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

At bedtime, a brave child makes a monster disappear by tickling its various parts, such as its teeth so it cannot bite, and the parts transform into new objects that create a non-threatening scene.

"A growing tadpole loves his frog dad so much he never gives him a moment's peace"--

At bedtime, their father tells Grace and Walter a scary story about two children in a dark forest.

"A little boy and his best friend - an actual bear - go on a search for a teddy bear before bedtime"--

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow Sleepy Sheepy, who despite his name is not sleepy.

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

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.

Babies from all over the world get ready for bed, and say "good night" in fifteen of the world's most spoken languges.

A pigeon comes up with many reasons why he should not go to bed.