Good Night Pillow Fight
Title: Good Night Pillow Fight
Author: Sally Cook
Illustrator: Laura Cornell
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
Year of Publication: 2004
Genre: Fiction
Horn Book rating: 3
Summary: In a few short words, Good Night Pillow Fight tells the tale of a parent putting their child to sleep and the antics that they include.
Summary of Professional Reviews: The nightly bedtime battle begins as parents fight with their children to get them to go to bed with the short corresponding texts (parents in red, children in blue). The words are brought to life by lively illustrations and the routines that ever parent goes through with their children at night.
Review by Terese Wylie: As the bedtime routine begins, Sally Cook reveals the true background of putting young children to bed. As Cornell's watercolor illustrations reveal a neighborhood and the many parents fighting with their children to get them to bed. Cook uses a dialogue style text that includes the parents' pleas while showing the children's procrastination. The text is simple and can be read by children or as a cooperative reading between children and an adult.
This book would be useful when teaching...
Author: Sally Cook
Illustrator: Laura Cornell
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
Year of Publication: 2004
Genre: Fiction
Horn Book rating: 3
Summary: In a few short words, Good Night Pillow Fight tells the tale of a parent putting their child to sleep and the antics that they include.
Summary of Professional Reviews: The nightly bedtime battle begins as parents fight with their children to get them to go to bed with the short corresponding texts (parents in red, children in blue). The words are brought to life by lively illustrations and the routines that ever parent goes through with their children at night.
Review by Terese Wylie: As the bedtime routine begins, Sally Cook reveals the true background of putting young children to bed. As Cornell's watercolor illustrations reveal a neighborhood and the many parents fighting with their children to get them to bed. Cook uses a dialogue style text that includes the parents' pleas while showing the children's procrastination. The text is simple and can be read by children or as a cooperative reading between children and an adult.
This book would be useful when teaching...
- Good Night Pillow Fight can be used during a reading lesson where one person (adult, teacher, or child) would read one part and then the other part would be read by the opposite person.
- Good Night Pillow Fight can be used as a calming book before or during quiet period during the day.