Good idea, but a parent might want to look at it before the child.

Liked the story but thought the illustrations were a bit odd. Very "Flapjack."

God DAMN, Jenny Offill - will you ever stop writing books that I like, each more than the last??This is the coolest. You never want to take a nap and we know YOU know that nothing particular is going to happen while you're down, but you still protest. So here's an outlandish story about what totally happened while you were sleeping.

Outrageously teasing tall-tale!

Good idea, but a parent might want to look at it before the child.

While this is a very entertaining tale with wonderful artwork, I don't know that I would read this to a child who is nap-averse.Spoiler, in the end, it's just an older sister being a bit mean. hah!

This book tried too hard to emulate the "big sister, little brother" stereotype, and came across as a negative relationship. The language was playful, creative, and fun to read, but the illustrations and the story itself were unsettling. An older sister tells her younger brother about everything that happened while he was napping. The younger brother was young enough to still have a daily nap time, while the older sister was not, and she made up lies to make her brother jealous of her getting to...

Wow, strong dislike for the storyline - sister lies to brother about all that goes on while he is forced to nap. Strong dislike for the illustrations - they give me the creeps.Definitely a miss for the team of Jenny Offill & Barry Blitt (illustrator).

An older sister tells her brother all the amazing things that the neighborhood kids did while he was taking a nap including a party, bulldozing the neighborhood, setting off fireworks, and pirates showing up as well as astronauts.The illustrations are done in an exaggerated and cartoon style. The bodies are out of proportion and wavy taking away from the appeal. The story also does not end in a way that makes you think the sister made this all up as a story for her brother. Instead it comes off

Ahhh...the things we miss out on when we take a nap. Wonderful story, but be sure to take your time on the delightful illustrations.

While You Were Napping tells a story of a little boy whose mother is making him take a nap. The story is told in first person by the little boys sister. While he was napping, all the kids in the neighborhood were outside playing together. They got to play with the construction workers and their bulldozers. Robots, firemen and pirates also came to play. The illustrations in the book go well with the story. One problem I found with this book is most kids already have trouble taking a nap. This sto...

This story is about a boy and his sister. She tries to tell him to go take a nap because nothing interesting will happen. This idea then shifts. Shen the begins to tell him all the fun things the neighbors and her did while he is sleeping during his nap. They threw a party had had pirates, robots, firefighters, and etc. But, this all happened while the boy was asleep.The illustrations contained cartoon children with oddly proportion in size. The pages were filled with pictures but had a good amo...

What happens while you nap? For the little boy that was napping in this story, he missed on quite the adventure. This is the story of a little boy who ended up missing a great adventure that his mean, older sister took. Why? Simple: because he was napping. This novel is full of hysterical adventures, such as dealing with pirates or going to outerspace. Both of the characters in this book were pretty static because they did not change throughout the book and stayed as the mean older sister and th...

The expertly rendered ink and watercolor illustrations, and the teasing tone of the sister's While You Were Napping tales, make a perfect match. Children with refined visual literacy skills will notice all of the adventures big sister relays to her napping little brother are concocted from the toys in his bedroom. The naughty antics the children perform in her stories include babies setting off firecrackers too close to Dad's lawn chair, resulting in an exciting visit from the fire company. Writ...

In WHILE YOU WERE NAPPING a boy's worst fears are confirmed when he wakes to discover that, while he was napping, the rest of the neighborhood kids were off on grand adventures. Dinosaur bones have been discovered, fireworks set off, pirates have invaded and nearly made everyone walk the plank (but settled for handing out peg-leg party favors), astronauts took everyone on a trip into space to try out zero-gravity, and more! While it may be best to avoid this one before the naptime (for fear of i...

Stream-of-consciousness (dreamlike?) account of activities that is fun for all its ridiculousness. It doesn't seem that the bragging sister is modeling the bragging so much as letting us listen in on all the reckless things the children packed into nap time...The construction workers were the first to come.They were bored with building, they said,and so they asked all of us kidsto take over their bulldozers for them. Or...After lunch, it was time for the fireworks.There were barrels and barrels

The story begins in the recent past, as a big sister "consoles" her younger brother, who was forced to take a nap by their mother (despite his actively tearful, then sulky protest - clearly depicted in the illustrations). She tells him he may have been justified in his protest, because in spite of Mom's assurance that "You won't miss a thing, I promise," every other kid in the neighborhood bore witness to a great many wonders that afternoon ("even the littlest babies," she later elaborates). It

In this story, a little boy has to take a nap. While he takes his nap, all of the kids in the neighborhood get to do all kinds of crazy stuff like driving fire trucks. The little boy's older sister takes the initiative to let her brother know what went on while he was taking his nap. She tells hims that there was all kinds of robots and some astronauts showed up. She brags to him that she was there for the whole thing. It is a typical older sibling thing that the author demonstrates for their au...

Read this book if you want to understand why children become so upset about being put to bed. After all, you never know what you might miss. In this tall tale reeled out by the sleeping child's sibling, he missed quite a lot, including bulldozers, robots, and pirates. There's even a visit from astronauts and a fire. My favorite illustration has to be the one with the children all wearing peg legs, party favors provided by the pirates. The pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations show a very unha...

I had high hopes for this one, based on a split-second judgment of the cover. Usually I'm not so far off with judging a book by its cover. The color scheme (very trendy, yet soothing) and the word "Napping" are the only gentle things in this book. It's basically an older sister telling outrageous lies (not bad if you're a fan of Tall Tales) to her little brother who is young enough to be forced into napping. It's condescending and belittling and mean.Daughter and I both decided that it's definit...