jibberwillies at night

Katie Honors is a champion at bedtime. She curls up with a book and her dog Vanilla, and goes to sleep. But sometimes the Jibberwillies come. They are loud! They are noisy! They fly throught the air! The Jibberwillies are scary! Luckily, Katie's mom knows what to do.
This warm and imaginative book is perfect for sharing with anyone who wants to give their nighttime fears a proper send-off.

Katie Honors is a champion at bedtime. She curls up with a book and her dog Vanilla, and goes to sleep.

But sometimes the Jibberwillies come.

They are loud! They are noisy!
They fly throught the air!
The Jibberwillies are scary!

Luckily, Katie's mom knows what to do.

This warm and imaginative book is perfect for sharing with anyone who wants to give their nighttime fears a proper send-off.


"Exuberant and self-proclaimed "really happy kid" Katie Honors, the tantrum-thrower from Sometimes I'm Bombaloo , now explains what happens when she gets an attack of night terrors, otherwise known as "the jibberwillies." When her own coping mechanisms don't quite work, her mother comes to the rescue by suggesting she catch the jibberwillies in a bucket. As they refine the strategy together, Katie finds the team approach both calming and empowering. Children (and parents) are certain to pick up that same vibe and will come away with new approaches for facing their own anxieties. Katie's personality leaps off the page via Vail's evocative language ("My friends yell 'Katie! Katie!' as soon as they see me.... I sometimes twirl instead of walking") and Heo's bright and kicky mixed-media compositions. Playful arrangement and coloring of the type and a variety of perspectives and patterns in the art lend a sense of fun and movement to the overall design." Starred review: Publishers Weekly The effusive heroine of Sometimes I'm Bombaloo(2002) returns in this appealing look at confronting night-time fears. Most of the time, Katie Honors is a happy kid. She wakes with a smile, is known to twirl when she walks, and doesn't even mind making room for her little brother when her family cuddles on the couch. But at night, after Katie has put on her pajamas and curled up in bed, the trouble starts. Jibberwillies. Awful, noisy, flying creatures that neither bravery nor nice thoughts of ice cream can stop from going jibber in the night. The oddball monsters will look familiar to fans of Bombaloo, as will Heo's distinctive mixed-media compositions, featuring bold colors and simple, expressive lines, particularly apt at showing Katie's fear and uncertainty when she teams up with her mother to send the jibberwillies packing. While Vail ventures into some well-trod bedtime-book territory here, Katie's narration is fresh and compelling, and her mother's clever solution to calming Katie's fright-collecting the jibberwillies in a bucket and tossing them out a window-provides readers young and old with an excellent model for dealing with their own anxieties. - Kristen McKulski "Starred review, Bulletin"

"Exuberant and self-proclaimed "really happy kid" Katie Honors, the tantrum-thrower from Sometimes I'm Bombaloo , now explains what happens when she gets an attack of night terrors, otherwise known as "the jibberwillies." When her own coping mechanisms don't quite work, her mother comes to the rescue by suggesting she catch the jibberwillies in a bucket. As they refine the strategy together, Katie finds the team approach both calming and empowering. Children (and parents) are certain to pick up that same vibe and will come away with new approaches for facing their own anxieties. Katie's personality leaps off the page via Vail's evocative language ("My friends yell 'Katie! Katie!' as soon as they see me.... I sometimes twirl instead of walking") and Heo's bright and kicky mixed-media compositions. Playful arrangement and coloring of the type and a variety of perspectives and patterns in the art lend a sense of fun and movement to the overall design."

Starred review: Publishers Weekly

The effusive heroine of Sometimes I'm Bombaloo(2002) returns in this appealing look at confronting night-time fears. Most of the time, Katie Honors is a happy kid. She wakes with a smile, is known to twirl when she walks, and doesn't even mind making room for her little brother when her family cuddles on the couch. But at night, after Katie has put on her pajamas and curled up in bed, the trouble starts.
Jibberwillies. Awful, noisy, flying creatures that neither bravery nor nice thoughts of ice cream can stop from going jibber in the night. The oddball monsters will look familiar to fans of Bombaloo, as will Heo's distinctive mixed-media compositions, featuring bold colors and simple, expressive lines, particularly apt at showing Katie's fear and uncertainty when she teams up with her mother to send the jibberwillies packing. While Vail ventures into some well-trod bedtime-book territory here, Katie's narration is fresh and compelling, and her mother's clever solution to calming Katie's fright-collecting the jibberwillies in a bucket and tossing them out a window-provides readers young and old with an excellent model for dealing with their own anxieties.

- Kristen McKulski
"Starred review, Bulletin"