Max & Milo Go to Sleep!

by Heather Long, Ethan Long, Ethan Long (Illustrator)

Overview

Meet Max and Milo, two hilarious beaver brothers who make going to sleep an up-all-night adventure.

Milo can’t get to sleep: He tosses and turns; he turns and he tosses. And then finally he calls on his older brother: “MAX! WAKE UP!”

But no matter what helpful sleeping tip Max suggests, Milo turns it riotously on its head and is as far from rest as ever. Will Milo finally get to sleep? Will he ever stop driving Max crazy? Will the beaver brothers be up half the night in search of forty winks?

Insomniacs everywhere, take comfort! Max and Milo are here to solve your sleepless nights in the most hilarious of ways!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442451438
Publisher:	Aladdin
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Heather Long is the author of Max & Milo Go to Sleep and Max & Milo The Mixed-up Message. She earned a degree in Fashion Design from Florida State University and has worked as a fashion designer, a wardrobe stylist, and has even owned her own boutique. She currently lives in Florida with her husband, author and illustrator Ethan Long; her stepdaughter; and two sons.

Ethan Long is the acclaimed author and illustrator of many books for children, among them the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner Up, Tall, and High. He is also the creator of the Emmy Award–nominated animated interactive series Scribbles & Ink at PBSKids.org, which is also a digital book series on Epic.

Ethan Long is the acclaimed author and illustrator of many books for children, among them the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner Up, Tall, and High. He is also the creator of the Emmy Award–nominated animated interactive series Scribbles & Ink at PBSKids.org, which is also a digital book series on Epic.

Editorial Reviews

Brothers Max and Milo have totally different approaches to bedtime. Neat Max is calm and ready to sleep. Messy Milo is too energetic and impatient to fall asleep easily. He wakes Max repeatedly for helpful suggestions, greeting each one with a variation of "good idea, Max." Then he proceeds to make things worse. "Why don't you read a book?" is followed by a noisy search for the right title. When the lamp won't work, Max is awakened again and suggests a flashlight. Milo rigs it in a Rube Goldberg–esque contraption and proceeds to read his book amid loud bursts of laughter. And so it goes. Even with the whirring of a fan and the slurping of water, still Milo can't sleep. And of course, neither can Max. When he finally loses his temper, it falls on deaf ears--for Milo is sound asleep and Max is left wide awake in a delightfully predictable conclusion. The tale is told visually within cartoon panels of varying sizes and configurations with balloons of brief, simply stated dialogue. The cartoon elements are brightly colored and heavily outlined in black on a purple background. By the way, Max and Milo are totally goofy, big-eyed, orange beavers. Young readers will surely recognize the trials of sibling relationships in the exaggerated comical situations. Laugh-out-loud fun. (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews