Will this book REALLY send your kids to sleep? Four exhausted mothers put to the test the surprise bestseller that promises results in minutes

  • The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep uses words that make children tired
  • Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin's book topped the Amazon bestsellers list
  • Four mothers test it out on their young children for FEMAIL
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A book that promises to get children to sleep has become a surprise bestseller as exhausted mothers raced to buy the paperback or upload a copy via the internet.
The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep, by Swedish psychologist Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin, promises to have a child nodding off in no time, with a perfect combination of sentence structure and hypnotic words.
But does the 26-page story, which is being hailed as a godsend, really work? Here four mothers put it to the test for FEMAIL: