‘Boring’ book by Suffolk author aims to send children to sleep

A “boring” children’s book aims to put youngsters to sleep before they reach its ending.

The book is the idea of Will Hackett-Jones, from Needham Market, Suffolk, who struggled to get his daughter Katie to sleep during a long-haul flight and so came up with the idea of telling her a dull bedtime story.

After it worked, he thought it could be an opportunity to help others, so he wrote The Old Wooden House – a story with no plot or excitement.

Now living in St Petersburg, Russia, Mr Hackett-Jones said it had successfully worked on other children, but not many knew the ending as they had already fallen asleep.