Five in A Bed

by Dave King

The counting rhyme is presented via photographs of a group of stuffed animals who one-by-one fall out of bed until there was only one left and that one said, "I want my friends back in bed!"

16 pages, Board Book

First published September 1, 2003

About the author

Dave King holds a BFA in painting
and film from Cooper Union and an MFA in writing from Columbia University. King's debut novel, The Ha-Ha, was named one of the best books of 2005 by The Christian Science Monitor and The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and was among eighteen books included on The Washington Post list of the season's best novels. The Ha-Ha was a finalist for Book-of-the-Month Club's "Best Literary Fiction" award and the Quills Foundation "Best Debut Author" award and won King a 2006-07 Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

King's poetry has been published in The Paris Review, among other venues, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has taught English at Baruch College and cultural studies and poetry at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and he divides his time between Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley of New York.

The Ha-Ha is currently in development from Warner Brothers Pictures, with Tod Williams slated to direct. The book has also found success in several foreign language editions, with more forthcoming.

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bright, colorful photographs of stuffed animals illustrate the classic rhyme. Our kiddos loved it from the time they started paying attention to the books that we read them until they were 2 or 3 years old.