But no pastels, no adventures, no conversation, no trite action and unnecessary sleepy adventures. The moon and a night time setting? All here. This book is from another world when compared to so many baby books about sleep. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd I need to call in the big guns (not my lactating breasts but from literature), and pick up a book I know she loves and one that will hopefully calm him. He is standing up, growling insistently that he too must play this game, in spite of being red-eyed with fatigue. She has interpreted this instruction as “push a loud clacking wooden dragon across the hall on the hard floor outside the room Himself the Elf is in, singing ‘opera’ at the top of her voice”. I have suggested that she goes into her room and plays quietly, perhaps with her dolls or looks at a book for a few minutes while I try to ‘settle’ her brother. I try to place him in his cot for a nap during the day, which has two slight problems before it can be achieved: Himself the Elf’s reluctance is a huge barrier, and Dulcie being an enticing distraction is the other. a bit disgruntled but lies down and goes to sleep) and other times he is apoplectic with baby rage and could give Dylan Thomas’ father a personal demonstration of how to rage, rage against the dying of the light and the lowering of the blackout blind. He rails against this regime of no feeding to sleep, and I am keeping my clothes fully buttoned before he is placed in his cot. He is not, so far, a natural but progress is being made. As I mentioned previously, Himself the Elf is being trained in the art of sleep.
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