Real life

The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed

Author Helen Cooper

Illustrator Helen Cooper

  • Story

    It’s bedtime but the baby doesn’t want to go to bed. He wants to stay up all night. He drives off in his little car seeking an adventure… He meets a tiger and some soldiers and a band of musicians but they are all too tired to play. Will the baby’s mother ever get the baby to bed?

  • Why we chose it

    A magical story about bedtime. You can still see the mural based on the story painted by Helen Cooper in our Small Worlds gallery.

  • First published

    1996, Doubleday, UK