50 below zero : Read-Aloud Edition

Jason's dad tends to walk in his sleep and ends up in the most unlikely places. On one especially cold night it falls to Jason to find his father and keep him safe. School Library Journal PreS-Gr 2 Jason is awakened by the sounds of his father's sleepwalking and finds him asleep on top of the refrigerator. After returning him to bed, he is later awakened to find father asleep in the bathtub and later on top of the car in the garage. The fourth time it is footprints in the snow that lead him to a stiff father who must be thawed in the bathtub. He then ties one end of a piece of rope to his father's toe and another to his bed to limit the walks. It is his mother who is awakened in the final picture to find Jason asleep on top of the refrigerator and father asleep midstep with a toe tied to a piece of rope. What starts off as a humorous idea is run into the ground with repetition in the text so that even the humor of the final picture is lost in the stupidity of the story. The humorous illustrations are large and colorful with a page of text facing each one, but the story rates a zero. Nancy A. Gifford, Schenectady County Public Library, N.Y. Jasons dad falls asleep everywhere except in his own bed. All night long, Jason gets woken up by strange noises that lead him to find his dad in the most unexpected placesfrom on top of the refrigerator to the freezing cold woods outside his house. In order to finally get a good nights sleep, Jason musters up all of his resources and comes up with a most unexpected solutiontying his dads toe to the bathroom doorknob to keep him in place. The story of Jason and his sleep-walking father, following their adventures as Jason says "This house is going craaazy"!! Jason must find a way to stop his father from sleepwalking then snoozing in the most unusual places Jason must find a way to keep his father from sleeping and snoozing in the most unusual places In the middle of the night, Jason was asleep: zzzzz-zzzzz-zzzzz-zzzzzz-zzzzz. A collection of children's books on the subject of winter