The Napping House By Audrey Wood

This book is illustrated by Audrey's husband, Don Wood. The story begins with the exterior of this “Napping House” and we see that it is raining. Right away the reader gets the motivation for taking a nap on such a dreary day! We see that everyone in this house is napping in their cozy beds. This is a book that begins to repeat the last sentence as the story moves along. For example, “and on that granny there is a child, a dreaming child, on a snoring granny, on a cozy bed, in a napping house, where everyone is sleeping.” This is a great book to use with children who are just beginning to read. They begin to pick up on the repetition and it makes them feel confident about their reading! The story moves along and we see a cat, dog and a flea appear on the bed until the flea bites the cat and alarms everyone until they get off of the bed. As each disappears we see the sun coming out in the window behind the bed. On the last page we see the exterior of the house with a rainbow behind it with the sunshine!