Max & Milo Go to Sleep!
With Audio Recording
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
Meet Max and Milo, two hilarious beaver brothers who make going to sleep an up-all-night adventure. Includes audio!
Milo can’t get to sleep: He tosses and turns; he turns and he tosses. And then finally he calls on his older brother: “MAX! WAKE UP!”
But no matter what helpful sleeping tip Max suggests, Milo turns it riotously on its head and is as far from rest as ever. Will Milo finally get to sleep? Will he ever stop driving Max crazy? Will the beaver brothers be up half the night in search of forty winks?
Insomniacs everywhere, take comfort! Max and Milo are here to solve your sleepless nights in the most hilarious of ways!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Parents Heather and Ethan Long she in her debut and he the creator of recent picture books including Soup for One and Pig Has a Plan fictionalize the repartee between their real-life sons in this jittery bedtime story. Brightly lit comics panels, packed with voice-balloon dialogue and restless activity, present two young beavers in their PJs. Max, with his frown and heavy eyelids, looks exhausted, but Milo cannot settle down. The brothers could be twins, with their matching bedroom furniture, yet their personalities differ. To get the picture, readers need only compare Milo's unkempt side of the bedroom, strewn with books and paper airplanes, to Max's tidy space (kept separate by the page gutter), which is tastefully decorated with a soccer poster and diploma. High-energy Milo repeatedly wakes his drowsy brother and asks for help in getting to sleep, and sedate Max predictably ends up the one with insomnia at the conclusion. This classic odd-couple tale, built around the comedic interplay between Milo's inability to focus and put-upon Max's stability, is ripe for sequels. Ages 4 8.