[NEW YORK, NY] The world can feel like a big, scary place — because it is — and especially to children — because they’re small, innocent, and don’t know anything. Who shall teach them the ways of life? Their parents, of course, with the aid of helpful, allegorical story collections. Keep those kids safe, sound, and away from the metaphorical hot stoves of existence with Humorist Books’ Sleep, Little One: Bedtime Tales for Tiny Troublemakers (ISBN: 978-1-954158-37-5) by Brian Dunn.

With Dunn’s mock-storybook collection, parents can put their children’s fears of the mundane, unknown, dangerous to rest — a little, maybe. Accompanied by classically fantastical and engrossing art from illustrator Lucy Budd, kids will learn all about how to:

• Keep the hungry “Car Wash Kraken” at bay
• Dodge today’s virulent “Antibiotic-Resistant Cooties” strains
• Ignore Mommy’s “Magical Bottle Goblins”
• Meet Daddy’s “Fit, New Workout Pal”

And much, much more.

“I don’t envy kids today, what with the litany of anxieties they lug around. Behind every valid fear lie scores of terrifying, imagined ones, and using the framework of bedtime stories to explore childhood’s inherent insecurities was as fun as it sounds,” says Dunn, the author of Fringe Elements and frequent contributor to McSweeney’s and Splitsider. “I fully expect reports of night terrors in prepubescent children to spike dramatically.”

[Click here to download a free copy of Sleep Little One]

To request a physical review copy of Sleep, Little One: Bedtime Tales for Tiny Troublemakers (ISBN: 978-1-954158-37-5), or to plan an event featuring Brian Dunn or Lucy Budd, please contact Humorist Books: brian@humoristbooks.com