The children's book that makes digital infrastructure visible.
About the Book.
Where the Internet Goes to Sleep is a published children's book written by Willow Williams and illustrated by Lucile Merveille.
It introduces children aged 5–11 to the hidden world behind the internet — data centres, servers, cooling systems, power resilience, and the engineers who keep everything running. Through the story of Laila and her cloud companion Fluffbit, children discover that the internet is not magic. It is real. It is physical. And it matters.
Meet the Characters
Laila — a curious, imaginative child who wants to understand the world around her. Laila is the guide through every page, asking the questions children everywhere are thinking but have never had answered.
Fluffbit — a cloud who holds a secret. Fluffbit is not floating in the sky. Fluffbit lives inside a server. And that changes everything.
Why This Book Exists
Most children are taught to use the internet. Very few are taught to understand it.
Infrastructure literacy — knowing what the cloud actually is, where data lives, who looks after it, and why it matters — is not part of the national curriculum. But it is part of how children become informed digital citizens.
Where the Internet Goes to Sleep is the first step in that conversation. Simple enough for a five year old. Rich enough for an eleven year old. And — as parents consistently tell us — genuinely eye-opening for adults too.
What Makes It Different
Curriculum-aligned — mapped to KS1 and KS2 Computing. Suitable for classroom use and home reading.
Neuroinclusive design — printed in OpenDyslexic font to support children with dyslexia and other reading differences.
Professionally illustrated — original hand-drawn illustrations by Lucile Merveille bring Laila, Fluffbit and the data centre world to life.
Published IP — independently published through ThreadPoint Stories, the book is available globally on Amazon.
How It's Used
Where the Internet Goes to Sleep is the narrative anchor for every ThreadPoint workshop. Every session begins with the story. Every child takes a copy home. Every school that participates receives a copy for their permanent library.
The book is also available to purchase independently — for classrooms, home libraries, school reading schemes, and anyone who wants to start the infrastructure literacy conversation early.
Get Your Copy
Available globally on Amazon in both hardback and paperback.
Also available for schools and libraries via ThreadPoint workshop programmes. Contact us to find out more.