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In rhyming text, the reader is asked to mimic a variety of animal noises in preparation for a good night's sleep.

At bedtime, a young boy who cannot find his favorite book imagines the various creatures that might have taken it from him.

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.

Bear is getting ready for his long winter nap, but his friends Fox, Blue Jay, and Raccoon have other plans.

An exuberant cat and her friends get ready for bed.

In this twist on the classic poem, a little red car takes a final cruise around town before going to bed, beeping good-night to all his vehicular friends.

"Imagines who else might be awake on a sleepless night--taking young readers and listeners on an adventure through the stars and into sweet dreams"--

"Penguin and Tiny Shrimp DO NOT have a bedtime story to share with you. There are no soft beds or cozy covers here. There are fireworks! And shark-infested waters!! This book will never make you sleepy! Not al all. Not even a little..."--book jacket.

While you are sleeping, does the rest of the world sleep, too? Not everyone. In this dreamy book, which won the 2015 Silent Book Contest at the prestigious Bologna Children's Book Fair, Mariana Ruiz Johnson conjures up the ordinary yet extraordinary world outside the window of a sleeping child. Some people are working. Some people are eating. Some are walking their dogs, others are watching the stars. And some are setting off on an adventure that...