While You Are Sleeping - Tapa dura

We are the bedside toys.

Do you ever stop to think what we go through,

night after night, while you are sleeping?

Every day they sit as still as stone but at night the bedside team come to life; scaring away bad dreams, squishing the bed bugs flat and even checking for monsters. It’s hard work, but in the morning, when their owner awakes, the bedside toys are richly rewarded. With breathtaking illustrations and poignant text, this wonderfully atmospheric picture book is suffused with magic.

Do you ever stop to think what we go through, night after night, to look after you?

It's hard work being a bedside toy. Every night ther's so much to do. New arrivals have to learn fast if they want to be part of the crew.

You'll never believe what happens while you are sleeping...

Acclaimed author-illustrator Alexis Deacon has produced another beautiful, haunting picture book full of warmth and gentle humour.

'(Deacon's) illustrations...carry distant reminders of some of the best illustrators of the last 100 years and yet still remain uniquely his own.' Sunday Telegraph