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Some books appeal to children and some to their parents but it's a rare book that appeals to both. Every adult who has seen this book has have read straight through and then gone back to the beginning and read it again, loving the rhyme and the anarchic illustrations, delighting in the fact that it's not just easy to read aloud – you have to! Children love it because of the impudence of the things that Oliver does when he really should be in bed and asleep. They're the things that they would all love to do. The story escalates quickly as Oliver becomes more extreme and then winds down until he gently subsides into sleep, his books, paintings, magic set and rocket scattered around the room. It's the ideal bedtime story.

For another book that makes an ideal wind-down story at bedtime , you might enjoy James Mayhew's [[Where's My Cuddle?]]. You might also find [[Dozy Bear and the Secret of Sleep by Katie Blackburn and Richard Smythe]] useful.