"A young boy and his father use their imaginations before bedtime to transform an ordinary laundry basket into a variety of transportation vehicles"--

The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous and edgy to tenderly touching. In "Damascus," a mother fears her teenage son is making the same youthful mistakes she did, only to realize that he is wiser than she had understood. In "Twist and Shout," Ericka's elderly father mistakes his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew. In "Turn Back, Turn Back," a bedtime story coupled with a receipt for a Starbucks...

With weird swamp noises swirling around him, Beak the Bird cannot get any sleep until his friend Ally the alligator shows him where the racket is coming from.

A Good Knight helps three little dragons who are having trouble getting to sleep.

Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...

"Reginald "Reggie" Guinn is a kid penguin who is equal parts playful, curious and cantankerous, and gets into everyday adventures at school, home, and his neighborhood"--

To help her fall asleep, the author tells his daughter a bedtime story from his mischievous childhood when he bought magic beans with his mother's grocery money.

When papa's seven little mouse boys ask for a bedtime story, papa does even better than that...he tells seven stories, one for each boy!

"A dusky rural landscape and comforting bedtime routine draw a child closer to sleep in this illustrated lullaby board book."--

Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.