Central Kansas Library System

In this cumulative tale, a wakeful flea atop a number of sleeping creatures causes a commotion, with just one bite.

Needing to brush his teeth, a bus driver asks the reader to make sure that the pigeon goes to bed on time--but the bird has many excuses about why it should stay awake.

A Good Knight helps three little dragons who are having trouble getting to sleep.

The gorilla in the story is an unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.

Illustrations and text follow a family's morning routine from the perspective of the earliest riser in the house.

Frances finds it difficult to go to sleep with the strange noises and menacing shapes that seem to fill her room after dark.

Henry worries about what will happen to his big dog Mudge during their visit to his grandmother's house in the country.

As the sun slowly fades and the soft, silver moon rises, baby animals snuggle down to sleep while their mothers watch over them.

There are red sheep and blue sheep, wind sheep and wave sheep, scared sheep and brave sheep, but where is the green sheep? The search is on in this cozy, sheep-filled story that comes complete with sleepy rhymes and bright illustrations.

“It must be time for bed, because someone special is describing how a number of different animals go to sleep. “If I were a giant whale, / I’d sing you songs—slow epic tales. / Fin to fin, down in the deep, / We’d drift together into sleep,” the narrator explains. Bound to appeal to young animal lovers, this brief survey of animal habits shows that chicks, squirrels, giraffes, bats, otters, spiders, and gorillas all have their own special...