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When Daddy Snores
Daddy works, sometimes all night, and comes home to sleep during the day. Then the kids hear an awful noise. It's a sound that frightens all the girls and boys, scares their pets, and breaks their toys. Is it an airplane flying low, or maybe a dragon who stubbed his toe? Mom helps to investigate the source of the noise, and it's not one the kids have imagined.
32 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2011
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June 29, 2011
This is a fun little book written in rhyme that kids are sure to enjoy! Especially if they have a daddy that snores!
November 4, 2011
Super cute! I gave this to my son to read to his children <3 I loved the illustrations :)
May 27, 2011
This is a delightful book filled with silliness that the kids will love.
June 9, 2011
Just hilarious. Your kids will ask for this over and over.
November 15, 2011
When Daddy Snores is a children's picture book.
After their daddy comes home from work a boy and a girl try to determine what that awful noise is.
The sound there hear is terrible!! It can shake spiders off of walls; frighten the postman and the police; sound like thunder in a very bad storm; or maybe a lion or a tiger or a bear!
The two children seek and search and reason and rhyme to find the source of the sound. When mom comes home from the grocery store, she sets the two siblings straight.
This is a really cute book! It's small, compact and easily transportable. The prose is very catchy as it is full of rhymes and makes the story appeal in a sing-song kind of way.
The ideas the children come up with are funny, freaky and enjoyable for young readers to hear. This is even better if your child has a daddy who snores, then they can relate to the tale being told!
The artwork is done in an old cartoon style where the characters eyes are whited out kind of like Little Orphan Annie! Dark, bold strokes outline the bright colours set upon the pages. Illustrator Anthony Fisher is an award-winning artist and logo designer and is currently the chair of the Sequential Art program.
Author, David E. Jones, originally wrote "When Daddy Snores" in 1978 as a poem and read it to his three children at bedtime and it was not illustrated until 2005. This is Jones' first book and its about to go into its second printing!!
My kids just loved hearing the tale and my seven year old really digs rhymes so it appealed to her in a very fundamental way by meeting her standards of books. She quickly claimed it for her library and I often hear her trying to read from the pages.
After their daddy comes home from work a boy and a girl try to determine what that awful noise is.
The sound there hear is terrible!! It can shake spiders off of walls; frighten the postman and the police; sound like thunder in a very bad storm; or maybe a lion or a tiger or a bear!
The two children seek and search and reason and rhyme to find the source of the sound. When mom comes home from the grocery store, she sets the two siblings straight.
This is a really cute book! It's small, compact and easily transportable. The prose is very catchy as it is full of rhymes and makes the story appeal in a sing-song kind of way.
The ideas the children come up with are funny, freaky and enjoyable for young readers to hear. This is even better if your child has a daddy who snores, then they can relate to the tale being told!
The artwork is done in an old cartoon style where the characters eyes are whited out kind of like Little Orphan Annie! Dark, bold strokes outline the bright colours set upon the pages. Illustrator Anthony Fisher is an award-winning artist and logo designer and is currently the chair of the Sequential Art program.
Author, David E. Jones, originally wrote "When Daddy Snores" in 1978 as a poem and read it to his three children at bedtime and it was not illustrated until 2005. This is Jones' first book and its about to go into its second printing!!
My kids just loved hearing the tale and my seven year old really digs rhymes so it appealed to her in a very fundamental way by meeting her standards of books. She quickly claimed it for her library and I often hear her trying to read from the pages.
June 17, 2013
"When Daddy Snores" by David E. Jones, is a cute little story about two children whose father works nights, and sleeps during the day. But when their father is asleep, he snores. The children do not know WHAT that loud noise is, so they imagine all sorts of possibilities.
Eventually the police and fire departments get called out, because "that awful noise... frightened all the girls and boys, scared their pets and broke their toys."
This book is written for entertainment only. It doesn't teach the alphabet, or numbers, or good manners, or any moral. It's just supposed to be a fun way for children to cope with their father's snoring!
If I may be allowed, I want to insert a personal tale here. When I was young, my father didn't work nights, but he still snored when he slept at night. He snored so loudly that it frequently woke me up. Like the kids in this book, I had no idea WHAT that noise was, but in my imagination - and even in my dreams - it was a massive lion, prowling through the house, looking for somebody to eat. I would lay in my bed terrified of moving, lest I should alert the lion to my presence! Absolutely true story.
Back to the book, I think a lot of kids will get a real kick out of this, because I think a lot of dads snore. And if they snore, I think their kids have had occasion to wonder what the noise was. They may have figured it out, or they may have laid in bed, unmoving, out of fear of the "lion" in the house. Regardless, I do believe this would be a fun story to add to Junior's book collection. It even had me laughing several times. It's got my recommendation!
Eventually the police and fire departments get called out, because "that awful noise... frightened all the girls and boys, scared their pets and broke their toys."
This book is written for entertainment only. It doesn't teach the alphabet, or numbers, or good manners, or any moral. It's just supposed to be a fun way for children to cope with their father's snoring!
If I may be allowed, I want to insert a personal tale here. When I was young, my father didn't work nights, but he still snored when he slept at night. He snored so loudly that it frequently woke me up. Like the kids in this book, I had no idea WHAT that noise was, but in my imagination - and even in my dreams - it was a massive lion, prowling through the house, looking for somebody to eat. I would lay in my bed terrified of moving, lest I should alert the lion to my presence! Absolutely true story.
Back to the book, I think a lot of kids will get a real kick out of this, because I think a lot of dads snore. And if they snore, I think their kids have had occasion to wonder what the noise was. They may have figured it out, or they may have laid in bed, unmoving, out of fear of the "lion" in the house. Regardless, I do believe this would be a fun story to add to Junior's book collection. It even had me laughing several times. It's got my recommendation!
May 18, 2013
This is a really cute little picture book that involves rhyme and imagination. The children in the book try to imagine various sources for the loud noise they hear after Daddy goes to bed. They come up with lots of great and inventive ideas.
A sweet story to share with the kids in your life.
A sweet story to share with the kids in your life.
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