Tired Town
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- ¥1,300
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- ¥1,300
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Goodnight Moon meets Goodnight Already! in this very funny bedtime book from New Yorker contributors Patricia Marx and Roz Chast.
This is the story of Nellie Bee Nightly, who is not tired at all. And swears she never will be!
The popcorn is too pooped to pop, and the nightstand is too tired to stand up straight and must lie down — but Nellie? Nope, she's wide awake, and not ready for bedtime AT ALL. Instead, she gives her goldfish a mustache and hangs her bed from the ceiling so that she can install a swimming pool in her room. Nellie, after all, went to sleep last night, and shouldn’t that be enough sleep to last a lifetime?
Wonderfully quirky, subversively sweet, and effortlessly classic, Tired Town is a brilliant new bedtime story from humorist Patricia Marx and Roz Chast, the #1 New York Times-bestselling and award-winning creator of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir and I Must Be Dreaming.
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As the sun sets on Manhattan-esque Tired Town, this antic picture book's collaborators (Now Everybody Really Hates Me) portray the city's thoroughly exhausted residents: "The spaghetti is so drained, it can't stand up straight. The eggs are so fried, they can't keep their yolks open," Marx writes. But sleep is a no-go for pale-skinned Nellie Bee Nightly, who sports wide-open eyes and a bright cloud of red hair. "I went to sleep LAST night," she tells her pleading parents, and then devises a long list of pre-bed to-do's. In Chast's comically anxious watercolors, which fairly vibrate with activity, the child persuades doll Naked Nancy to don pj's, gives goldfish Cheesy a makeover, and creates a walkway from her bed to the bathroom. As the child finally lies down ("I'm not sleeping... I'm pretending to be a log"), the bedroom lamp calls a halt to the goings-on, turning itself off with a "KLIK" as Nellie, at last, drifts off. The recalcitrant sleeper is a mainstay of picture books, but this silly soporific by two of contemporary humor's best brings real verve to the event. Ages 3–6. Author's agent: Esther Newberg, ICM Partners. Illustrator's agent: Jin Auh, Wylie Agency.
