Simple, rhyming text carries a sleepy baby through such bedtime routines as rocking, reading aloud, and a kiss goodnight.

When Pig plops into his sty at bedtime, he finds Cow sleeping there and must send her off to her stall, setting off a chain reaction of animals being awakened to move to their own beds.

A gentle, dreamlike tale about heading home in the night. A mother rabbit carries her young bunny home through the dark, quiet streets. The lights are on in many of the animal neighbors' windows, so the bunny can see, hear and smell what's happening inside: a pie being pulled out of the oven, a party, a goodbye hug. When they reach home, the father rabbit tucks the bunny into bed. But the bunny continues to wonder about the neighbors' activities....

A little bunny bids goodnight to all the objects in his room before falling asleep.

In this house, when everyone stays awake at night, things get very strange, what with Mom on the roof, and Grandma playing cards with the ghost of long-dead Grandpa Paul, and even the dog and cat are acting weird; as the family's doings become more and more bizarre, the narrator starts to wonder--what on earth will happen when morning finally comes.

"The froggies do not want to sleep and refuse to head to bed; they'd rather play their accordions, go for long drives in the country, or sing opera while shooting themselves out of cannons"-- Provided by publisher.

It is time for bed, but Very Little Sleeping Beauty is not tired and does not want to go to bed.

No matter what a little boy pretends to be, cowboy, general, space cadet, robot, sea monster, or race care driver, his parents only seem to think about putting him to bed.

A beloved and very sleepy little boy resists his mother's efforts to put him to bed.