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Bedtime For Frances (Paperback)

by Hoban (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
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It's bedtime for young Frances--an adorable and irrepressible little badger--and everyone is ready but her. At 7:00 p.m. Frances is wide awake and bursting with youthful excitement. She tries every delay tactic she can muster--from demanding extra hugs and kisses to volleying a series of urgent last-minute questions ("May I sleep with my teddy bear?" "May I have my door open?"). She's almost positive there are spiders, giants, and tigers in her room.

Any parent will quickly identify with this phenomenon--how the last minutes of the day suddenly become the most action-packed. Garth Williams's illustrations complement Russell Hoban's sweet story perfectly, capturing the endless energy and overactive imagination of Frances, and the waning patience of her exhausted parents. Bedtime for Frances is the perfect goodnight story to tell your wide-eyed children. And never fear, like Frances, they too will eventually, contentedly, drift off to sleep. (Ages 4 to 8)



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Famed for her many adventures, Frances made her debut with this title over thirty years ago. In this first Frances book, the little badger adroitly delays her bedtime with requests for kisses and milk, and concerns over tigers and giants and things going bump in the night. Long a favorite for the gentle humor of its familiar going to bed ritual, Bedtime for Frances is at last available with the warmth of full color enriching Garth Williams’s original nuanced and touching art. ‘Here is the coziest, most beguiling bedtime story in many a day.’—Kirkus Reviews (pointer).

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5.0 out of 5 stars A spanking good book, Jul 14 2004
By A Customer
Okay, the title of this review is a joke. The threat of spanking, mentioned by 13 (if I counted correctly) of 31 customer reviews, is offset for the following reasons. 1) The book is a classic--a great old book that has become a multi-generational tradition in many families, including many (like mine) that do not spank their kids. 2) Children live in the real world, and excessive sheltering from it is counterproductive. 3) There are very few books that deal with nighttime fears as effectively as this one (*Where the Wild Things Are* is another). 4) It is aimed at a younger audience than the other Frances books making it a good introduction to the series. 5) Like all the Frances books, it is well written, well illustrated, and quite amusing. Note--Garth Williams illustrated this one; the others were illustrated by Lillian Hoban. 6. It has wonderfully delightful examples of a very young child's (il)logic, for example, "There is a giant in my room, may I watch television?" (or something like that--I don't have the book in front of me).

I am highly amused that, for all the reviews that complain about the spanking threat, NONE of the to date complain about the smoking by Frances' father. I'm sure that MUST say something strange about Amazon's customer reviewers, but I can't figure out what!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book and Kids are Smarter Than You Think!, Jun 7 2004
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars getting quite a bad rap without much cause., Mar 11 2004
By E. Martin (USA) - See all my reviews
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I'm quite suprised so many people take issue with this book. It was one that I loved as a child, and although I had the sort of fears that children often do, my parents were always really good about reminding me that the things in your room when the lights are off are the same things there when the lights are are on. Perhaps that's the reason this book never inspired the terror in me it seems to present to many reviewers' children.

As for the spanking issue -- I was hardly from an abusive home, but the issue of punishment was something I was always familiar with. I hardly think the book is suggesting that Frances is going to be physically abused by her parents, so much as it's showing fed-up adults convincing their child to just get some sleep.

This book might not be for the terribly young, but it's a pretty cute story about conniving for extra time before bed. I would recommend it to anyone who is up front with their children about things like 'spankings', even if they don't practice them.

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5.0 out of 5 stars the spanking controversy
Like all the Frances books, this one is entertaining, and the Frances character is an excellent role model for girls; she is strong willed, creative, and challenges authority at... Read more
Published on Feb 24 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars good book
Do you ever want to stay up late? Find out what happens in Frances' Bedtime. Frances keeps asking her mom and dad for something like a glass of milk so she can stay up past her... Read more
Published on Jan 26 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars Not thrilled
I was hoping for a story that would help to paint a lovley picture of bedtime from a child's stand point. Read more
Published on Nov 15 2003 by psalm150

1.0 out of 5 stars Outdated pro-spanking theme
I remembered the Frances books from my childhood and regret that I bought this one in the series for my 4 year old without reading it again first. Read more
Published on April 14 2003

1.0 out of 5 stars Not enjoyable for us
My daughter didn't enjoy this book and neither did I. I'm glad I recently read the reviews here because I would never have thought to read another book by this author. Read more
Published on Jan 15 2003

1.0 out of 5 stars Threat of spanking forces Frances to sleep...
I too remember Bedtime for Frances as a child (I'm in my 30's) but was shocked when I read it recently. Wish I never bought it! Read more
Published on Nov 4 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Bedtime Story!!
Frances is a wonderful story for young children. My mom used to read it to me as a child, and I can remember it helping me fall to sleep. Read more
Published on Oct 15 2002 by sas23151

1.0 out of 5 stars I read lots of not "politically correct" stories to my kids
I read *lots* of not "politically correct" books to my child but not this one, b/c of the "spanking issue". Read more
Published on Mar 22 2002 by Lady

3.0 out of 5 stars A Mom
Cute, but it absolutely TERRIFIED my 4 year old. I couldn't even finish reading it; he made me stop. Read more
Published on Mar 2 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars Bedtime for Frances, a great book!
This book is excellent in many ways and, to be specific and fair to this classic, I will list some of the reasons:
1)It is very easy to read. Read more
Published on Jan 14 2002 by imsimonetti

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