Once Upon a Time, the End (Asleep in 60 Seconds)

by Geoffrey Kloske

Book Overview

Once upon a time there was a grown-up looking for a book with very short bedtime stories for a kid who wouldn't go to sleep. So the grown-up picked up this book and read this flap and took the book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689866194
• ISBN13: 9780689866197
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.3" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Great bedtime story. Makes a fantastic gift!

This is our favorite bedtime story. It is fun and witty. It is a book parents really enjoy reading to their children. Every parent can relate to the exhausted dad trying to shorten stories to get his child to bed. I keep copies on hand always, because we give this book as a gift at almost every birthday party and baby shower that we get invited to. You can't go wrong with this funny and fun to read book.

Kloske just told our secret

This book was a gift and now I am giving it to everyone I know with young children. Kloske has definitely been there--all those nights we parents cut out a few words from a story to get to sleep that much sooner--if the book weren't so funny, I'd feel like he told our secret. This book is hysterical. Our six year old gets the humor and the younger children love the stories. Now "are you asleep yet?" is a nighttime family catch phrase. It's well worth every penny.

WONDERFUL!

This is such a charming, fun and happy book. My children (2 and 4) giggle all the through the book. We love it so much, I have purchased more for gifts. So many wonderful bed time stories with such a clever twist!

Fun for kids AND adults!

Our secret is out! We thought we were the only people who cut words out so the stories would go faster, but apparently not! The result is some hysterically mangled little classics (like the "two little pigs", and "there were some bears, it doesn't matter how many"). The first time we read this, I laughed myself silly. My kids aren't old enough to get all the jokes, but love it just the same. A winner---I'm buying more copies to give as gifts to some other parents who (some nights) struggle through too many bedtime stories...

Hilarious!

I admit it ... I'm one of those parents who sometimes just wants to get storytime over with. We always read three books a night, and this will be in our rotation for quite some time, I predict. This is hilarious! A book with an attitude. Gotta love it. Still laughing ...