Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room : goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.

Rhyming verses describe how a variety of vehicles, from locomotives to eighteen-wheelers to automobiles, wind down for a night of rest.

Unwilling to go to bed, Jake tries to stay up all night, but he discovers that staying awake all night in a quiet lonely house is not quite the treat he imagined it would be.

A little yellow dog wants ever one more thing before he'll go to sleep.

Charlie helps Lola get ready for bed, despite the tigers, whales, and other animals that serve as obstacles.

As her mom reads a bedtime story, Lucy drifts off. But later, she awakens in a dark, still room, and everything looks mysterious. How will she ever get back to sleep?

Before going to sleep, a little rabbit says goodnight to many different things. In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room--to the picture of the three little bears sitting in chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one--he says goodnight. In this classic of modern children's literature, beloved...

When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.

"A rhyming survey of a number of animals and how they rest or go to sleep, leading up to a child's own experience of going to bed"--

"With the turn of every die-cut page, see Little Green Monster's face gradually appear. Then, as the stars come out, get ready to say good night!"--P. [4] of cover.