A baboon rescues a star that is caught in a tree, allowing the night to end and the day to begin, and is rewarded by the sun and moon with the brilliant colors he wears today.
Rhyming text tells how Timothy Mouse has trouble getting to sleep when he hears a strange noise, with the reader being asked to complete the rhyme at various points in the story.
Sleep leads his varied parade of human and animal followers on a protected journey to his sister Dream, who then takes them to the special place where anything is possible.