Mission: Bedtime
Tracey Corderoy and Alex Patrick
Little Tiger

It’s bedtime in the bear household. All the adults are tired out but not so little Kit. She is wide awake, bursting with energy and eager to watch Agent Penguin on TV.

Grandpa may be feeling sleepy but not so much that it prevents him from having a clever idea. Off he goes into his shed to make some items for secret agents to use. He then turns the adult bears into a team of secret agents – there’s Agent Exhauster, Agent Bubble-Boss and Agent Gadget – and allocates each a special mission for Kit to undertake. Will any of them have the desired effect, calm the little bear down and send her on the way to slumberland, mission accomplished;

or will it be three cases of mission impossible? If so can Grandpa come up with an extra special bonus mission that can do the trick?

Little humans will laugh at Kit’s high-spirited behaviour probably enjoying her missions as much as the small protagonist, whereas adults who are accustomed to bedtime procrastination will recognise Kit’s delaying tactics with a smile and one hopes, employ that bonus mission like Grandpa did.

Assuredly a book for young and old to enjoy together savouring the wealth of detail in Alex Patrick’s scenes of the ursine family as they share Tracey Corderoy’s comical bedtime caper.