Time for Bed, Fred!
- 그림작가 Yasmeen Ismail
- 글작가 Yasmeen Ismail
- 출판사 워커 칠드런스 (Walker Children's)
- 페이지32 쪽
- 발행일2014-02-11
- 수상내역
책 내용
Meet Fred--a mischievous, playful, loving dog. It"s time for Fred to go to bed . . . but Fred really, really doesn"t want to! From hiding up in trees, to splashing in muddy puddles, to hiding behind bookshelves, Fred will do anything to avoid bedtime. He would even rather have a bath than go to bed . . . but all of this running couldn"t possibly have possibly made Fred sleepy--could it? Bound to strike a chord with parents and children with their own bedtime distraction techniques, Yasmeen Ismail"s hilarious text and cheerful, vivid illustrations will have every reader shouting by the very last page, \"Time for Bed, Fred!\"
출판사 보도자료
From School Library Journal
PreS-Gr 1—Fred is a dog that isn"t quite ready for bed. He climbs a tree, dives into a mud puddle, races out of his bathtub sopping wet, and clutches a book expectantly in his mouth. After one last ditch effort to sleep in his owner"s bed, a smiling Fred is finally tucked into his own pad with a bone and ball. Ismail"s illustrations are reminiscent of Norton Juster"s exuberant and colorful images while Fred"s antics make him a kindred spirit to Chris Raschka"s Daisy. Ismail cleverly uses exclamations and rhetorical questions to liven up the familiar lets-get-ready-for-bed storyline. This book works well as a read aloud, as it begs for audience participation, and will likely become a bedtime favorite.—Jenna Boles, Greene County Public Library, Beavercreek, OH
From Booklist
Meet Fred, the latest in a long line of irascible picture-book pooches whose misbehavior only makes them all the sweeter. The clock has struck eight, which, according to our unseen narrator, means it’s bedtime for bozos. But Fred is not really down with that. He hides in the flower bed, a tree, and a mud puddle, which means bath time—a clever delay tactic, eh? Then it’s back to hiding in a watering can, the sink, a bookshelf, the laundry basket, you name it. Ismail has channeled Chris Raschka’s work here, most explicitly the beloved A Ball for Daisy (2011). Like Daisy, Fred is illustrated in watercolors that seem to soak through the page in thick blotches and rich, saturated colors. The effect is a wonderful sense of motion when Fred shakes off from a bath, he becomes roughly 10 thick lines of whirling fur—abstract and yet perfectly understandable. All ends well, of course, for this happy little demented doggie, just how readers (and listeners) like it. Preschool-Kindergarten. --Daniel Kraus
PreS-Gr 1—Fred is a dog that isn"t quite ready for bed. He climbs a tree, dives into a mud puddle, races out of his bathtub sopping wet, and clutches a book expectantly in his mouth. After one last ditch effort to sleep in his owner"s bed, a smiling Fred is finally tucked into his own pad with a bone and ball. Ismail"s illustrations are reminiscent of Norton Juster"s exuberant and colorful images while Fred"s antics make him a kindred spirit to Chris Raschka"s Daisy. Ismail cleverly uses exclamations and rhetorical questions to liven up the familiar lets-get-ready-for-bed storyline. This book works well as a read aloud, as it begs for audience participation, and will likely become a bedtime favorite.—Jenna Boles, Greene County Public Library, Beavercreek, OH
From Booklist
Meet Fred, the latest in a long line of irascible picture-book pooches whose misbehavior only makes them all the sweeter. The clock has struck eight, which, according to our unseen narrator, means it’s bedtime for bozos. But Fred is not really down with that. He hides in the flower bed, a tree, and a mud puddle, which means bath time—a clever delay tactic, eh? Then it’s back to hiding in a watering can, the sink, a bookshelf, the laundry basket, you name it. Ismail has channeled Chris Raschka’s work here, most explicitly the beloved A Ball for Daisy (2011). Like Daisy, Fred is illustrated in watercolors that seem to soak through the page in thick blotches and rich, saturated colors. The effect is a wonderful sense of motion when Fred shakes off from a bath, he becomes roughly 10 thick lines of whirling fur—abstract and yet perfectly understandable. All ends well, of course, for this happy little demented doggie, just how readers (and listeners) like it. Preschool-Kindergarten. --Daniel Kraus
일러스트레이터 소개
Yasmeen Ismail is an award-winning illustrator and animator who has a love of inks, paints and watercolours. Time For Bed, Fred! is her debut picture book. Originally from Ireland, Yasmeen now lives in London.