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Good Night, Alfie Atkins Very Tricky, Alfie Atkins
By Bergström, Gunilla & Bergstrom, Gunilla
- ISBN
- 978-9-12966-154-5 978-9-12966-152-1
- Publisher
- R&S Farrar R&S Farrar
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2005
PreS-Gr 2 Four-year-old Alfie Atkins does not want to go to sleep. His father assists him in a variety of bedtime rituals, but still the child asks for more. When he calls for his teddy, Daddy does not come, so Alfie goes looking for him and finds his exhausted parent asleep on the floor. He tucks ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2005
"Here is Alfie Atkins, four years old. He is sometimes cranky, and sometimes nice." First published (in Sweden) in 1972, these welcome imports attest that preschoolers are much the same, whatever the decade. Alfie's father, on the other hand, seems progressive for his day, especially when putting his son to bed—or trying to, at any rate. In Good Night, Alfie Atkins, the ever-smiling, pipe-smoking cartoon dad patiently indulges his wide-awake son's stall tactics. He reads ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
