Once Upon a Time, the End (Asleep in 60 Seconds)
by Geoffrey Kloske and Barry Blitt
Summary:
Once Upon a Time, the End (Asleep in 60 Seconds) is a collection of fractured fairy tales, a few nursery rhymes, and bible story all told by a father who just wants his child to go to sleep. The desperate dad keeps cutting the stories shorter and shorter until they all lived...
Evaluation:
This is one of my favorite books yet! The authors have taken well known and loved tales and nursery rhymes and turned them into a hilarious collection. The overall story of the dad trying to get his child to go to sleep is perfectly interwoven within the collection of fractured fairy tales, folk tales, nursery rhymes, and bible story he is telling.
Princess Pea for example:
Every young girl wanted to marry the prince.
To find a princess, the prince's mother put a pea
Under the mattress to see how each would sleep.
They all slept soundly, except one-she was so sensitive,
She had not slept well.
And so she married the prince.
Is there a pea under your bed?
Then what's your excuse?
Go to bed.
The watercolor illustrations in this book are as wonderful as the stories. My 4 year old daughter is already reading this book along with me every night. We both laughs ourselves silly every time we read it. Now she is even taking other fairy tales and retelling them herself.
Genre and Age Group:
3-5 years and up
Folk Tale
Fairy Tale
