5 More Sleeps ’til Christmas

Fallon’s holiday picture book captures the delicious agony of a child counting down the nights until Christmas, too excited to sleep. Told in rhyme and illustrated by Rich Deas, it follows a boy through the last five sleeps, each night’s rituals and daydreams building the anticipation. Warmer and more narrative than his baby books, it is a bedtime read for the season, made to be pulled out every December as the countdown begins.