The Slumber Party - Hardcover

Wild, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395665981 ISBN 13: 9780395665985

Publisher: Ticknor & Fields, 1993

Synopsis

Jane's birthday sleepover is a night of games, a lost mouse, a croaking frog, a little sleep, and a lot of fun

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Wild is a children's book editor as well as an acclaimed writer for children. She currently lives in Australia.

From Publishers Weekly:

As this restive story opens, Jane writes invitations to her birthday slumber party. Wild ( Let the Celebrations Begin! ; The Very Best of Friends ) then introduces the guests by describing what each one packs to bring to the bash: Cassie stows her electric toothbrush, since "she brushes her teeth all the time"; Brenda lays in "her water gun, some water balloons, her plastic doggie doo, and her black rubber spider"; Liam chooses his summer space-suit pajamas, ignoring his mother's warnings that they're not warm enough. The rather choppy text is presented as a series of extended captions alongside panels of Cox's ( Bossyboots ) copious, blithely energetic watercolors; the tale continues by chronicling the events of the evening. Jane's new white mouse escapes (and shows up later in her parents' bed); Emma suffers because her best friend is ignoring her; Brenda sneaks an unlikely midnight snack of birthday cake followed by "half a jar of dill pickles and the next day's chicken"; Cassie brushes her teeth incessantly. By the time Wild and Cox finish reporting on this busy but uninvolving party, however, the strongest impression may be that you really had to be there. Ages 4-7.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0395665981
• ISBN 13: 9780395665985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Cox David