New York Times / New York Public Library:
Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award 2022

The BRAW Amazing Bookshelf – Bologna Ragazzi Award 2022

Awarded “Best of Show 2022″ – The Year’s Most Beautiful Books (the Norwegian Designer’s Guild visual prize)

Awarded “GOLD – Best Illustrations and Design Children’s Book 2022″ – The Year’s Most Beautiful Books (the Norwegian Designer’s Guild visual prize)

Nominated for the 2021 Ministry of Culture Picture Book Prize

Nominated for the 2021 Norwegian Book Prize (The Brage Prize)

Everyone must sleep. The giraffe, the parrot, the walrus, and Bo.

The sea otter sleeps on the open sea, holding hands so they don’t drift away from each other, the meerkats sleep in clusters to keep warm. Bedtime for Bo is a book about little Bo who doesn’t want to go to bed and his mother who tells stories about how the animals sleep to guide Bo from supper, to bathing, to brushing his teeth, to bed and to finally falling asleep.

Watch the video with author Kjersti A. Skomsvold and illustrator Mari Kanstad Johnsen talking about Bedtime for Bo.

Watch the video with illustrator Mari Kanstad Johnsen talking about how she created the character design for little Bo, co-hosted by Society of Illustrators in New York City, USA.

Format: 25 cm X 34 cm
Words: 700
Pages: 72