{"id":387,"date":"2009-02-07T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T02:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/07\/review-of-in-a-blue-room-by-jim-averbeck\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T00:01:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T04:01:44","slug":"review-of-in-a-blue-room-by-jim-averbeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Review of In a Blue Room, by Jim Averbeck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a Blue Room<\/em><\/p>\n

by Jim Averbeck<\/p>\n

illustrated by Tricia Tusa<\/p>\n

Harcourt, Orlando, 2008.\u00a0 32 pages.<\/p>\n

Here’s a sweet bedtime storybook.<\/p>\n

In a blue room,<\/em><\/p>\n

Alice bounces,<\/em><\/p>\n

wide-awake past bedtime.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Time for bed,” Mama says,<\/em><\/p>\n

“and I’ve brought flowers for your room.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“I can only sleep in a blue room,” says Alice.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Blue is my favorite.<\/em><\/p>\n

And those — <\/em><\/p>\n

aren’t —<\/em><\/p>\n

blue.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Ah. . . but smell,” Mama says.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mama keeps bringing more lovely things that aren’t blue, but are wonderfully soothing.\u00a0 Alice keeps protesting, but getting sleepier.<\/p>\n

The lovely part is that, when the light goes out and night falls, sure enough, everything in the room is blue.<\/p>\n

The story is told in lyrical, soothing language, just right for bedtime.\u00a0 Good night!<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n

www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/in_a_blue_room.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a Blue Room by Jim Averbeck illustrated by Tricia Tusa Harcourt, Orlando, 2008.\u00a0 32 pages. Here’s a sweet bedtime storybook. In a blue room, Alice bounces, wide-awake past bedtime. “Time for bed,” Mama says, “and I’ve brought flowers for your room.” “I can only sleep in a blue room,” says Alice. “Blue is my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedtime-stories","category-contemporary","category-picture-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}