In this unusual picture book, designed to resemble the seven-story apartment building in which it is set, a little girl's sleep is disrupted by her very rowdy neighbors. To her consternation, and to the reader's delight, those neighbors turn out to be characters from six well-known stories - including Jack of beanstalk fame, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Cinderella. And the seventh? It turns out to be the heroine herself, who has a pea under her mattress.
We read this to our begindergarten class and by the time we had finished the book, the teacher and 2 aides were laughing so hard we cried. It actually took us 30 minutes to get through the book. The kids got so excited listening to it that they had to guess from one page to the next who was going to appear and what was going to happen before we got to it. By the time we got to the 7th story, we had at least 12 fairy tales mentioned by the students and the characters were in the wrong fairy tales! We found out we had to do a weeks lesson plan on fairy tales, after that, to straighten those stories out. The book is absolutely wonderful. In fact I had to order a couple for other teachers to use in the rooms. This is highly recommended for young children ages 3-6.
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