One Potato Review

The other side of the pillow. For very young readers – whose sleep is not yet likely disturbed by the larger worries of orthodontia and evil clowns – this book is a fuzzy distillation of all of the primal inconveniences that have been keeping children up since back when “all the rocks were little pebbles and all the chicks were still in their eggs.” It’s only with the animals’ cooperation that this little sleepyhead finally gets it figured out. To each of the animals’ efforts children will too often delight in repeating “No!” to make any progress of their own, but this is a comforting and perfectly executed fable nevertheless: the book you read before the book you read to get your children to finally go to sleep.