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While You Are Sleeping (Hardcover)

by Alexis Deacon (Author)
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Product details

  • Hardcover: 32 pages
  • Publisher: Hutchinson (2 Mar 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0091893313
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091893316
  • Product Dimensions: 27 x 24.2 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 450,497 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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. 'Deacon is undoubtedly a welcome new talent.' - "Sunday Times". '[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". 'Deacon's debut picture book displays admirable originality and draughtsmanship, and a great sense of humour.' - "Times on Slow Loris". 'Beegu is a story of remarkable pathos and its eponymous blobby character-is utterly beguiling.' - "Guardian on Beegu".

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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

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5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful, 15 Nov 2006
By Mrs. S. Lewis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: While You Are Sleeping (Hardcover)
This is a hauntingly lovely book from a writer and illustrator who appears to understand that even very young children can be far more sophisticated in understanding and subtle in discernment than the majority of children's writers give them credit for. Never since "The Velveteen Rabbit" has the protective power and inner life of toys been so lovingly rendered.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Scary, 11 Jun 2009
By M. Ahmed-Ali - See all my reviews
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This review is from: While You are Sleeping (Paperback)
I found this story in a charity shop, and i have to say i returned it after having read it once to my five year old. The plot is pointless and the illustrations are scary. My daughter asked me to cover the faces of the toys in the book because the eyes were small dark shadows and they did look creepy indeed.
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