Oliver Who Would Not Sleep - Tapa dura

Written in fast and furious rhyme...wonderful to read aloud (Child Care)

A creative tour de force, this book marries bergman's sparkling rhyming text with Nick Maland's distinctive textured illustrations (The Glasgow Herald)

Told in rollicking rhyme reminscent of AA Milne (The Northern Echo)

This is marvellous (Families Magazine)

With its rhythmic text this action packed bedtime story is fun to read aloud and well complimented by brightly coloured illustrations (Carousel)

A celebration of sleeplessness (My Child)

In Oliver Who Would Not Sleep (Hodder £10.99), "Oliver Donnington Rimington-Sneep COULDN'T and DIDN'T and WOULD NOT SLEEP!" as a splendidly rhythmic text by Mara Bergman unfolds the story of a boy's imaginative play. He takes a trip to Mars before he settles down. Nick Maland's stylish illustrations add intriguing incident to the tale, using muted colour and lots of pattern. (Nicolette Jones, Times)

'I've left my favourite to last. Oliver Who Would Not Sleep is a tale of a boy for whom bed is the springboard of a restless imagination... Mara Bergmans' verse beings with the jaunty insistence of a nursery rhyme... revs up at blast off, grows quiet for Oliver's contemplation of Mars and then whizzes him back home and puts him gently, gently down to sleep. Nick Maland's illustrations keep pace, and they move the reader skilfully between the sold world of the bedroom and its contents and the porous world of play that Oliver makes for them. (Clive Barnes, Books for Keeps)

Oliver Donnington Rimington Sneep couldn't and didn't and would not sleep. It's not that he is afraid of the dark, or monsters, or robbers or sounds from the park. But Oliver Donnington Rimington Sneep likes staying awake more than going to sleep. Join Oliver on his journey to Mars and back before he finally, finally, finally goes to sleep. Superb bedtime tale, told in rhyme and great to read aloud, with stunning illustrations from award-winner Nick Maland.