RUBY WINKLE
Posted by: kirin on 
Jun 11th, 2009 | 
Filed under: Book Review
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Ruby Winkle is a tale about a young girl who tirelessly searches for sleep, and is authored and illustrated by Meghan Killeen.
Ms. Killeen has some very unique background in her career. She attended the Art Institute of California in San Francisco and also became a certified English instructor. She worked for a detective agency and also performed in a circus troupe. She has now returned to the forest where she writes stories and makes characters continuously come alive. She currently works for an animation studio. I believe these various experiences in her life may have something to do with her creativity and fantasy to create a children book such as “Ruby Winkle”. Now let’s take a look at a little bit of the inside of “Ruby Winkle”! Ruby Winkle pursues an evasive night of sleep with her teddy bear companion, Garble. She’s comically making every effort to regain her loss of sleep. She also questions the supernatural possibilities of a monster and turns to the magic of hypnosis to aid her quest for rest. Ruby meets several characters who try to help her in their ways but after a sequence of ingenious attempts and trials, it is Ruby’s mother who offers the easiest suggestion for a night of zzz…s. To learn more about Ruby Winkle, please visit www.rubywinkle.com. |
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June 12th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Ah! I know how she feels : you get tired , you lie down and BOING, you're wide awake.
A nice warm shower helps or a nice warm bath.
Sometimes I fall asleep before I get to bed. Oh yeah!
2 o'clock in the morning and you wake up sitting in front of the tv and your neck is stiff and your back hurts and you drag yourself to bed to try to sleep for a few more hours. Haha! And then I fall asleep in the afternoon at work ( usually during a meeting ).
I wonder what Ruby's mother's easiest suggestion is ?
June 13th, 2009 at 1:05 am
In Japan, most of us take a bath at night before going to bed, and I think this is good to help us sleep well. I LOVE bathing so much, and I start to feel very sleepy even while bathing. Sometimes I fall asleep in a bath tab, which is considered dangerous though…
June 14th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Just one thing to say is that Japanese water is different than the one in other countries. I really felt a difference at least. I can't forget the o-furo before going to bed. They were definitely the best! In the cold winter… once I got off the furo I was very aka-iro… because I'm white and I have difficulties going into hot bath like the Japanese one.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I know what you mean. That's why I remember how strange I felt when I first had evian or contrex or whatever mineral water that are from Europe, which was totally different from mineral water from Mt. Fuji, for example. That's a story of difference on drinking water. When it comes to tap water, I think that too much chlorine is put in it by our waterworks department.
Oh you liked Japanese way of bathing! I think it's good for our health, too.
Actually Japanese-styled bath and Japanese foods are 2 major things I miss badly when I live in other countries.
June 15th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
I guess so. Many Japanese can't live abroad if they don't have Japanese food there. Especially their famous natto!
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