- The voice
- Broad, cheerful, always mid-yawn
- Home
- The Sleepy ForestWhere the trees close their eyes one branch at a time
- Part of
- SleepThe ones whose whole job is getting you there.
- How home goes to sleep
- It goes to sleep when every secret eye closes, one after another.
The story of Billy the Kip
Billy is the big brother, taller and lankier and about half as sleepy as a Kip is supposed to be — the lazy confident grin, the neckerchief worn loose, the unhurried amble of somebody who has never once been late for anything because he has never once agreed to be anywhere. A kip is British for a nap, and Billy treats napping the way other heroes treat adventures: as a thing you can be famously, swaggeringly good at. He carries the comedy for the whole family — for the whole world, really, which is otherwise a very quiet place — and that makes him a daytime character first, because swagger belongs nowhere near a lullaby. But watch him at the Sleepy Fire when the evening comes down. The swagger goes out of the shoulders first. Then the grin softens to nothing. Then, last of all, the lids — and the neckerchief goes slack, but it never comes off.
Friends
Little KipHis little sister, who out-sleeps him without trying.
Si EstaShares the ring at the Sleepy Fire.
Also from The Sleepy Forest
Straight from the sheet
Every character is drawn once, properly, on a sheet — the same way the books were made. This is Billy the Kip’s.
In the archive
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