“We had heard that Harcourt was moving West,” explains Don Wood, who illustrated the book. The Woods had no trouble finding a publisher for The Napping House. Finding the style and fitting the pieces together took many months and many versions.” “As soon as I heard the words ‘napping house,’ I knew there was a book in there waiting to be released,” she recalls. When the Woods’ son Bruce was young, he refused to take naps in his family's Santa Barbara home, but would happily doze off while snuggling with his grandmother, who lived two blocks away in what the family dubbed “the napping house.” That phrase struck a chord with author Audrey Wood, who had collaborated with her artist husband on two earlier children’s books. Here’s how The Napping House’s various incarnations came to be. The publisher recently issued a 25th anniversary edition, which includes a CD containing a reading of the tale and six original songs. Inspired by the couple’s own son, a reluctant napper, this story clearly resonated: the picture book has sold 1.6 million copies since its 1984 release by Harcourt. A quarter century has passed since Audrey and Don Wood created The Napping House, a cumulative tale about a boy napping with his grandmother-along with a dog, cat, mouse and flea, all piled one on top of the other.
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