Alex finds it hard to go to sleep, so he starts making up excuses. After reading a bedtime story, his father suggests planning a dream that Alex would like to see when he falls asleep. Alex and his father plan the dream together.

When the monster under his bed goes fishing, Ethan interviews some substitute monsters, but finds none of them are as good as his own.

A little yellow dog wants ever one more thing before he'll go to sleep.

A mother rabbit and her young bunny are on their way home in the dark night. My mother carries me through the quiet streets, the bunny explains. Most of our neighbors are already home. The bunny can see their lights in the windows, and hear and smell what they might be doing: talking on the phone, pulling a pie out of the oven, having a party, saying goodbye. When they reach home, the father rabbit tucks the bunny into bed. But the bunny continues...

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.

Little Hoot wants to go to bed early, like all of his friends do, and he is hopping mad when Mama and Papa Owl insist that he stay up late and play.

It is time for bed, but the 5 chicks are full of energy and want to run around.

As her mom reads a bedtime story, Lucy drifts off. But later, she awakens in a dark, still room, and everything looks mysterious. How will she ever get back to sleep?

"The only thing Duncan does not like to do at bedtime is go to sleep, and he knows all the tricks for avoiding it. Until one day, his mom has had enough, and leaves Duncan in his room to figure it out on his own. Left with no other choice but to take his mother's advice, Duncan tries counting sheep to get to sleep. It all goes well for a while, but then Sheep #68 is a bit apprehensive about taking his turn ... And suddenly, the tables have turned--Sheep...

Needing to brush his teeth, a bus driver asks the reader to make sure that the pigeon goes to bed on time--but the bird has many excuses about why it should stay awake.