Who’s Going to Bed?

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Who’s Going to Bed?

Abie Longstaff, illustrated by Eve Coy

(Penguin)

The animals are going to bed, while ‘pirates have packed away their treasure and folded up their flag‘, so Who’s Going to Bed? While the teddies have ‘packed away their picnic‘ and the King and Queen have ‘tucked in their knights’, we gaze across the nighttime world. We see the lights dim and everyone turn in, it seems. However, ‘What’s this?’ Could it be that someone is still wide awake? Not ‘a cheeky baby’! What’s he going to do?

It seems as though he’s out to awaken the sleeping world with his ‘Wake up! Wake up! BANG BANG BANG BANG!’ Everyone is roused and ready to join his adventure until they come across a little dragon who is ‘so tired’. What will the teddies, monkeys, pirates and little baby do?

Abie Longstaff and Eve Coy have created the perfect going to bed story for very little readers. There’s a natural rhythm and sequence to the text, with repetition and a sense of order. Thereafter, we enjoy the mayhem of the little baby, and the return to the way things should be. Eve Coy’s night scented pictures are so beautiful, comforting, approachable and warm. Who’s Going to Bed? like Here Comes the Sun, is an essential, ‘forever’ title to share at bedtime with new readers.