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Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.

As darkness falls parents everywhere try to get their children ready for sleep.

Mama Rabbit has a recipe for tending to her six little ones and getting them ready for bed.

A city full of parents tries to get their children to go to sleep, while the children insist on playing games.

Cat the Cat has a slumber party with her animal friends.

Rhyming text assures foals that their mothers are watching over them while they leap on a farm, frolic on a beach, gallop on a plain, and sleep in a stall.

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.

"Late at night, when all is quiet and everyone is asleep, a ninja creeps silently through the house in search of treasure."--

When Little Monkey says good night to the performers in the big top tent, he creates a circus act of his own.

At bedtime a young girl asks "Does everything in the world go to sleep?".