Sssh! the Moon is Sleeping takes an amusing look at favourite nursery characters and bedtime. On each page, a little mouse makes his way through a storyland village, until it's time for everyone to be asleep - even the reader.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 1999 by Oxford University Press .

Marion Rose is the author of several picture books for young children. She lives with her family in North London. Jason Cockroft is a regular contributor to the Bloomsbury list. He has worked on both picture books for us as well as fiction jackets, included Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Jason lives in Leeds. Sally Emerson is an adult novelist with a particular interest in traditional rhymes for children. Colin and Moira Maclean are the popular illustrators of over fifty books for children, particularly traditional material such as fairy tales, nursery rhymes and nursery stories. Their books for Kingfisher include The Kingfisher Playtime Treasury and The Kingisher Nursery Treasury. Moira Maclean lives in the South of France. Colin Maclean died in 1997.