I am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed (Charlie and Lola)

Lauren Child’s popular sibling duo Charlie and Lola have a place in many young children’s affections. In this book, Charlie has a challenge persuading his little sister to go to bed as she explains that she simply isn’t sleepy, and will “probably still be perky at 13 o’clock”. She tries many unconventional avoidance tactics, including trying to convince Charlie that she needs to make pink milk for the tigers in the kitchen, help a lion to clean his teeth and shoo a whale down the plughole. Lola eventually goes to bed, but before she falls asleep she informs Charlie that there is a hippopotamus in HIS bed!