Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights
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32 pages
ISBN 978-0-9558620-9-0
Published 2012
Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights is a book for ‘children’ in which Jake & Dinos Chapman re-imagine the Victorian morality tale. While their immorality tales are wrought from the innocent language of the children’s colouring book, the messages they sagely pass on to our younger folk are far from the saccharin coated yarns familiar to the genre. The scenes these tales depict are vivid and troubling, and will have dramatic consequences for the nocturnal serenity of the reader’s children…
Text and artworks created by Jake & Dinos Chapman exclusively for this book.
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Probably the only ‘children’s’ book unsuitable for children, ‘Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights’, is filled with just about every shock the brothers can muster.
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