New from Candlewick Press is Charlie and Lola’s I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed Pop-Up. Charlie and his sister star in a whimsical bedtime tale. Charlie informs readers that when his parents ask him to put his sister to bed, “This is a hard job because Lola likes to stay up late.-most of all chattering.” When he says, “But all the birds have gone to sleep,” she does not fall for his logic: “But I am not a bird, Charlie.” He tries to bribe her with her favorite drink, strawberry milk; she tells him that the three tigers at the table want some, too. And so this imaginative adventure continues-Lola and a lion brush their teeth, she takes a bath with a whale, Charlie phones two dancing dogs to ask whether she may borrow their pajamas. After hopping into bed at last, “small and very funny” Lola informs her brother that there is a hippopotamus in his bed.
This has quickly become Kaitlyn’s favorite book. She calls it the “go to bed book”, and she loves when I help her pull the paper levers that activate the pop-up features. I confess to being a cheapskate when it comes to purchasing most books, but this book is absolutely worth the $19.99 retail price. It’s charming and silly and sweet, and would make a great gift for children 2 1/2 and up.
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I have loved Charlie and Lola from the start. It was more my second daughter’s era, she is now 12. I love the way each book or tv episode deals with the small issue’s encountered by young children in such an entertaining way.