Bedtime for Frances

by Russell Hoban (Author) Garth Williams (Illustrator)

Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Series: Frances
It may be bedtime for Frances, but that does not mean Frances is ready to go to bed - not by a long shot. First she must have a glass of milk and make certain Mother and Father have each kissed her good night (twice). Then she is ready to imagine there is a tiger in her room, and a giant, and...each time Frances thinks up something new, off she goes to tell her ever-patient, if increasingly weary, parents.
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Starred Review

Frances the Badger's first appearance contains just one of her later famous "hums" but gives the reader the full measure of her endearing personality and of her parents' patience and ingenuity. Williams's original illustrations, now in full color, accompany Frances's battle to put off bedtime — a universal of childhood.

Review quotes

"An enchanting picture book with winsome illustrations and a text in which there is humor and a real sympathy for the maneuvering of the reluctantly retiring young."
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"Anyone who has ever put a little one to bed will find this delightfully familiar, and the children themselves will enjoy the gentle humor and coziness of the story."
— School Library Journal

"Here is the coziest, most beguiling bedtime story in many a day."
— The Kirkus Reviews

Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780064434515
Lexile Measure
360
Guided Reading Level
I
Publisher
HarperFestival
Publication date
September 19, 1995
Series
Frances
BISAC categories
JUV010000 - Juvenile Fiction | Bedtime & Dreams
JUV013000 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | General
Library of Congress categories
Bedtime
Badgers
Fear of the dark
Frances (Fictitious character: Hoban)

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