While You're Asleep

Written and illustrated by Emmy Kastner

Nighttime animals disrupt a bedtime story with their lively antics.

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48 pages· ~520L

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Bookroo's summary

As the world settles into sleep, a narrator attempts to tell a bedtime story. But nocturnal creatures like raccoons and foxes have other plans, turning the night into a lively festival. Will the narrator manage to lull them to sleep, or will the midnight revelry continue? Discover the unexpected twists as skunks, beavers, and more join the nocturnal celebration, challenging the narrator's peaceful tale.

From the publisher

In the spirit of The Panda Problem, this “funny, raucous, and ultimately satisfying” (Mac Barnett, New York Times bestselling author) meta picture book shows what both diurnal and nocturnal animals get up to while you’re asleep. When the Earth slowly spins and light fades away, animals hunker down for bedtime. But the narrator’s cozy story is interrupted by fireflies flickering, raccoons enjoying chicken dinners, and foxes planning a nighttime festival. The narrator eventually gives up trying to get the nocturnal creatures to go to sleep like everyone else as skunks, beavers, and more gather for a midnight soiree you’d have to see to believe…if you weren’t asleep!

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