Pre-K-Primary
The bed in a napping house slowly finds more and more sleeping creatures pile upon it until the bed breaks and everyone wakes up.
This is a perfect wind-down story and a great introduction to repatition.

The Napping House is a fun and funny book, with great illustrations and a repeating poem.

It might be fun to see the dog in less pain for the full 5 Stars. ( )

Delightfully written and illustrated with lush pastel colors. Mindful of picture books that add on from one element to the next until they all fall down.

Inside the napping house is a granny who snores while she sleeps. And on that bed where the granny is sleeping, is a child who dreams atop the snoring granny, and everything in the room is hushed and dream like.
Adding to the granny and the boy is a dozing dog who sleeps atop the sleeping boy who sprawls across the snoring granny.

The snoozing cat climbs aboard the dozing dog and the dreaming child and a dozing granny in the soft house where everyone is sleeping. Added to this ever climbing combination of a snoozing cat, a dozing dog, a sleeping child and a snoring granny, arrives a soft slumbering cat.

The pile grows every larger and more contentedly sleeping, until added on the top is a mouse who has a little bitty flea. The wakeful bitty flea, bites the mouse who jumps off the bed, and awakens the cat that was snoozing and now awakens the dozing dog and the sleepy boy who stirs the snoring granny and then they all fall on the floor as the bed breaks.

And as the dance of being awake occurs in the bright sunny morning, the free spirited group watch the sun and the outside where there is only love and gladness. The awaken where there are lush flowers flopping over the white wooden gate that surrounds the green grass where there are two large, beautiful trees on either side of the creamy cottage, where the windows have wooden slats on each side of the four windows, two on each side, with a delightful small window that rests above the door that has a roof and a dancing granny with her arms outstretched as she is singing a song of ever lovely bright notes.

I enjoyed the rhythm of the writing and the delightfulness of the story. The pastel colors are soothingly beautiful as a welcoming rainbow colors the sky. ( )

Not a good book to read in the morning. It will make you want a nap. :) ( )

This add on story depicts a granny sleeping in a bed with various other characters. The story gets more outrageous as the story builds. ( )