This book is very cute. I would especially read this to my children if they had the problem of non stop jumping on the bed but I would also read it to a class at school because it is quite humorous. I think this book has a cute plot as well as cute pictures to go along with it.

Tedd Arnold's No Jumping on the Bed is the story of a little boy named Walter. He is jumping on his bed when the floor cracked and the whole bed and Walter fell through the floor into Miss Hattie's dining room. The story continue's that Walter, Miss Hattie, Mr. Matty, Aunt Batty, Patty, and Natty, Mr. Hanratty, Fatty Cat, seventeen cans of paint, stamps, a TV, phagehetti, and the bed fall all the way through the building. Turns out Walter was only dreaming but above him he hears a break and down falls Delbert.

Great book! Tedd Arnold is a wonderful children's author. I love the exagerations and details of the story. The fact that all of the names rhyme make it kind of fun.

I would like to do a fun activity with this story. I would have the students draw a picture of their house and I'd ask them to draw where someone would land if they fell through. They could be creative and exagerative just like the book.

This story would be appropriate for 2nd grade too. This book would definitely open up the child's imagination.

Arnold's picture book is humorous and exaggerated account of what could happen when children don't listen to mom and dad. Walter jumps on his bed one night and winds up meeting a few of his downstairs neighbors. The illustrations have a caricatured quality and are full of bright colors and silly details. Children will enjoy pattern and repetition in events and text, as well as a slightly twisty ending! This is a great book for middle to upper elementary aged children, and I would recommend it for any school or public library children's collection. ( )

Walter's parent's told him to stop jumping on his bed until he jumped to high and fell and soon his neighbors were falling with him.
The illustrations are great and are very detailed.
I think that was a good book and would be fun to read with the class, plus there is a lesson to it. ( )