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“The Napping House” by Audrey Wood is a story of one bed and several characters on top. It starts on a rainy day with a Granny sleeping on a cozy bed in the napping house. A child climbs on top and as the story progressed, the pile on that bed was massive with so many characters and their creative way of waking each other up. The child, cat, dog, mouse and flea were all on top of granny. The flea bit the mouse and the pile broke as a result of a chain reaction, and ultimately lead to a broken bed and no one sleeping. The scared cat clawed the dog, the dog thumps the child, and the child bumps the granny, who breaks the bed. This story promotes child development by building up the plot for the reader until the limit was reached, at the Pre-K level and higher by showing simple examples of patterns and the repetition of phrases. …show more content…
Every character was connected to the next and the comfort they shared spread to the next. The language development was simple with words such as “sleeping”, “cozy”, and “dreaming”, and the repetition of phrases made it easier to follow along from young children. The texts was shown alongside with the picture to give an image to associate it to the story as it progresses. If the reader can not read all of the texts, the picture can help boost their critical thinking by continuing the story as the pictures providing visual representatives of the words on the pages. The story adds more words, nouns and adjectives, which aid in cognitive development because the reader is learning the vocabulary by the established pattern of similar phrase structure and words related to bedtime, such as “the snoozing cat”, “dozing dog”, “dreaming child”, “snoring granny”, and “cozy bed”. The diction sets the mood of the happiness associated with

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