Do any of them move before they get up to join the pig pile on the bed?
Did you also notice that, except for the very first picture, everybody's there already in the room, long before the text takes notice of them. We start with a sleepy blue and change to a vibrant yellow as the afternoon rain changes to sunshine and a rainbow appears. Of course you noticed the changing colors as the house woke up. Are there more? And what if it wasn't a napping house, but a laughing house? You'd have chucklers and grinners and? Take one sentence from the book and change one word at a time, making sure each new sentence still makes sense: "There is a house, a napping house, where everybody's sleeping" becomes "Here is a house, a napping house, where everybody's sleeping", "Here was a house, etc.", until perhaps, "Here was a home, a laughing home, which has nobody crying". Look at all the synonyms that you have for sleeping.Children with very limited attention spans also enjoy the complete restating of all the preceding action on each page. The repeated phrases make Napping House ideal for beginning readers. Each page repeats the action from bottom up. Gradually, the pile increases with a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, a slumbering mouse and finally a wakeful flea who, by biting the mouse, sets off a chain of events which results in a broken pile and even a broken bed. It's a rainy afternoon and Granny is snoring on the bed in a cozy room. This delightful cumulative tale has been a favorite with readers and listeners since its debut.
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