Description

Bedtime is not hard because children do not want to sleep. It is hard because a busy body does not stop simply because the room has gone dark.

The Sleepy Stone is written for that. The story moves deliberately slowly, with a rhythm and a repeating image designed to be followed rather than listened to, so that a child’s breathing has something to fall in step with.

There is no lesson and nothing to answer. It is a story built to be read aloud in a low voice at the end of a long day, by a grown-up who is also fairly tired.

For the nights when everyone needs the day to be over.

Part of Little Signals — gentle stories about what bodies do when feelings get big. For children aged 4–8.