As crickets sing in the breeze, hunting owls watch over the bay, and sea otters doze on the tide, two children on different continents go to bed.

On the first night of winter, Little Miss Bear will not go to sleep. She simply refuses. "Winter is for sleeping," Mother Bear tells her. "But why, Mother?" Little Miss asks. "Because that's what bears do. All bears sleep, all winter long." All winter long is much too long for Little Miss Bear. She is going to miss her stars and her moon, and she is going to miss rolling on hills. Most of all, she is going to miss Mother Bear. But Mother finds a special...

Using illustrations and only two words, shows the trouble a young boy has trying to get his very playful pet gorilla to go to bed.

"A sweeter-than-pie 'bedtime recipe' helps walk baby through his bedtime routine"--

Gorillas sleep all day while people are around and then they dance all night.

Max does magic tricks to delay bedtime as long as possible.

One wintry night, a child awakens to find at his window a mysterious owl that beckons, and together the two set off on a moonlit journey to a place called Owl Ridge.

"It's bedtime for Max the kitten, but something's wrong; when Max goes to say goodnight to the moon, it's nowhere to be found! Unable to go to sleep without closing his nighttime ritual, he embarks on a journey to find the moon and say goodnight"--

A little hedgehog is fast asleep when all of a sudden, the light clicks on. He is NOT happy about being woken. Turn off that light! he demands. The light switches off. And then on again. And off. And on. Who keeps doing that?! The hedgehog bumbles around, exasperated, in a flurry of onomatopoeia GRRR!! OW! CRUNCH. BANG! as his room mysteriously goes from dark to light over and over and over again. It soon becomes clear that the cause of the light...

"It's bedtime for JJ, and there's so much to do! He needs to brush his teeth, take a bath, put on his pajamas, and listen while Mom reads him a story"