sleep

After she and her father take a walk and have a bedtime snack, a little girl is finally sleepy enough to go to sleep.

Describes in verse with accompanying pictures how and where various animals sleep.

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

Russell the sheep tries all different ways to get to sleep.

A father describes for his son how each animal on the farm goes to sleep.

A sleepless city girl imagines what it would be like to get away from snoring family members and curl up alone with one's thoughts in the cool night air under wide-open skies.

Follows the movements of a variety of animals as they prepare for a period of dormancy.

A boy is so sleepy that he vows nothing will get him out of his morning bed, neither peas and beans nor the United States Marines.

Illustrations and simple text teach young readers how and why people sleep.