The Prince Won't Go to Bed! - Dayle Dodds
Rhyming romp sure to be a favorite bedtime read.
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- Author:Dayle Dodds
- # of pages: 32
- Publisher:Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Original Publication Date: 10/16/2007
- Genre: Fiction - Picture Book
- Hardcover: $16.00
- Publisher's Recommended Reading Level: 4-8
- Read Aloud: 4
- Read Alone: 6
Parents need to know
Families can talk about bedtime routines. What helps you get to sleep, and what keeps you awake? What do you think of the different things people do to help the Prince get comfortable?
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What's the story?
Reviewed by Patricia Tauzer
Is it any good?
THE PRINCE WON'T GO TO BED is a wonderfully artistic, funny, poetic bedtime book that presents a lighthearted look at a bedtime ritual gone wrong. Kids will love its rhyming, rhythmic language, the pacing, and the playful repetition of phrases as one scenario after another fails to calm the Prince and the "Waa! Waa! Waa's" begin anew.
Dayle Ann Dodd has the timing of a stand-up comedian and Kyrsten Brooker accents it all with her masterful artwork. Together, parent and child can have fun chanting the repeating parts while searching the vibrant collages that fill the pages. Kids, especially those who resist going to bed at night, will enjoy this story, and parents will love reading it aloud, over and over again as they put their own reluctant sleeper to bed.
Other choices
Other Stories of Troubled Bedtimes:
Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late by Mo Willems
Bedtime for Frances by Lillian & Russell Hoban
Another Collaboration by Dodds & Brooker:
Henry's Amazing Machine
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