Mariella loves nothing more than inventing but bedtime keeps getting in the way of all her brilliant ideas! So when Mum and Dad won't take no for an answer there's only one thing for it... Mariella has to build a rocket-powered flying suit to zap her round the world faster than the setting sun! If anyone can outsmart sleep it's Mariella. But everyone needs sleep and without it all of Mariella's brilliant ideas might just disappear. A "how to live a happy life" tale told with humour, warmth and a loveable female protagonist.

 

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Barrington Stoke Ltd .

Karen Wallace is an award-winning author of children's books for all ages. Her Goose Pimple Bay Sagas was a World Book Day recommended read in 2008 and Li Fu's Great Aim was chosen for the 2008 Boys into Books Promotion. Karen has also created the popular Alice the Anteater books. Katy Halford is from Leicestershire, and can't remember a time before she loved to draw. As a child she would create paper houses and shops and would play for hours in these imaginary worlds, creating little stories and acting them out. She went on to graduate at Loughborough University with a degree in Illustration. Katy is fascinated by people and animals and turning them into characters. She loves to add patterns and details to clothing, fun hairstyles, hats, glasses and lots of other accessories! Robert Dunbar said of Eoin Colfer's first novel, BENNY AND OMAR (an instant number one bestseller in Ireland), "A wonderful book, absolutely hilarious. "