Thursday, June 26, 2008

Little Hoot

By Amy Krouse Rosenthal; illustrated by Jen Corace

PICTURE BOOK


This book is an amusing twist on a familiar childhood dilemma - bedtime. Little Hoot does not like bedtime, but for a completely different reason: he wants to go to bed early like his friends, but "when you're an owl, you have to stay up late, late, late." It's not fair that he has to stay up playing. When he complains to his parents, they tell him he has to stay up for one more hour! Oh no! Little Hoot doesn't like this at all. Will he ever get to go to bed? This is a charming story for bedtime. The illustrations are wonderful at conveying Little Hoot's feelings through his facial expressions and mannerisms. Children will delight in this story and it's take on bedtime.

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