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Illustration from children's book 'Why Won't You Sleep,' featuring a scared looking monster in bed.

Oh Why Won’t You Sleep?

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Featuring a frustrated monster narrator trying to persuade a child to go to sleep (and providing plenty of handy and increasingly desperate hints that don’t work), Why Won’t You Sleep has now been published in Spanish and Korean. It’s interesting seeing how the style of the book has changed in these new versions, especially the Korean one with its unique alphabet – I love how it becomes a beautiful graphic element in its own right. And the upside down Spanish question and exclamation marks, which I’m now remembering from long-ago Spanish at school.

Pero ¿por qué no te duermes? A question I ask myself often…

 

‘Why Won’t You Sleep’ by Adam Wallace & Carla Martell | Scholastic Australia

Closeup of a green monster playing the drums, from the Spanish and Korean children's book covers of 'Why Won't You Sleep?'
Illustration from children's book 'Why Won't You Sleep', of a green and blue monster who is freezing cold.
The cover of children's book 'Why Won't You Sleep' by Adam Wallace and Carla Martell.
A page from children's book 'Why Won't You Sleep,' with a bunch of black and white sheep and words in Korean.
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