bedtime

Simple rhymes and quilt-like paintings illustrate bedtime scenes for each letter of the alphabet.

A collection of poems, both silly and soothing, that focus on bedtime, such as "Goodnight Kisses, " "How to Humiliate the Boogeyman, " and "Where Am I When I Dream?".

A parent's teasing assurances that ghosts, witches, vampires, and other creatures are no danger fuel the imagination of a child in the dark.

In this cumulative story, a little boy overcomes his fear of the squeaky noise his door makes when his grandmother closes it each night before he goes to sleep.

A sleepy father gets cocoa and cookies and a sleepy mother sings to her children just before they all go to sleep in an old bedroom slipper.

In this cumulative, rhyming story, a young boy takes a nighttime ride from the distant stars in the Milky Way galaxy to his cozy bed, as his blanket becomes a rocket, a plane, and a skateboard.

A young vampire, unable to sleep, tries to figure out whether it is the howling of a werewolf, the clacking of skeletons, or something else that is keeping him awake.

It is Bear's bedtime when winter arrives, but his friends are laughing, playing, and calling him to come out and join them out in the snow.

Ed the mouse will not sleep in his own bed, until eventually his exasperated and tired parents find a way to keep him from joining them in the middle of the night.

In a reversal of the classic bedtime story, a child helps her mommy get ready for bed, enduring pleas for one more book, five more minutes of play time, and a glass of water before the lights go out.