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Bedtime Is Canceled (2012)

by Cece Meng(Favorite Author)
3.54 of 5 Votes: 1
ISBN
0547636687 (ISBN13: 9780547636689)
languge
English
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publisher
Clarion Books
review 1: Society is brought to it's exhausted knees when a bulletin cancelling bedtime, written by two young children, ends up being printed by a newspaper. Word is further spread through emails, social media, and word-of-mouth. Somewhat of a chicken little for the modern age, but with a lighter touch. I laughed several times at the clever story line and illustrations. Great book for kids who like to laugh at adults and adults who can laugh at themselves.
review 2: The story is a fun exploration of a what-if? idea. I kept checking the front matter because these illustrations have the feel of having been a cartoon or an animation...a little like the 2D Rankin-Bass animations from my childhood. I wonder if an elementary school classroom would want to read this and di
... morescuss the media and the reliability of the transmission of information? One thing I did appreciate was the wide range of media portrayed in the text and illustrations--from handwritten-with-crayon notices to print newspapers to tincan phones to TV news to texting w/phones and reading on tablets. (The TVs and computer monitors are flatscreens, too.) less
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Rocky
really fun. Saw it on Kate's updates and had to read it. will read it again. don't need to own it.
srs
It's funny, comes full circle and the illustrations are wonderful. My son and I love it!
Caykline
Cute book
charles
Loved it.
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