Froggy finds many ways to delay bedtime.

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

Maggie wants to get rid of the monster that visits her room every night and accepts her mother's suggestion to simply ask the monster what it wants.

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.

As crickets sing in the breeze, hunting owls watch over the bay, and sea otters doze on the tide, two children on different continents go to bed.

When bedtime comes Little Bear is afraid of the dark, until Big Bear brings him lights and love.

Gabby convinces Granny to leave Sleepytown and stay up all night in a new place, but before long, a contagious yawn takes control.

A young child is encouraged to go to sleep by the thought of everyone else sleeping, from teacher to baker to postman.

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...