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

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.

Even after a story, being tucked in, and warm milk, Sam is not ready to go to sleep until his mother kisses him good-night.

Against the backdrop of the dark blue night, the text explores the colors of things, both natural and manmade, that one can see in the night, before falling asleep to dream.

"When a boy can't find his favorite stuffed bunny, he heads into the woods to find it" -- Provided by publisher.

A young bulldozer struggles to fall asleep.

Sam can't sleep without his beloved dog, Fred. Sam knows Fred is afraid of the dark, of the monster that lives in the closet and of the giant toad that lurks downstairs.

"This is the story of Nellie Bee Nightly, who is not tired at all. And swears she never will be! The popcorn is too pooped to pop, and the nightstand is too tired to stand up straight and must lie down--but Nellie? Nope, she's wide awake, and not ready for bedtime AT ALL. Instead, she gives her goldfish a mustache and hangs her bed from the ceiling so that she can install a swimming pool in her room. Nellie, after all, went to sleep last night, and...

At the end of the day a little boy falls asleep as his mama reads about a bear hibernating.

A boy's hamster leads an increasingly large group of hamsters on a tour of the boy's house, while his father counts down the minutes to bedtime.