"A cozy story for little ones who try their best to stay awake, with a story within a story within a story! This should ease all cubs, hoglets, and children off to Dreamland."
——Carla Kozak, San Francisco Public Library

★Simplified Chinese rights, Complex Chinese rights and Azerbaidzhan rights have been sold.
★A bedtime book that parents and children can't bear to read over and over again. A sweet little story with a happy ending. What’s special is that there is another story hidden in the story.
★Award-winning illustrator Julie Downing used her unique watercolor style to create a warm night world for children, where two lovely children and their mother live. What is their unique bedtime ritual?
★Let all the children love to sleep.

Like most children, Sami puts off going to bed for as long as possible. But reading a story about Little Bear's bedtime ritual inspires Sammy, just as the young reader will be inspired by this soothing story and clever book-within-a-book concept. A bedtime book that both parent and child will relish reading one more time, Don't Turn the Page! features a surprise ending that reinforces the sense that it's bedtime for everyone.

Rachelle Burk is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, & poetry for children, and regular contributing writer for Scholastic Science World classroom magazine.

Julie Downing was born in Denver, Colorado, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. Noted for rich, jewel like watercolor illustrations, she has illustrated over 45 picture books.
Julie's work has been featured at The Society of Illustrator's Original Art Show in NYC and has been exhibited at galleries throughout the United States and England.She has won numerous awards for her work, including a Parent's Choice Award, the New York Public Library Best Books Award, APAAL Best Illustrated Book, and the Irma Black Silver Medal. She was selected to appear in Talking with Artists Too, a book about 12 of the nation’s best Children’s’ Book Illustrators.
Julie also teaches watercolor and Children’s Book Illustration to both graduate and undergraduate students at the Academy of Art University.