Bruno and the Too-Loud Stars

Does your child lie awake convinced that something outside, the moonlight, a sound, the glittering stars, is the reason sleep simply will not come? Bruno the bear knows exactly how that feels.

After the biggest yawn in the whole forest, Bruno is absolutely, positively ready for sleep. There is just one problem: those stars. Hundreds of them, twinkling, glittering, shimmering - and, in Bruno's expert opinion, simply TOO LOUD. So Bruno does what any sensible bear would do: he yanks his woolly nightcap over his nose, buries himself under the crunchiest leaf pile the forest has ever seen, and, in a moment of true genius asks Oswald the owl to ask the stars to please turn themselves down, just a tiny bit.

Nothing works. And yet somehow, by the end of the night, Bruno finds exactly what he needs.

Bruno and the Too-Loud Stars is a warmly silly bedtime picture book for children aged 3 to 5. Bruno's wonderfully absurd attempts to fix the nighttime will have little ones giggling out loud, while gently and honestly reflecting the racing, buzzing, won't-stop-wondering feeling that so many children know at bedtime. With the help of a wise and wonderfully unhurried Grandma Tortoise, the story offers children a simple, calming breathing technique wrapped inside a funny, tender adventure, something they can actually use the moment the book is closed.

Perfect for the bedtime shelf, this is a story about listening to what is really going on inside your own busy head, and discovering that the night is big enough to hold all of it. Ideal for parents, grandparents, and caregivers looking for a picture book that is both genuinely funny and quietly reassuring, one that earns its place in the nightly rotation because children ask for it again and again.