A little boy cannot sleep when a moose in a dress casts its sinister shadow on his bedroom wall, but when the apparition stops appearing he finds that he misses it.
Kate is frightened that things like giants might sneak through the attic door into her new room, until she learns that what she can think up she can think out too.
When no one seems to understand Sofia's fear of the shadow-monsters that she sees in the dark, her heart breaks and she goes to see the Heartmender for help.
Each of four beloved teddy bears fears something at bedtime, and as their little master explains away each fear, he makes the nighttime worry-free for himself, too.