Two brothers use their imaginations to turn their surroundings--from a white bandana and yellow coins to a red blanket and even their baby sister--into a colorful pirate adventure before naptime. Full color.
Now international bestseller SARK offers a guide to achieving health, wealth, and well-being through the simple joy of naps. An experienced napper herself, SARK shows how a good nap can make you more deluxe, creative, sexy, funny, intriguing, and flexible. Conjuring up the hours of 'quiet time' we all remember from childhood, she suggests great places for napping, provides instructions for indulging in fantasy naps, and offers a host of good excuses for taking a nap. Featuring SARK's drawings in full colour on every page, CHANGE YOUR LIFE WITHOUT GETTING OUT OF BED is the perfect gift for mothers and their families. For, as Maya Angelou put it, 'We, in the world, and this weary old world itself, have a gaping need for SARK. Let's call for more and more SARK to fill every child's book bag and each attache case.'
Discusses why napping is important to physical and mental health, explains sleep patterns and how napping can enhance them, and includes a "Nap Wheel" on the front cover to help readers plan the optimum nap.
A humorous naptime book for baby (and sleepy mama, too) from best-selling author Margie Palatini and award-winning illustrator Dan Yaccarino. Includes Read Aloud/Read to Me feature where available. Readers embark on a fast-paced chase through every room in the house as we follow Mommy on her quest to settle Baby down for nap. Dashing from family room to living room, both on the table and under it, through the kitchen and even hiding in the laundry basket, this hilarious romp culminates with mommy and baby collapsed - AT LAST -- fast asleep in a chair.
Every year Tortoise sleeps through winter. He assumes he isn't missing much. However, his friends are determined to prove otherwise! Will Tortoise sleep through another winter, or will his friends convince him to stay awake and experience the frosty fun of winter? Best-selling author Katy Hudson's charming picture book will have everyone excited for winter.
J ÜRGEN AscHOFF "Very bad habit! Very bad habit!" Captain Giles to Joseph Conrad who had taken a siesta. -Conrad: The Shadow Line On the Multiplicity of Rest-Activity Cycles: Some Historical and Conceptual Notes According to its title this book tries to answer the profound question of why we nap-and why Captain Giles was wrong in blaming Conrad for having napped. However, in this volume the term nap is not used in the narrower sense of an afternoon siesta; instead, emphasis is placed on the recurrent alternation between states of alertness and drowsiness, i. e. , on rest-activity cycles of high er frequency throughout the 24 hr. In view of this focus, two authors (Stampi, in Chapter I, and Ball, in Chapter 3) rightly refer to the psychologist Szymanski who was among the first to describe "polyphasic" activity patterns. Hence, I consider it appropriate to open this foreword with a few historical remarks. At the time when Szymanski (1920) made the distinction between "monophasic" and "polyphasic" rest-activity patterns and sleep-wake cy cles, respectively, not much was known about the mechanisms of such temporal structures. Although the botanists quite some time ago had demonstrated the endogenous nature of the "monophasic" sleep movements in plants, the hypothesis of an (still unknown) external driving force was favored by those who studied rhythms in animals and humans (Aschoff, 1990).
This playful story celebrates the joy of a refreshing nap--while introducing some simple Spanish vocabulary. Young children are busy all day long--running and climbing, looking and laughing--and in the middle of a full day of fun, there's nothing like taking a break for a small nap. This is the time of day to have a little dream--sueñito--that gives the afternoon some added sweetness. Look at me RUN. Mis pies go fast! Look at me READ. Mis ojos explore! Kids will soon be chiming in with the Spanish words for their body parts, as they wind down and get ready for that refreshing nap. And they will love poring through the pages of toddlers at play in an imaginary multicolored world that is full of happiness, setting the stage for their dreams.
It's nap time for Little Sister, but she isn't sleepy. What will Mom do? Little ones who don't like to nap will enjoy this sweet Little Critter story about nap time! Perfect for children ages 3-7! Little Sister does not want to take a nap. She is not tired at all. She tries to rest, but she is hungry and thirsty. Little Sister will learn that Mom knows best in this adorable picture book. It’s perfect for naptime or bedtime reads!
Shhh…someone is TRYING to sleep in this rowdy picture book, winner of the General Mills Spoonful of Stories contest. The newest winner of the General Mills Spoonfuls of Stories contest is a young boy who’s very tired from his busy day, but can’t seem to find enough peace and quiet to fall asleep. Can I Just Take a Nap? is the winner of the 4th annual Cheerios® New Author Contest. Selected from more than 8,000 entries by a team of editors, teachers, librarians, and General Mills staff, Can I Just Take a Nap? will also appear in a bilingual (English/Spanish) mini-paperback edition in 3 million specially marked boxes of Cheerios.