When Little Children Sleep

Jonas Kleinschmidt & Lillian Brøgger

What are the grown-ups up to, when the children are asleep?

At bedtime the parents read two good night stories. No, three! And it works, the children fall asleep.
”Finally”, dad says. ”Now let’s have a party!”
While the children sleep mom and dad dance on the table, invite their friends, paint on the walls, make pizza and eat candy … Like all parents do when their children are asleep, right?

When Little Children Sleep is a fun and moving book about what children think being a parent is like. About how unfair it is that adults can stay up so late at night and all the things mom and dad do when the children are asleep.

With its very expressive illustrations, this is a fun book to read with a child, to fantasize together about that time of day that children are so curious about.