Reviews for The Napping House

The average rating for The Napping House based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-03-15 00:00:00 Michael Atherton I thought this book was so cozy, cute and funny, simple and adorable. We see a house asleep at night. The bed starts out with grandma snoring and then the grandchild gets on top of her and the dog on top of him and the cat on top of the dog and finally the mouse tops it all off. A flea bits the mouse and each page shows them waking up. Like I said, simple, but simply marvelous. I would like to own this for the sheer joy of it. Sheer joy. The nephew loved this story. He thought them sleeping on each other in a pile and each page they were in a different position was the best. When they were getting up, that tickled him. He gave this 4 stars. Bravo.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-31 00:00:00 Paul Robinson Well, since for some reason several people are being nice enough to like my non-review, I'll just say there are probably several core books in any house that are read in the "formative" years when you are trying to figure out how to make the little urchins happy and/or get them to sleep, books you wear out, ripped and torn and ragged, spattered with baby food and milk and vomit, books that are indistinguishable from your parenting years and this is one of mine, one I look back with a kind of sweet longing, in spite of the fact there might at the time been partly desperation: "will he for the love of god not sleep?" But this is funny, silly, one of those where each occupant of a house piles on to the sleeping Gramma until the bed breaks (see James Thurber's "The Night the Bed Fell,") and all Holy Heck (children are involved here, now) breaks loose. No napping, henceforth, but certain smiles ensue. I stop to ask my three teenagers, playing Monopoly as I write this during the deepening Coronavirus crisis, and ask them, "You remember The Napping House?!" and they cry out "Yes, I remember when the cat jumps on and screeches!" "Everything is all peaceful and a cat goes to sleep on a dog and then a mouse. . ." "The gnat bites the mouse that wakes the cat that wakes the dog and so suddenly no one is napping!" You know, it's a pretty good life after all. Or can be!