The day is done. It’s time for little ones to go to bed. But first, one poorly demon needs his Calpol, there’s a tiny cyborg to plug in and charge, and the slimy green star of Huw Aaron’s latest story, Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob (Puffin), must be dragged away from the Lego.
Welsh author, illustrator and graphic novelist Aaron has flipped the traditional bedtime story on its head to create a delightfully different rhyming tale about child monsters and villains settling down for the night. But, rather than causing a fright, it brims with just the right amount of loving cosiness to help mini humans drift off. Mummy blob narrates from inside an almost normal house but, beyond the potted plants on the window ledge, dragons and aliens swoop outside, and when Mum plops her precious slimeball into bed, the pillow is “lovely and damp”. Sharp, fun and brimming with attention to detail, it’s also guaranteed to be the year’s only book with the line: “The Sentient Meteor is snug in her cot.”
