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Visit your library regularly,

Frequent treat. Put cloth and board books in the baby's playpen

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and make buying new

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everywhere

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intimacy of the reading experience with books.

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EXPERIENCE. Use the books you've read

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jumping-off point for other

discussions with children.

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want you

all in

bed early tonight,"

said Mrs. Large. "It's

and we're going

"Can we be

to

Daddy's birthday,

have a quiet night

in."

there too?" asked Laura.

''No," said Mrs. Large. "It wouldn't be

quiet with the

around 'But

we

like are

gang of you

all

charging

a herd of elephants."

a herd of elephants," said Lester

'Smarty-pants," said Mrs. Large.

now, coats on.

It's

"Come on

time for school."

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That evening, Mrs. Large had the children bathed

and

in their

pajamas before they had even had their dinner. 'It's

"It's c

It

They were

all

very cranky.

only four-thirty," said Lester. not even dark yet."

soon

will be," said

Mrs. Large grimly.

After their baths, the children started

making place cards and decorations dinner table.

Then they

all

for the

cleaned up.

Then Mrs. Large cleaned up

again.

Mr. Large arrived 'We're

all

home

looking very

tired.

going to bed," said Lester.

"So you can be quiet," said Laura.

'Without

us," said

Luke.

"Shhhh," said the baby.

'Happy birthday,"

said Mrs. Large.

Mr. Large sank heavily into the lie

said, "but

in front

"Come and

see the table."

sofa. "It's lovely, dear,"

do you think we could have our dinner on trays

of the

TV?

Tin feeling a

little

tired."

"Of course,"

said Mrs. Large. "It's your birthday.

You can have whatever you want." "We'll help," said Luke.

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children ran to the kitchen

and brought two

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I'll

set

them," said Mrs. Large.

"We

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want

trays,

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"Can we have

a story before

we

go to bed?" asked Luke. "Please," said Lester. kk

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Dad," said Laura.

"Just one.

"Story!" said the baby.

"Oh,

all

right," said

Mr. Large.

"Just one, then."

Lester chose a book,

and they

cuddled up on the sofa.

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Mr. Large opened the book and began to read:

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don't like that one," said Laura.

M ook," said

you can So they

all

sat

Mr. Large, go straight

and

"if you're to

big garage.

"It's

a boy's story."

going to argue about

bed without any

listened while

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story."

Mr. Large read

to

them.

it,

After a while he stopped.

"Go

on, Daddy," said Luke.

"What happened bumped

into

after

he

Garry Garbagetruck?"

"Did they have a fight?" asked

Lester.

'Look," said Laura. "Daddy's asleep."

"Shhhh!" said the baby.

Mrs. Large laughed. "Poor Daddy," she said.

"Never mind, while

I

take you

'Will

you

Wc

don't

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we'll let all

him snooze a

up

Mom?"

know what happens

"Story!" said the baby.

longer

to bed."

just finish the story,

"Please/' said Laura.

little

in the

asked Lester. end," said Luke

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"Move over the

then," said Mrs. Large. She picked up

book and began

you're going, you

to read:

silly

'

'Watch where

Garbagetruck!' said Binky.

Just then, Patty the Police

Car came

driving by

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After a while, Mrs. Large stopped reading.

'What's that strange noise?" asked Lester. 'Its

Mommy

snoring," said Luke. "Daddy's snoring too."

"They must be very

tired," said

Laura, kindly.

"Shhhh!" said the baby.

The

children crept from the sofa

and got a blanket.

They covered Mr. and Mrs. Large and tucked them

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arm

in.

'We'd better put ourselves to bed,"

"Come

said Lester.

"Should

we

take the food up with us?"

asked Luke. "It's

Tin

on."

"It

is

on

a pity to waste

trays."

it,"

said Laura.

sure they wouldn't mind.

Anyway,

they wanted a quiet night in."

"Shhhh!" said the baby.

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MURPHY

began writing and

she was twenty-seven years old.

illustrating chidren's

Her

first

books when

story about the ebullient

Large family, Five Minutes' Peace, received the Parents Magazine Best Books for Babies

Award, and was declared "painfully runny" by The also the author of

The Worst Witch

at

New

York Times Book Review.

Sea and Jeffrey Strangeways, both novels for

middle-grade readers; and The' Last NoO'Noo, a picture book. She dedicates fu In,

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the fourth Large family story, to exhausted parents everywhere.

'This book

is

She

one from the heart," she

says.

Quiet

is

one of your child's favorites, why not buy another copy or a hardback edition to put safely aside as a keepsake? Your child and your child's children will thank you! If

this paperback

is

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you're looking for children's books, the bear. it's your guarantee of quality.

tenia "In this fourth story about the Large family, .\nd the plan

is

go to bed early so the parents can The New York Times Book Review

for the elephant children to

have a quiet adult celebration. Ha!"

this

Mr. Large's birthday,

it is

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"Another hilarious chapter in the elephant family's chronicles, is a definite winner Not to be missed." School Library Journal .

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"A

Smithsonian magazine

fetching tale tor tired parents everywhere." •

"Murphy's pictures have the same affectionate

feel for

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children's daily lives as her text."

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"Brimming with

droll particulars,

Murphy's

family's antics arc as spirited as ever."

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