Her creatures were not just relating good stories but also help us look at normal behavior and why it is desirable or not. From 11 June 2007 until 28 March 2008, the show aired on the CBeebies channel every day, including weekends, at 6:25pm in the "Bedtime Hour" slot, in addition to earlier 11am showings on BBC Two on weekday mornings. In 2010, more new toys were released like the Igglepiggle and Upsy Daisy set that contained a copy of the Series 2 episode The Pontipines' Picnic (2008) on DVD as well as an electronic Ninky Nonk (which made the actual sounds from the Show) and a Playmat that had: the Bridge, the Tombliboo Bush (with The Tombliboos and their beds), the Gazebo and the Pinky Ponk.

Valente was born on Cinco de Mayo, 1979 in Seattle, WA, but grew up in in the wheatgrass paradise of Northern California.

Indeed, this fails as a counting primer: there are extra animals (and sometimes a grumpy T-Rex) in the backgrounds, and the next dino to join the party pokes its head into the frame on the page before. The female characters of this book are a delightful bunch because of their sheer nonconformity- they are hideous witches who delight in disgust, mutant princesses-turned-pirate, stars, snake priestesses and more. It is filmed in live action and features a mix of actors in costume, stop motion, puppetry and CGI animation. Little fans of In the Night Garden will love this beautifully illustrated picture book, filled with all their favourite characters from the show.

In 2007, Ladybird Books published a full In the Night Garden range of books, some had lifted the flap features ( The Prettiest Flower, 2007) and some had sounds from the programme ( What a Noisy Pinky Ponk! Although Palimpsest is easily as disorientating and impenetrable, at least the writing in that one was gorgeously lush. From 5 September 2009 onwards; to this day, the show remains in the 6:20pm slot and is traditionally the last full-length programme of the day before the bedtime story segment. Fans of creation myths, fractured fairy tales and stories in the key of If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler will find plenty to love in this wondrous book of interweaving tales.And when we’re, um, upstate in our house, we have a little house upstate that we’ll talk about, but I garden.

A number of fantastical creatures inhabit the pages, all interacting in some way or another, as if existing on a great web. In the Night Garden is a virtuoso feat of storytelling somewhere between Italo Calvino and Arabian Nights that has me wondering over its slyly subversive stories days after I finished.Wish I'd taken a peek at the 1 star reviews before excitedly galloping off to Kobo to get my paws on this.