While You Are Sleeping — Alexis Deacon

A wonderfully warm and atmospheric book, suffused with magic -- from the author of the popular and acclaimed Beegu.

We are the bedside toys.
Do you ever stop to think what we go through,
night after night, while you are sleeping?

Every day they sit as still as stone but at night the bedside team comes to life -- scaring away bad dreams, squishing the bed bugs flat and even checking for monsters. It's hard work, but in the morning, when the child awakes, the bedside toys are richly rewarded.