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By (author) Aaron Huw

Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2025: Picture Book Category
Included in the best new picture books and novels round-up in The Guardian, 2025.

Whether you are a vampire or a ghost, a werewolf or a yeti, a bedtime routine is absolutely essential for a good night”s sleep. ? Adults and children will fall in love with Blob and the whole cast of monsters as they brush their teeth, put on their pyjamas, and get tucked up in bed.

Warm, loving and slimy, this hilarious rhyming picture book is the perfect addition to bedtime reading, ending with a kiss and sweet dreams for all.

“All creatures grim and evil,

under the tired sun, are settling

down – and so must you, my

horrible little one.”

“This rhyming bedtime picture book is a witty, tender mix of the adorable and the appalling.” – The Guardian

“Huw Aaron takes the traditional bedtime story and flips it on its head with this lovely rhyming tale that understands you”re never too young for a bit of gentle irony. A perfect bedtime story for the disgusting blob in your life.” – The Times

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Welsh author, illustrator and graphic novelist Aaron has flipped the traditional bedtime story on its head to create a delightfully different rhyming tale about child monsters and villains settling down for the night. But, rather than causing a fright, it brims with just the right amount of loving cosiness to help mini humans drift off.

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Huw Aaron”s witty rhyming verse takes readers through the evening routine of the blob and other “creatures grim and evil”… The bright illustrations burst with amusing details and the book has a sweet overriding message that little monsters the world over – no matter how slimy – crave the same loving cuddles at bedtime

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Featuring a catalogue of sleepy monsters from cyborg to yeti, winding down alongside the cute little blob of the title, this rhyming bedtime picture book is a witty, tender mix of the adorable and the appalling.

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Very clever, strangely moving and brilliant to read aloud , this picture book will become a bedtime staple

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This perfect bedtime story sees a monster parent snuggling down its ”Disgusting Blob” child by recounting how all the other evil creatures are settling down for the night… with superb illustrations and silly verse”

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A monstrously original twist on a bedtime story… Full of reassurance, humour and brilliant illustrations

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Witty and wholly original … this (is) a delicious monster-y tale

Biographical note:
Huw Aaron is a Welsh cartoonist, author and illustrator, and the creator of the bestselling Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob and Unfairies, both of which were shortlisted for the Waterstones Children”s Book Prize 2026 – a historic achievement. After a short and fairly hopeless career in finance, Huw found a niche as a magazine cartoonist, producing joke cartoons for, among others, Private Eye, Prospect and The Spectator. Huw then started making comics and illustrating children’s books in his native Welsh. Since 2013, he has written or illustrated over 60 Welsh-language books, and has won numerous awards including the 2023 Tir na n-Og and Welsh Children”s Book of the Year prizes. He was also founding editor of the comic Mellten, and presented the weekly art programme Cer i Greu on S4C. His newest stories are Monkeypig and Unfairies: Death by Toad. Huw’s harshest critics – and his best friends – are his wife Luned and their two daughters.