Who Gets the Sun Out of Bed?

by Nancy White Carlstrom

Book Overview

Although the lazy sun is reluctant to rise, one by one the members of a cozy household get up. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316128295
• ISBN13: 9780316128292
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A MIDWINTER NIGHTS TALE

.This book is one of the most gentle, tranquil midwinter's tales you could ever read. It's the middle of winter. It's cold and dark outside. Who wants to get out of bed? None of us do, least of all Mr Sun.The snow is thick on the ground and the stars twinkle in the sky. Two wisps of smoke swirl skywards from the cottage chimney.The story line from Nancy White Carlstrom is almost poetic. Take these lines as an example."the house snores peacefully under the blanket, of new snow"."snow, shining, silvery the moon, the moon - get the sun out of bed"The illustrations are perfect. We get views of this little world from all perspectives. From an aerial scene we see animal footprints leading to the door. A subtle humour pervades the illustrations. The quirky Alaskan origins of the story shine through.We get a view from space. We see the large cratered moon in his last quarter. We see planet earth sleeping below, with the chimney smoke on the horizon. There is Mr Sun still asleep in his Four Poster bed under the covers.Now we are taken inside the cottage and we see the warm glow of the fire and the hissing kettle. Curled up in her basket beside the fire is the most beautiful, black rabbit. This bunny called Midnight is the little boy Nicholas' pet. Nicholas is fast asleep in a Four Poster bed just like Mr Sun's.We are all asked to solve the riddle of who does wake up Mr Sun? One guess is that it was Mr Moon, for it was the moon "who nudged awake Midnight". It was Midnight who nuzzled Nicholas awake, and together they both stood at the window and greeted the dawn.There is only one minor criticism of the book. It shows the sun rising while the moon is setting. This only happens around when the moon is full, yet in this book the moon is only a quarter full.In summary this is a fabulous book. Lobby the publishers and get it back into print. The best editions are printed in Italy where it seems some of the classier children's books get printed. The vivacity and warmth of the colours is a trademark of Italian printeries.