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.

The sounds of the farm animals create a lively beat that keep Farmer Sue, the chicks, sheep, and other farm animals awake.

At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.

Against the backdrop of a beautiful Hawaiian landscape, a young girl cuddles and sleeps in her mother's lap.

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

Told in rhyme, a little boy, tucked into his bed, thinks of all the wonderful and ordinary things he will see and do tomorrow.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow a bear who would rather play with his underwear than put it on and get ready for bed.

A cave father, tired after a long day of hunting and gathering, copes with his young child who wants to be read to before going to sleep.

Against the backdrop of the dark blue night, the text explores the colors of things, both natural and manmade, that one can see in the night, before falling asleep to dream.

"For one restless pup the waking world is too full of wonder to leave behind at bedtime, until he closes his eyes and finds comfort in his dreams"--