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As the monster gradually rallies against stereotypes and directs its ire toward readers, the book plumbs even greater depths of humor. Fiendish monsters - and everyone else - rejoice!' - Kirkus 'A grand return to a world of endearing monsters from the duo behind I Will Chomp You!. 'A perfect choice for a rollicking read-aloud, library collections, and picture book fans everywhere.' - School Library Journal starred review Recipient of the Oregon Spirit Book Award Honor Prize Winner of the North Carolina Children's Book Award for 2018 or his feet.Īnd he does lots of other bad things too.īut what happens when a bad seed doesn't want to be bad anymore? Can a bad seed change his baaaaaaaad ways?Īmazon Editor's Pick: a Best Children's Book of the Year selection! A thoughtful, candid look at self-reflection.” - Kirkus When the rogue seed decides 'to be happy' by doing good, it’s not so hard to cheer for him. 'Young readers (and some older ones as well) will chuckle at the list of misdeeds, then perhaps wonder whether they’re guilty of such baaaaaaaaaaad behavior themselves, but John aims for more fruitful ground.

This charmingly illustrated book would be a comical read-aloud and useful for class or family discussions about manners, behavior, and reputation.' - School Library Journal (STARRED review) 'This is a story that opens up dialogue about our reactions to life experiences, the consequences of our choices, and the chance to make a change for the better. 'This is kid-book humor at its best, both warmhearted and frisky - the kind that leaves adults, too, cracking up and grateful.' - The New York Times Davies's spot-on illustrations are both whimsical and tender, adding a feeling of intimacy to John's humor.' - The New York TimesĪ Junior Library Guild Selection (Fall 2017)Īn Amazon Best Children's Book of the Month selection 'An exhausted bear on the way to bed must fend off the incursions of his chatty, bored, coffee-drinking duck friend in this witty take on trouble in the sleep department. friendly illustrations, Goodnight Already! will be an oft-requested book.' - BookPage

John's tale offers plenty for readers of all ages. Duck's energetic appeals will have even the littlest readers laughing. 'Author Jory John easily handles the dry humor that has taken over children's literature in recent years. 'Children and adults will both delight in John's hysterical picture book that is sure to become a bedtime classic.' - Indie Next List Jory John, author of All My Friends Are Dead, and Benji Davies join together to create this standout hilarious picture book that will make bedtime memorable. Meet Duck, Bear's persistent next-door neighbor. Nominated for a 2015 Goodreads Choice Award: Best Picture Book Reprinted with kind permission of of a 2015 E.B.

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This programme note can be reproduced free of charge in concert programmes with the following credit line: The little pavane, “She’s So Fine,” for example, is expressly made for Joan Jeanrenaud’s sweetly lyrical high cello register, and the hoe-down, “Dogjam”, honors David Harrington’s bluegrass proclivities. The music was composed with the personalities of the Kronos players very much in mind. The general tone is dry, droll, sardonic. The dances were “alleged” because the steps for them had yet to be invented (although by now a number of choreographers, including Paul Taylor, have created pieces around them). This made for a lot of suspense in the live performance-perhaps too much, as the potential for crash-and-burn was so high that Kronos eventually persuded me to create a CD of the loops, a decision that allowed for significantly less anxiety during concerts. In the original version of Alleged Dances the prepeared piano sounds were organized as loops installed in an onstage sampler, and one of the quartet players triggered them on cue with a foot pedal. The prepared piano was, of course, the invention of John Cage, who first put erasers, nuts, bolts, and other damping objects in the the strings of the grand piano, thereby transforming it into a kind of pygmy gamelan. The “Book” is a collection of ten dances, six of which are accompanied by a recorded percussion track made of prepared piano sounds. The Concerto emboldened me to go further with string writing, and some of the techniques and gestures I’d touched on in it appeared again in the new string quartet, only in a less earnest guise.

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The Alleged Dances were the next pieces written after the Violin Concerto, a complex work that took a full year to compose.

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