Hello Sleep - by Saehan Parc (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Told in comic strip form, this whimsical and soothing bedtime story for kids ages 4-8 will help struggling young sleepers drift off to dreamland!

We all sometimes have a hard time going to sleep. But did you know that Sleep itself can have trouble sleeping, too?

Sleep is a friendly figure with a magic wand, who visits all living things and sends them off to dreamland when night falls. You know about Sleep, she visits you every night without fail. But what about Sleep, doesn't she need her slumber too? Everyone she stops to ask just dozes off!

Sleep travels the world, seeking cozy places to settle down, from atop a bunch of baby chicks, to Santa's beard, to a baobob canopy; she listens to a lullaby, a meditation; she floats down the Amazon and rides an updraft in Siberia. Nothing does the trick: sleep keeps evading Sleep! Until a cat's soft purring snore sends Sleep just where she needs to go. Goodnight, Sleep.

Saehan Parc's playful story and cute, dreamy illustrations will help young readers float off to dreamland.

Review Quotes

"Hello Sleep is gently melancholy (in the lineage of Goodnight Moon). The flat, geometric art isn't pixilated but somehow (for me) calls to mind old Nintendo side-scrolling games, and the kind of early computer art that elicits an aura of nostalgia." --Ben Hatke, The New York Times

"Parc's English-language debut creates an extraordinary visual lullaby built around a slumber-granting figure's nightly rounds . . . It's a rare bedtime picture book that embodies the very feeling it describes: that twilight state in which rollicking consciousness surrenders to dreams."
--Publishers Weekly, starred review

About the Author

Saehan Parc is an illustrator and comic artist from South Korea, now based in Strasbourg, France. She has published numerous fanzines, and her first book, Papa Balloon, was awarded the Prix Révélation Livre Jeunesse ADAGP 2021.

Selene Bright is a translator of French literature.