The Boy of the Three-Year Nap

By Dianne Snyder

Subjects: Tricksters, lexile:610, Poverty, Boys, fiction, grade:min:Preschool, age:max:7, Caldecott Medal, lexile_range:601-700, lexile_code:AD, grade:max:3, Laziness, Mothers and sons, Tutelaries (Shinto), collectionID:caldecotthonor80, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile Wit and humor, Juvenile fiction, Novela juvenil, Folklore, age:min:4, award:Caldecott_award, Pereza

Description: A poor Japanese woman maneuvers events to change the lazy habits of her son.