Goodnight, Otto: Two stories in one book. Start from either cover.: 4

Are you nearly asleep?Two stories in one book. The cover you hold names the boy you lie beside: read Goodnight, Otto forward and it is Bob's night; turn it over - the back cover is Goodnight, Bob - and read it back to the front for Otto's.Two boys in a tent, one seam between them, and a silence each of them reads as an answer. Bob thinks Otto's quiet means no. Otto stayed quiet because he wanted to hear Bob fall asleep. In the exact middle of the book, on both pages at once, they say the same thing: Sorry I didn't ask.The quietest book in the series, a bedtime read-aloud for ages 4 to 8. What went wrong is never named - with children it often isn't. One question to ask at the end - why did Otto go quiet?Opens and closes on the same line: Are you nearly asleep?Book 4 of Bob & Otto, by Jesper K. Lassen. From VEN Method - social-emotional learning that builds connection and community in classrooms and at home.