Sleepy Time Olie
by William Joyce
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Author: William JoyceIllustrator: William Joyce
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-10-02
ISBN: 0060296135
Number of pages: 40
Publisher: HarperCollins
Summary of Sleepy Time Olie
Rolie Polie evening--
Olie's almost sleeping.
His Rolie days
are without care,
especially when
Pappy's there.
But where is Pappy?
Where oh,
oh where?
Parents can be forgiven for wondering what it is that appeals about William Joyce's Ping-Pong-headed space hero, Rolie Polie Olie. But read about him and his family to any child under five, and there's no doubting that the attraction of the Rolie Polie Planet is powerful. In this rhyming bedtime adventure, Olie waits for a goodnight story from Pappy (grandpa), but Pappy turns up late and befuddled after a nasty bonk on the head. Olie saves the day by creating a sort of funny ray. (The adult but not the child will be irritated at the inconsistencies here: in one illustration Olie is filling a bucket with tricks and treats, and in the next this has inexplicably become a bubble-gun; equally inexplicably, it's described as a ray-gun.) "Then Olie burst into the room / and with his ray dispelled the gloom. 'I made a Pappy pick-me-up / to help old Pappy ungrow up.'" Shakespeare it isn't, but small kids are better than we are at empathizing with characters whose very souls seem to be made from Ping-Pong balls too. They love it! (Ages 3 to 5) --Richard Farr
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