The Napping House
In this cumulative tale, a wakeful flea atop a number of sleeping creatures causes a commotion, with just one bite.
Stats for nerds
2recommend
3mentions
3people
2015–2025years
67% recommend33% neutral
Mentions per year
What Hacker News says
- Napping House and Pokey Little Puppy were two of my favorites to read with my kids along with the Little Blue Truck.
- The Napping House by Audrey Wood
All the picture books of William Joyce
Paul O. Zelinsky's Rumpelstiltskin
- My 3 year old daughter asks every night (for the past month) for "The Napping House", in which we have verious sleeping creatures stacked on top, with much repetition. She ALWAYS asks me to swap the adjectives -- e.g., "snoozing dog, dozing cat" rather than "dozing dog, snoozing cat". She gets it right every darn time, too.
She even wants to swap the words that have plot-meaning -- like, why is the mouse wakeful, and how does a slumbering flea bite the wakeful mouse? /shrug. It's been my carrot to get her to try and read it herself.
