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Synopsis
Three little gophers, out on a hike, have lost their way. They find a house in the woods, but no one is home. Timidly, they open the door and go inside, where it is warm and cozy. The gophers can't resist climbing into the bed to rest. Before too long, they are joined by two bunny rabbits and three raccoons who have also lost their way. Just as they are all settled down for the night in the nice, big bed, the door opens once more -- and this time it's the owner of the house!
Who the real owner is and how he treats his unexpected visitors makes a happy and reassuring ending to this delightful story. The illustrations are filled with enchanting details and subtle surprises that will make small children and grownups laugh together and go right back to the beginning to look at each picture again.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Japanese
Review
A comforting bedtime tale is this reissue of a picture book first published in 1982 (only its jacket has been revised). With low-key color-penciled illustrations in soft pastel shades, artist Yasuko Koide perfectly complements his wife Tan's spare and mildly suspenseful tale about three gophers, two bunny rabbits, and a trio of raccoons who take shelter in a mysteriously unoccupied house when they lose their way in the fog as night falls. When "something huge and dark" walks in on them, all snuggled comfortably in a big four-poster bed, listeners/viewers will fear the worst. But the bear in this tale, unlike the ursine threesome in Goldilocks and the Three Bears, turns out to be a perfect host. He treats his small trespassers to some hot stew before joining them in bed to sleep soundly till the morning. A simple tale, simply told and illustrated, May We Sleep Here Tonight? is sure to please as many toddlers today as it did 20 years ago during the last millennium.
Reviewed by Selma G. Lanes, Parents' Choice® 2000 -- From Parents' Choice®
Roger Sutton Horn Book Magazine "Great!...My hands-down favorite to close a story hour." -- Review
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0571133827
- ISBN 13 9780571133826
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages32
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