“It’s fun and we always have a laugh reading that one. It’s designed basically to annoy kids and create a dialogue between parents and kids. “A result of me being silly and wanting silly books, David Walliams has one called Boogie Bear. When asked about other bedtime stories that have proven popular in the Rees household, Jimmy said the fun stories are the best.
The book is beautifully illustrated by Briony Stewart, who created pictures that Jimmy said he’s delighted with. “It’s about a Dad who thinks he’s got bedtime sorted, completely does not, and it dissolves into ‘let’s just try anything to get them to sleep’.” “It’s one of those anti-bedtime stories, because it’s about those excuses you hear at bedtime – ‘I’m too hot’, ‘Can you sleep with me?’, ‘It’s too dark’ – it’s about all those excuses that you hear, which is real parenting.
It depicts a father, very much like Jimmy, struggling to convince his three kids to sleep. Jimmy has also been getting creative in writing his first picture book, Bedtime Sorted. “One of the comments I made in the videos was you can go to a stadium with 20,000 other people to watch 22 people play cricket on a field, but you can’t have eight people in your backyard playing backyard cricket!” Source: Official Jimmy Rees Facebook At one point there was 25,000 people allowed to go and watch the cricket but then you weren’t allowed to have eight people in your home. “Abide by all the rules, but when you look at them sometimes in contrast to what else is happening, or what other states are doing, it can seem a bit bizarre. “It was blatantly obvious making a couple of them at the start, that people needed a laugh. “Because we’ve been relatively safe then I think we can have a little laugh about it and poke fun at the snap-border closures,” Jimmy said. Jimmy shared why creating such videos as Meanwhile in Australia… that provide a laugh at some of the restrictions we’re living under, are so important at a time like a global pandemic. Three of Australia's leading epidemiologists agree the current Sydney lockdown is necessary, and without widespread vaccination the only way to stop a serious outbreak in its tracks. Australian entertainer Jimmy Rees is pouring out content – from viral social media posts, to his first picture book for kids.Īfter spending more than 10 years entertaining kids as Jimmy Giggle on ABC’s Giggle & Hoot, actor Jimmy Rees has pivoted to creating videos on social media that capture the time in which we are living through.
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