This is a really great book to help with children who have a hard time with going to bed because of fears of the dark. However, in my opinion, it is not so great for children who don't have any issues with the dark because I have honestly experienced children using "scary noises" as an excuse after being read this book. (not the fault of the author of course) but overall I think this is yet another lovely chapter in the life of precocious Frances. ( )

1.Francesは色々気になって眠りにつくことができません。
お父さんに「カーテンがゆれるのは風の仕事」と言われ、「窓をたたくことは蛾の仕事、私の仕事は眠ること」と言いながらようやく寝ることができました。
両親に大切に育てられている様子がよくわかります。

2.His job is bumping and thumping,and my job is to sleep.

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This is a cute book to share with a young class. It deals with scary noises at bedtime. This book is about a little girl who was told to go to bed but she gets scared. Frances tires to sleep but scary noises keep her awake. She runs to tell her mom and dad about all the scary things and they assure her all is fine. After a while Frances finally falls to sleep.
http://www.ocelotfactory.com/hoban/ this is a good website for Hoban. It gives information about him and his other novels as well as reviews.

I don't know. The moral of the story here seems to be "if you don't do what your parents tell you, regardless of your feelings, you will be spanked". I'm not sure that's the best thing to end a story around. I was liking it until it took that turn, though. One line is a favorite of mine, that describes how quiet the girl is as she stands quietly by her dad's bed, and goes:
"She was so quiet that she was the quietest thing in the room". I thought "boy, that's pretty quiet". It is a cute story, and addresses a big fear of kids (what goes bump in the night, and not getting to sleep) but you have to decide how you feel about the spanking issue!

Frances is so adorable - I want to reach through the pages and stroke her sweet head! In this one you also get to see her father's sweet grumpiness shine through. I remember when I was a child that bedtime could be very terrifying. I was so afraid of sleeping alone, but I forget why, really. But anyway, bedtime was a source of great anxiety for me, so I probably identified with Frances a lot when I read this as a child. As an adult, it's a fairly rote 'are there monsters under the bed?' story, but it's elevated by the illustrations which convey a good sense of a child's smallness and hesitancy when confronting her fears. ( )