When she discovers a crocodile hiding under her bed, Sophie enjoys a night of playing with her new friend.

Bertie, a young hippopotamus, has trouble going to bed at night.

"When a boy who routinely refuses to go to bed gets a talkative stuffed animal, the tables are turned!"--

Arathusela does not like to go to bed. But one night she has an idea. "Why don?t you let me put YOU to sleep for a change?" she says. "Fine," says her father. "Marvelous," says her mother. But after her parents beg to stay up for just a few more minutes, argue about the book they will hear, and ask for just one more good-night kiss, Arathusela gets the feeling that this job might not be as easy as she thinks. Joan Levine?s witty, spot-on story and...

A little girl finds so many things to do before she is ready for bed that she is the last of her family to fall asleep.

A child counts down to sleep by observing the world around, from ten silent houses to one lone swan.

Little Hoot wants to go to bed early, like all of his friends do, and he is hopping mad when Mama and Papa Owl insist that he stay up late and play.

At bedtime Princess Poppy decides that, instead of going to bed, she is going to hide, trying several hiding places before finding the perfect one.

At bedtime, a child dreams of saying goodnight to the world.

In rhyming text a little boy, home from a game, bids goodnight to all the sights and sounds of a baseball game.