365 Bedtime Stories (Gift Books)

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Jonathan wrapped his warm scarf tightly round him and looked out at the sea. He did this every day. Even in winter. He loved to watch the ships sailing by. Hey! You! Baffled, Jonathan peered into the water. Who should be swimming there but a little mermaid! During the night there had been a heavy snowfall. Before Oliver’s mum could drive him to playschool, she first needed to shovel the snow away from her car. Oliver gave her a hand. With the broom, he swept the bumpers clear. They’d soon got rid of the snow. Mum turned the key in the ignition, but the car didn’t start. Mum sighed and tried again. But nothing happened. How am I going to get to playschool? asked Oliver sadly. I’ve got an idea, said Mum. She climbed out of the car to bring the sledge out of the garage. On you climb, young man! she said cheerfully. Today, Mum’s taxi is a sledge. S.St. 12 January Looking for winter supplies While many books have an individual story for each day, in this book the stories are all somehow linked to the families on Trufflescootums Boulevard (aka "What A Jolly Street"), which is a cul-de-sac across from a school, with a little grocery on the corner, up against a sizable creek, with farmland and an orchard right near. Some of the stories, while complete, have a "to be continued" feel that spreads over a few days or an even longer time (one "mystery" lasts months), which gives the book as a whole surprising depth, IMHO. This is a time when spaghetti is an exotic food and all the moms are homemakers and it's very much another era, yet many of the lessons and activities shown are timeless. Read along as Woody and the gang go on a campout, Cinderella tells her mouse friends a bedtime story, Pooh and Piglet have a best-friend sleepover, Pongo puts his puppies to bed, and more. With 365 stories, bedtime has never been so much fun! If you think that elves only dance on warm summer nights, you don’t know everything there is to know about them. You see, elves also love the winter. When it’s bitterly cold and icy outside, and the frost is pinching everyone’s nose, the elves celebrate their winter festival. In an endless round, the snow crystals drift down from the sky and land on the ground with a gentle, silver sound. Only elves have ears sharp enough to hear the music of the snow. When the snowflakes begin to dance, the elves too begin to dance. What they like doing best is to hover over the freshly fallen snow on which there is not yet a single human footprint. Very gently, the hems of their clothes graze the brilliant white snow and leave behind light traces, as if the wind had breathed upon the covering of snow. From the roofs there hang icicles, all in a row like the chimes of a xylophone. The elves play music on them – plinkety plonkety! And if you don’t believe this, then break off an icicle and take a close look. You’ll see everything that happened last night, caught inside it as if on a film. I.A. 5 January Visit to Mother Hulda

I have decided to challenge myself to read this one story at a time this year. While this may not sound terribly hard, for me it is. Really, I would just read all 365 stories and be done with it. So instead I decided to read it as it was intended (plus it's kinda nice to feel like I am reading myself a bedtime story). Melissa was sitting on the sofa reading a book. For some reason, the sofa felt a bit uncomfortable today. All lumpy-bumpy. Melissa lifted up the cover and saw five little shaggy green monsters crouching underneath. Who are you? she asked in amazement. But the monsters just laughed in her face. Just you wait! said Melissa. She got out the vacuum cleaner and tried to vacuum the monsters up. But they simply fastened their claws into the cushion and grinned at Melissa. Okay! Fine! said Melissa. If that’s the way you want it … Then she called on the secret anti-monster weapon which fills all monsters with fear and dread. Melissa roared as loud as she could, Muummmyyy! Suddenly, the little monsters evaporated into thin air. The cowards were scared of grown-ups! Feeling pleased with herself, Melissa opened her book again. At last she could look at the pictures without being disturbed. S.H. 3 January The birthday dwarf Fuzzy the squirrel was hopping through the park, digging holes in the snow. After a while, she squatted sadly on the branch of a tree and sighed, Oh dear, I’m never going to find them. Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-06-04 20:40:29 Boxid IA1914415 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II Curatenote shipped DonorWhich did not bother my child-self at all (I just assumed the artist wasn't accurate), while my adult self sees the location as so idyllic and unreal I can still see it as such a mixed-race neighborhood despite the 1950s midwest setting. Heh. I have three girls. The two older girls (13 & 9) love to read to their new born baby sister. My baby gets exposed to new words and word patterns. My nine year old gets to read to someone who won't judge her if she doesn't know one of the words. My 13 year old gets to practice reading to an audience and she secretly loves pretending she is a teacher. Not to mention the bonding time my children get. This is the absolute bestest daily bedtime stories book! My great-aunt gave us a copy with the original 1955 illustrations when I was little, but we lost it in a move, and I looked and looked and looked for something half as good, but found nothing that remotely compared except Bible story books, which are not quite the same thing. The evidence suggests that these stories were written between the First and Second World Wars (most likely the 1930s), possibly for serialization, and were updated for this collection published in 1955. In November, there are two stories for Veteran's Day, one of which is clearly an Armistice Day story with a couple lines added for Veteran's Day. This is the only reference to WWII in the entire book, and elsewhere WWI is called "The World War".

As a child of the 1960s who owned this book I do have to say that it's a decidedly satisfying nostalgia read. The stories are exactly what you would expect from Disney stories. Some are funny, some are sweet, and some and a little quirky.

According to one of the "Tommy Tumbleweed" stories, Canada has no zoos. The oldest zoo in Canada was established in 1918. I'll be charitable and say the author was working from outdated references. urn:lcp:365bedtimestorie00gilb:epub:2eecc6bf-2c1d-479e-9a89-e471c2aeb0d5 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier 365bedtimestorie00gilb Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6sx74j2b Lccn 55039147 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary_edition Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971. Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200356 Openlibrary_edition urn:lcp:disney365bedtime0000unse:epub:8ca22306-29ad-4fc4-8658-8bfacf62ce23 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier disney365bedtime0000unse Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s20xmfdvhbb Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781423199557