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mdevlin923's review
4.0
A hilarious twist on the normal bedtime routine story between dads and their kids.
ellwynautumn's review
4.0
A role reversal between father and son, has the child playing the part of the parent at bedtime and all the shenanigans that go along with convincing an unruly dad he needs to go to sleep.
A comical story that will have fathers and children giggling as they read it through several times over.
A comical story that will have fathers and children giggling as they read it through several times over.
peonylantern's review
4.0
Mixed Media - illust. pencil with collaged elements (digital)
Funny & simple story from the other side (trying to get dad to do things - go to bed etc.)
Prose
Funny & simple story from the other side (trying to get dad to do things - go to bed etc.)
Prose
reader44ever's review
3.0
2.5 stars
I liked this book for its rather unique take on bedtimes for kids, but for almost the same reason I didn't particularly care for it.
The story showed bedtime with the child in the role of the parent, and the father in the role of a typical I'm-not-sleepy child. If you have a child who is reluctant to go to bed, this might be a good book to read to him/her to show how he/she would feel if the roles were reversed.
What I didn't like about the book was that the whole story was told within this role-reversal framework. There was never a point where the father playfully asked his child to put him to bed, or where the child explained that this was just a game they were playing. I would have liked the book more if there were such points in it.
As written, though, I didn't find the book fun. I was more saddened because I know that there are children in the world who are the adults in their households due to a lack or inability to care for the family on the part of the parent/s. The pages were made of such thick paperstock that I actually tried in vain to separate the final pages for a "just playing" explanation.
I liked this book for its rather unique take on bedtimes for kids, but for almost the same reason I didn't particularly care for it.
The story showed bedtime with the child in the role of the parent, and the father in the role of a typical I'm-not-sleepy child. If you have a child who is reluctant to go to bed, this might be a good book to read to him/her to show how he/she would feel if the roles were reversed.
What I didn't like about the book was that the whole story was told within this role-reversal framework. There was never a point where the father playfully asked his child to put him to bed, or where the child explained that this was just a game they were playing. I would have liked the book more if there were such points in it.
As written, though, I didn't find the book fun. I was more saddened because I know that there are children in the world who are the adults in their households due to a lack or inability to care for the family on the part of the parent/s. The pages were made of such thick paperstock that I actually tried in vain to separate the final pages for a "just playing" explanation.
tashrow's review against another edition
5.0
Translated from the French, this picture book takes the traditional bedtime story and turns it upside down. Every night it’s the same thing, Dad does not want to go to bed. The boy tries to get his father to bed nicely by using logic, but his dad just gets wilder and wilder. The boy refuses to chase after him, instead offering a quiet story together. That always works, and the two of them sit together in a chair: the father on the boy’s small lap. Two stories later, and the boy finally has his father tucked into bed, but the process is not done yet. The boy can’t head to his own bed yet or his father will ask to sleep with him. And though his father may be big and strong, he’s also afraid of the dark.
Read the rest of my review on my blog, Waking Brain Cells.
Read the rest of my review on my blog, Waking Brain Cells.
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