A review by luann
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap by Dianne Snyder, Allen Say

3.0

I immediately loved these illustrations! They pull you right into the Japanese setting. It seemed at first that Taro, a boy who is so lazy it was said he takes three-year naps, would somehow be rewarded for his laziness with his plan to trick his rich neighbor into letting him marry his daughter. While he doesn't exactly suffer any ill consequences, things don't go exactly as he had planned, which I liked. It just goes to show that a good mother will always be a great benefit to her children. This would be a fun one to share with my library classes sometime and see if they think the lazy boy got what he deserved. This won a Caldecott Honor in 1989.