A Good Trade by Alma Fullerton & Karen Patkau
I Dare You Not to Yawn by Hélène Boudreau (moi!) & Serge Bloch
If You Hold a Seed by Elly MacKay
In the Tree House by Andrew Larsen & Dusan Petricic
Mr. Zinger’s Hat by Cary Fagan & Dusan Petricic
Oddrey by Dave Whamond
Sky Color by Peter H. Reynolds
This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
Uncle Wally’s Old Brown Shoe by Wallace Edwards
Willow Finds a Way by Lana Button & Tania Howells
YAY! Thanks to the Ontario Library Association’s 2014 Blue Spruce Committee for including I Dare You Not to Yawn on such an esteemed list! I can’t wait to read all these WONDERFUL looking books.
Teachers and librarians! Would you like me to visit your school or library as part of your Forest of Reading program? Check out my page at Authors’ Booking Service for rates and availability.
Quick! Close your mouth!
Especially if your eyes feel droopy, your shoulders feel sloopy, and your mouth feels like it wants to stretch open wide to let out a great big yawny yaaaaaawn — hey, you were supposed hold it in! Oh, dear. You know what happens next, don’t you?
(You were warned. You can’t say you weren’t warned!)
A hilarious—and infectious—cautionary fable that is so much fun, readers will beg for it again and again, whatever the consequences!
Praise for I Dare You Not to Yawn:
Publisher’s Weekly: “Boudreau… dispenses mock advice for children who want to avoid bedtime with a sly dose of comedy.”
Kirkus: “Just the ticket for nap-time or bedtime sharing.”
SLJ: “a fun selection”
Booklist: “Boudreau and Bloch work seamlessly here to deliver the funny…”
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I DARE YOU NOT TO YAWN. Text copyright © 2013 by Hélène Boudreau. Illustrations copyright © 2013 by Serge Bloch. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.
