Yeti, Turn Out the Light!

by Greg Long, Chris Edmundson, Wednesday Kirwan (Illustrator)

Overview

All Yeti wants to do after a long day in the woods is to close his eyes and go to sleep. But something is not right! Shadows lurk, sounds creak, and there are monsters...or are there? This entertaining bedtime book featuring the fierce and frenetic GAMAGO Yeti will amuse and delight kids, all while encouraging them to turn out the light and go to sleep!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452130965
Publisher:	Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date:	08/27/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	36
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Greg Long and Chris Edmundson are the co-founders of GAMAGO. They live in San Francisco, California.

Wednesday Kirwan is an illustrator at GAMAGO. She lives in San Francisco, California.

Editorial Reviews

There’s nothing more frightening than a yeti—unless that yeti is frightened. This one is a homely fellow with red eyes, gray-blue fur, and snaggleteeth, and he’s snuggled in bed in his underground forest lair (where his rustic decor includes a birch-bark lampshade). He’d like to go to sleep, but he keeps seeing scary shadows—the kind with tendrils and claws that spill from wall to ceiling. Fortunately, the book’s page-turns always reveal them to have been cast by groups of harmless, liquid-eyed forest creatures who have come to visit: “On the light goes,/ and to Yeti’s surprise,/ he sees only bunnies,/ and their big bunny eyes.” Kirwan dials the visiting animals’ cuteness factor to the max, and her exuberantly colored spreads have the look of ’60s TV cartoons; the writers are the founders of GAMAGO, a West Coast design firm. The complex shadows correspond, more or less, to the strange postures the animals take—a terrifying Frankenstein’s monster shadow, for example, proves to be an owl sitting on a bear’s head with a teapot in its wing. It’s a cheerfully executed, laugh-out-loud exploration of fear and the dark. Ages 3–5. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"A well-told tale of nighttime collywobbles, suitable for framing."-Kirkus Reviews

"A well-told tale of nighttime collywobbles, suitable for framing."-Kirkus Reviews

"A well-told tale of nighttime collywobbles, suitable for framing."-Kirkus Reviews

"Sharp and modern images make each page of Yeti, Turn Out the Light pop, and quirky little details...make even the fiftieth time through a pleasurable one. "—Apartment Therapy

"Sharp and modern images make each page of Yeti, Turn Out the Light pop, and quirky little details...make even the fiftieth time through a pleasurable one. "—Apartment Therapy

"Sharp and modern images make each page of Yeti, Turn Out the Light pop, and quirky little details...make even the fiftieth time through a pleasurable one. "—Apartment Therapy

"A cheerfully executed, laugh-out-loud exploration of fear and the dark."—Publishers Weekly

"A cheerfully executed, laugh-out-loud exploration of fear and the dark."—Publishers Weekly

"A cheerfully executed, laugh-out-loud exploration of fear and the dark."—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

When a yeti gets a case of the heebie-jeebies, then something clearly is amiss. Readers meet Long and Edmundson's Yeti, a yeti, as the day draws to a close. He heads to his cave, has some spaghetti and meatballs, flosses and hits the sack. But Yeti can't sleep, as shadows lurk, "dart[ing] frightfully near! // They dance up the wall, / and, my, are they scary! / Oh, what could they be? / Yeti is wary...." Yeti flicks on the light. Three jewel-eyed bunnies stand there. The rabbits join Yeti in bed, off goes the light, and back come the shadows. This goes on as Yeti discovers a horde of his pals come to visit, until he shoos them to their respective beds and finally gets some shut-eye. This is a gentle and empathetic approach to the bedtime skitters, with a good and clear explanation for something that bedevils most kids when there is just enough light to conjure those creepy shadows. Kirwan's artwork is not just luscious, but also smart and inviting in style, the matte colors effectively evoking scary shadows as well as laughably nonthreatening friends once the light is on. A well-told tale of nighttime collywobbles, suitable for framing. (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews