I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed

by Lauren Child

Book Overview

"Whether they spot themselves in Charlie or Lola, young ones will enjoy this exuberant, hilarious spin on a bedtime story." -- Booklist

Night owl Lola likes to stay up coloring and scribbling and wriggling and bouncing and chattering. Lola never gets tired. How can big brother Charlie convince her it's time for bed? Heralded by the Washington Post as "a delightful new voice in children's books," author-illustrator Lauren...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763629707
• ISBN13: 9780763629700
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 9.6" x 10.6"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

FIRR-Kids! Review

Wow! This is the most amazing pop up book! There are tabs on every single page that do all sorts of different things. Of course there is pop up, but also pull down, slide over, twirl around and swoop down. It's so much fun! And being that it's Charlie and Lola, you can read this in a fake British accent while your kids roll their eyes. As the title implies, Lola likes to stay up late and not go to bed. Charlie must work to keep her on track in spite of her outlandish excuses. Lola can't possibly get ready for bed when there are tigers who pop up in the kitchen needing a bedtime drink, a lion hogging her toothbrush and whales swimming round the bathtub. Not to mention the dancing dogs twirling about in her pajamas and a hippo lounging in her bed. Bedtime is a real zoo around here! This is an awesome book that offers plenty of hands-on activities for the readers. Each tab is different from the last, so you won't know what to expect when you turn the page. A great deal of thought went into the tabs to make them ever so entertaining - the dogs actually twirl around in the bed and the toothpaste pulls out in a squiggle. In all, a great big oversized book with a ton of fun inside!

We Love This Series - a review of "I am not Sleepy..." (Charlie and Lola)

I am sorry to say that we only discovered this wonderful series of books after running across them on television. What a Joy!!! (Either the show or the book.) The tenderness between brother and sister is so refreshing and I can tell you that not only I respond positively to it; my children (who are boy and girl also) adore the pair. [Sometimes they pretend to Charlie and Lola although in our case sister is the Big One.] Now if tenderness was the only strength of this book, I doubt it would be as popular as it is at our home. The creativity that Charlie (and author Child) takes to solving Lola's complaints is just great. Five Stars. Creativity, great artwork, and tenderness makes this book a winner. Highly recommend it.

A lighthearted story

I got this because my two year old HATES going to bed...when I do manage to try to take a nap, I'm poked in the cheek and she is chanting..."no shleepy mommy, no shleepy"...so when I saw this book I knew it was for us. It is funny and charming and my two year old giggles each time Lola halts the bed time process with another wild step. And even more fun is watching my 8 year old reading it to her little sister as a bed time story. It is fun, the illustrations are good. I'm happy we have this book!

Lola's Back.....

For all those who loved I Will Never Not Ever Eat A Tomato, Lola and her ever-patient brother, Charlie, are back and this time he's faced with an even bigger challenge...putting Lola to bed. She's just never sleepy and loves to stay up late coloring and scribbling, sticking stickers and wriggling, bouncing and most of all chattering. In fact, she tells him she's just not ever tired. "I will probably still be perky at even 13 o'clock." But Charlie is experienced in the procrastinating ways of a very imaginative Lola and has a creative solution for each and every one of her stall tactics..... Lauren Child has written another charming and amusing story featuring the irrepressable Lola and youngsters will delight in all of her antics as she tries to stay up later and later. Ms Child's humorous and realistic text is only outdone by her marvelously detailed artwork that combines photographs, collages, childlike drawings and different font colors and sizes into an illustrative feast for the eyes. Perfect for youngsters 4-8, I Am Not Sleepy And Will Not Go To Bed is a wonderful bedtime story that's sure to tickle the funny bone of your little "Lola" and a book kids will beg to read again and again.

Bedtime book for an older (or younger) sibling

Lauren Child provides another Charlie and Lola story for everyone who loved "I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato." Lola refuses to go to bed and her longsuffering older brother, Charlie, tries all sorts of subtle manipulations to convince her otherwise. My favorite argument is for Lola's favorite bedtime drink, strawberry milk, which she can only have if she is headed to bed. Lola thinks up more excuses for avoiding bedtime than most children I have dealt with.This picture book serves as a great book for a frustrated child with younger, irrational siblings, but the humor can be appreciated by all. The books remind me of Judy Blume's "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and "Superfudge" which chronicle another oldest child's trials and tribulations with younger siblings. The love, although exasperated, is apparent in Charlie and Lola's relationship. I highly recommend both Charlie and Lola books.