The Bed Book
by Sylvia Plath 
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Describes various beds that are much more interesting than beds for sleeping, such as a jet-propelled bed, snack bed, pocket-size bed, and bounceable bed.Tags
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This delightful little book contains a bedtime poem that author Sylvia Plath wrote for her children. This isn't the acerbic wit of Plath in The Bell Jar but a sweet tale perfect for sharing with the little ones in your live. The fantastical plot, if you would, takes the children away from their dull everyday beds to imagining all the kinds of beds there could be. For example, there's an elephant bed where you can pick the bananas from trees as you pass by, a pocket-size bed to carry with you so you never miss out on a sleepover because there isn't a bed for you, and a snack bed allowing you to eat in bed without ever getting up or needing money for the vending machine. The whimsical story is accompanied by equally whimsical show more illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. show less
This book is a long, long poem about different beds. Beds of every sort are imagined- beds that spurt snacks, go exciting places, or bounce you into outer space. Any of these, it claims would be better than a traditional bed. I admit that I was hoping she would draw the connection to imagining all these things in a regular bed, but children will go for the fantastical aspects of it.
This is an absolutely fabulous book. I don't know why it hasn't been republished in hard back. Our copy is in tatters from being read so often.
captioned cartoons about beds
Original catálogo de camas que no entienden de reglas, y sobre las que uno puede surcar mares o alcanzar el espacio exterior. Camas que sirven de escenario a trapecistas y que pueden ensuciarse sin temor a reprimendas.
Jan 30, 2015Spanish
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Sylvia Plath's best poetry was produced, tragically, as she pondered self-destruction---in her poems as well as her life---and she eventually committed suicide. She had an extraordinary impact on British as well as American poetry in the few years before her death, and affected many poets, particularly women, in the generation after. She is a show more confessional poet, influenced by the approach of Robert Lowell. Born in Boston, a graduate of Smith College, Plath attended Newnham College, Cambridge University, on a Fulbright Fellowship and married the British poet Ted Hughes. Of her first collection,The Colossus and Other Poems (1962), the Times Literary Supplement remarked, "Plath writes from phrase to phrase as well as with an eye on the larger architecture of the poem; each line, each sentence is put together with a good deal of care for the springy rhythm, the arresting image and---most of all, perhaps---the unusual word." Plath's second book of poetry, Ariel, written in 1962 in a last fever of passionate creative activity, was published posthumously in 1965 and explores dimensions of women's anger and sexuality in groundbreaking new ways. Plath's struggles with women's issues, in the days before the second wave of American feminism, became legendary in the 1970s, when a new generation of women readers and writers turned to her life as well as her work to understand the contradictory pressures of ambitious and talented women in the 1950s. The Bell Jar---first published under a pseudonym in 1963 and later issued under Plath's own name in England in 1966---is an autobiographical novel describing an ambitious young woman's efforts to become a "real New York writer" only to sink into mental illness and despair at her inability to operate within the narrow confines of traditional feminine expectations. Plath was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1982. In recent years, there have been a number of biographies and critical evaluations of Plath's work. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Insel-Bücherei (Nr. 1424)
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- Canonical title
- The Bed Book
- Original publication date
- 1976
- First words
- Beds come in all sizes - single or double, cot-size or cradle, King-size or trundle.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Not just a white little, tucked-in-tight little, nighty-night little, turn-out-the-light little bed!
- Original language
- English
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- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 23
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