk, entertaining pace. B. Allison Gray, Goleta Public Library, CA. 28p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2014. |
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