978-1-56145-518-8
BRAUN
Children’s
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SEBASTIEN BRAUN is the authorillustrator of I LOVE MY DADDY and its
companion, I LOVE MY MOMMY and
the illustrator of DIMITY DUCK (Jane
Yolen) and UP
THE
WOODEN HILL (Sam
McBratney), among others. A native
Back to Bed, Ed!
of France, Braun studied fine arts in
Strasbourg. He currently lives with
his wife in London, England.
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Ed LOVES going to bed.
But Ed HATES staying in bed.
Night after night he makes
his way down the hall—
tip toe
tip toe
—and climbs into bed with
Mom and Dad.
“Stay in your own bed, Ed!”
they tell him. “You’re a BIG
mouse now.”
How will Ed overcome his
worries so that everyone can
get a good night’s sleep?
ISBN 13: 978-1-56145-518-8
ISBN 10: 1-56145-518-0
written and illustrated by
Sebastien Braun
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by Sebastien Braun
Published by
PEACHTREE PUBLISHERS
1700 Chattahoochee Avenue
Atlanta, Georgia 30318-2112
www.peachtree-online.com
Text and illustrations copyright
© 2009 by Sebastien Braun
First published in paperback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2009
First United States edition published by Peachtree Publishers in 2010
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—
electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations
in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Illustrations created in India ink, markers, and colored pencil
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Printed and bound in October 2009 by RR Donnelley in Guangdong Province, China
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Braun, Sebastien.
Back to bed, Ed! / written and illustrated by Sebastien Braun. -- 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Ed the mouse will not sleep in his own bed, until eventually his exasperated and tired parents find a way to
keep him from joining them in the middle of the night.
ISBN: 978-1-56145-518-8 / 1-56145-518-0
[1. Bedtime--Fiction. 2. Sleep--Fiction. 3. Mice--Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.B73779Bac 2010
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2009024990
Every night Ed loved getting ready for bed.
He played games with Dad,
He had a bubbly bath,
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a story with Mom,
had a drink,
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then, all tucked in bed,
and cleaned his teeth.
brush
brush
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sleep tight!
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but Ed
Ed LOVED
going to bed…
HATED staying in bed…
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p
t
p
i
t toe
toe…
“Dad! It’s too dark in my room.”
But Ed didn’t go back to his bed,
“Back to bed, Ed,” grumbled Dad.
and Dad didn’t get much sleep that night.
The next morning Dad said,
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t
S
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bed, Ed.
But later that night,
You’re a
BIG mouse
now.”
tip toe
tip toe
“Mom! There are
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!
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“Back to bed, Ed,” groaned Mom.
But Ed didn’t go back to his bed.
Mom and Dad didn’t get much sleep that night.
The next morning they slept through the alarm.
Dad was late for work.
Ed was late for preschool.
And so it went on, night after night Ed left his bed.
Mom!
Dad!
Mom! Mom!
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MOM!
DAD!
“Back to
Bed, Ed!”
they shouted.
Mom and Dad had had enough!
The next morning they came up with a plan…
Poor Ed didn’t know what to do.
CLOSED
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sniff
sniff
That night when Ed went to Mom and Dad’s bedroom,
the door was shut. He couldn’t go in.
“T he nig
ht lig
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you’ve go
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r frien
There’s no
d.
need
to be
You’re a
scared.
big m
ouse
now.”
Dad came out.
“Come on, Ed, back to bed!” he said.
But Ed didn’t stay in bed. He got up and found
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his frog,
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his squirrel.
Now he had all
his little friends
around him.
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ared,”
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he said,
“ ’m here now.”
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that Ed alway
and everyone got
a good night ’s sleep…
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Well, not quite everyone!
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Sleep tight, Ed!