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The Bed Habits of Animals

Some animals sleep standing up. Some sleep with half a brain awake. Some nap 250 times a day. Bedtime in the animal kingdom is far stranger than bedtime at your house.

Explore the Book Discover Animal Sleep Facts
Front cover of Sleep, Nap, Snooze: A Storybook About the Bed Habits of Animals by Mic Schut, showing a brightly painted elephant.Back cover of Sleep, Nap, Snooze with a painted elephant and the words Wild Facts About Sleep.

Bedtime looks very different in the animal kingdom

Sleep, Nap, Snooze mixes big, hand-painted, graffiti-bright artwork with real animal sleep facts. Every spread pairs a wildly colorful creature with a true fact about how it rests — a bedtime story that also happens to teach.

Meet the Sleepers

Six of the snoozers you'll meet inside the book. Tap one to learn how it really sleeps.

Discover More Animal Sleep Facts

Inside the Book

Book spread titled Winning At Waketime showing a blue painted elephant on a graffiti wall.

Winning At Waketime

Every page blends original artwork, photography, collage and digital techniques into one colorful, layered world.

Back cover artwork of Sleep, Nap, Snooze featuring a rainbow-painted elephant head.

The Story Behind the Book

If getting a child to sleep can be an adventure…

…how on earth do animals do it? That one bedtime question sent Mic Schut down a long, strange research rabbit hole: elephants that barely sleep, dolphins that rest half a brain, ants that nap hundreds of times a day.

The notes became sketches. The sketches became spray paint and collage. And the whole curious pile became Sleep, Nap, Snooze.

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Who Should Snooze in Book 2?

Book two is still wide awake, and readers get to help fill it. Soon you'll be able to vote for the animals you most want painted and researched next.

Voting opens soon — check back!