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Title: Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban ISBN: 0-06-443451-6 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 October, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.48 (31 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Book But Be Careful Who You Buy It For!
Comment: This was a favorite book of mine when I was a little girl and I have very fond memories of my parents reading it to me at bedtime. I wanted to buy this book for my niece but I'm a little leary of that because of the reviews about the threat of a spanking the father in the story uses to get Frances to go to bed as for the spanking part in the book either I just don't remember that part at all or maybe my parents skipped that part when they read it to me, and if they did read that part obviously I wasn't traumatised by it and I still have fond memories of the book maybe because I was like Frances a major procrastinater at bedtime who took a long time to finally get to sleep! So though I liked this book I would be careful of who it was bought for, definitely not a book to give to a child who's parents only like politically correct childern's books. Though I still have fond memories of the book I do understand why some feel uncomfortable by the spanking I Know someone who while reading the nursery rhyme The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe to her nephew and having liking it when she was little but she was dismayed by the line she whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed but instead of not allowing him to hear the whole nusery rhyme she read it to him but skipped the whipped them all soundly part so the same thing can be done with Bedtime For Frances you can just skip the spanking part.
Rating: 5
Summary: Give kids some credit!
Comment: This is the very best bedtime story ever! Frances uses every delicious, clever ploy that pops into that fuzzy little badger head of hers to try to stay up late with the older folks. Smart and creative kids are always reluctant to go to bed for fear they may miss something and she is no different. (Taking out the spanking scene would be akin to making Oliver Twist a boy scout.) Give kids some credit for recognizing humor when they hear it. If you don't want children who have a well-rounded sense of humor and an appreciation for literature and illustration, don't buy this book. If you do, buy this book and read it aloud everynight, with feeling. It's pure poetry. Then go get the others: Bread and Jam for Frances, etc. Hoban really makes you remember what it was to be a child and he has created one I am glad to know. My kids love this book and so will my grandchildren.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Book and Kids are Smarter Than You Think!
Comment: I was a HUGE Frances fan as a child and this is my duahgter's first one (from Grandma)---My little girl has NEVER been spanked and she was in no way, shape, size or form upset by the spanking aspect. We are a super liberal, open family and to me that includes realizing that certain things were accepted in the past. My daughter's only reaction to the spaking paragraph was that Father Badger "looked like Daddy" when Frances woke him up.
Children are intelligent enough to get it. Relax a bit, people.
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Title: Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban, Lillian Hoban ISBN: 0064430960 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Best Friends for Frances (Trophy Picture Book) by Russell Hoban ISBN: 0064430081 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 28 April, 1976 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: A Birthday for Frances by Russell Hoban ISBN: 0064430073 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 28 April, 1976 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: A Baby Sister for Frances by Russell Hoban ISBN: 0064430065 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 28 April, 1976 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Bargain for Frances (I Can Read Book 2) by Russell Hoban ISBN: 006444001X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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