Illustrations and rhyming text portray a father and son pretending to be animals, from rhinos to monkeys, as they stomp and swing and roar their way to bed.

A mother tells her baby how she would care for it if it were a bunny, a kitten, or other animal infant; she then sings a lullaby about each baby animal. Includes instructions to reader to sing each lullaby to a well-known tune.

Each night before going to bed, Melinda counts the lights, from one seashell on the nursery wall to a million twinkling stars.

Three reluctant robots fight off sleep while their young caretaker does his best to get them to calm down.

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.

From the lost manuscripts of renowned children's author Brown, this bedtime story is based on the classic New England Sampler prayer, God Bless the Moon and God Bless Me. The poetic verse of the text shows a child praying for God's blessing on children in different parts of the world and themselves as the moon shines down on them all.

Mommy tells her little girl a bedtime reminiscence about the night when the daughter was a small baby and would not stop crying, despite all efforts to find out what was wrong.

Julius the monkey and his friends discover that they can have all sorts of adventures in their dreams.

A young girl tries to persuade her father that he is the one who should sleep in a special, little bed while she shares the big bed with Mommy.