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“Little Big Nate: No Nap” is a cute story for a toddler or preschooler. Little Big Nate doesn’t like to nap and would rather being playing all day however, at the end he realizes that napping is fun too. The rhyming and illustrations were cute as well. I do wish it was a little longer as it was a fun story.

Thank you NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for my digital copy in return for my honest review.

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This short story is great for beginning readers or to share with toddlers. Nate does not like naps, and as he thinks of all the other things he'd rather be doing instead (which are written in an easily flowing rhyme) he falls asleep anyway. The pictures are very child friendly and accessible. A cute bedtime story or one that beginning readers can read with confidence.

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This is a cute but short book about taking naps. I love that the pages rhyme. I think that younger children would enjoy this as a before nap read. My older son loves Big Nate, and I love that it is the same character appealing to a younger audience. The illustrations in the book are wonderful.

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Review to come to my blog on August 11th and Goodreads on August 17th-ish.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

The second Little Big Nate picture book and of course I had to get it when I saw it on Netgalley. The previous one was plenty of fun. I love that they are doing picture books of this character now.

In this one Nate doesn't want to take a nap! I can so understand him. I am a big girl so no compulsory naps for me, but my body is at times a bit weak and I do need a nap. I know how it feels when you have so much to do, so much you still want to do. You don't want to go to sleep. You just want to keep playing, working, etc.
In this book we see that everyone is going to sleep, but Nate is just thinking of all the things he wants to do (Nate, I fully agree on the cookies part). He thinks the most wonderful things, and then there is the ending and guess what Nate did?

Yes, naps may at times seem no fun, but they can bring you to unlimited worlds. And I love that Nate can show the littlest ones among us that.

I still think that Nate has a cute little moustache under his nose. I cannot help it. I try to see it as a shadow... but almost nothing else has a shadow like that. :P

All in all, another wonderful Little Big Nate book, I had so much fun reading this one. I can't wait what is next for Little Big Nate.

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This book has the makings of a perfect board book: short enough to hold a toddler's attention, large, colorful pictures, and rhyming verses. This would be a fun book to have, but I do wish the author has said Nate "doesn't like naps" instead of "hates naps."

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A bright and colourful book about Nate who doesn't like to take a nap. It has simple words for young readers who are learning to read.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for the eARC

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I'm reading it with my primary age kid and obviously the book is too young and childish for readers of that age. I think preschoolers would like the colourful pictures and the big fonts which describe the daily life of Little BIg Nate which they can relate.

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The Big Nate series is so popular in my library. There is a hold list a mile long. This latest younger version of Big Nate will, definitely, appeal to my very young students. They will be delighted to read one in a series that their older sibling reads. The book is sweet and the illustrations vivid. It is bound to stimulate those imaginations.

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A cute little board book version of Big Nate. This would work perfectly for 4K and 5K as a way to introduce them to the beloved Big Nate series!

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Lincoln Peirce is always charming, and this book is no exception. I recommend this Little Big Nate book, along with Peirce's other works, for reading in the classroom, school library, and at home. I love this author's creativity!

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Who would have guessed Big Nate's younger self would be used to launch into a critical study of the whole "it was only a dream" series of Dallas, with appendices regarding other uses of the "actually, the character's fallen asleep already" trope in literature?! Well, you don't get that here, either, but what you do get is an improvement on the first LBN board book, with our hero both showing the imagination of a most typical kid, and protesting the benefit of staying awake at the same time. This is more of its own thing as opposed to just advert for the main titles, so comes with a firmer recommendation.

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This was a very simple book. It was 8 pages long. It would be a good beginner book. The pictures were good. The words were simple. By the time napping becomes an issue the child can probably read this book.

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Little Big Nate No Nap by Lincoln Peirce is a really cute board book for toddlers. The colors are bright and the pictures are adorable and include Nate in each scene. This book will allow toddlers to imagine more because of the short descriptions with pictures... and hopefully make it easier for nap time! ;)

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This is a sweet, short book geared toward very young kids. Little Big Nate doesn’t want to nap. But we get an insight into his dreams and what he does like to do.

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A familiar character comes to us in little form! Naps are hard, but when you start daydreaming maybe they aren’t as bad as they seem. Sweet illustrations and fun rhymes, very cute.

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Little Big Nate: No Nap! was a very cute read and I can see little kids really enjoying this book. The pictures are also super cute!!

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I enjoyed this book, and I love the idea of introducing Big Nate to the kids at an earlier age so that he will be familiar when they get older. But he doesn't have quite the charm of Big Big Nate. Little Big Nate is really every toddler, which is not a bad thing in this book. But it's his character when he is older that makes him stand out in the grade school books.

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