Bedtime Stories

A diverse group of babies from around the world get ready for bed and say good night in fifteen different languages. Includes pronunciation guide at back of book.

Every day before Little Fish goes to bed, he says good night to all his friends–Red Fish and Blue Fish, Eye Fish and Sky Fish, Bumble Fish and Upside-Down Fish–before cuddling up with Mommy Fish for a long night’s sleep.

One night, just before bedtime… Milo read a book about a monster under the bed. Milo should not have read that book. Monsters under the bed are scary, but luckily, Milo’s best friend, Mel, knows just what to do–scare the monster more than the monster scares you!

In this gentle bedtime story, a child aboard a sleeper train in India reflects on all the places she’s slept before–hoping the comforting memories will help her finally fall asleep.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow Sleepy Sheepy, who despite his name is not sleepy.

It’s bedtime. Hedgehog, Fox, Donkey, Pelican and Crocodile are so tired! But Seal needs to use the bathroom–slip slap slip, out the door. Crocodile forgot to clean those sharp teeth–shlurf shlurf, out the door. And Pelican is thirsty…One by one the animals climb out of bed, until everyone is piled in the child’s bed for a last goodnight kiss. Oof, that’s a heavy pile! What happens now? Susanne Strasser’s snowballing animal stories that children love are bestsellers in multiple languages. This funny in-and-out-of-bed story ends with a timely fart joke to start the fun all over again.

ôma cistomâwasowin pêyakwan mêkiwin kâ-kî-miyikocik âniskô-wâhkômâkana awâsisak ka-miyohkwâmicik êkwa ka-kiskisomikocik kâ-isi-wâhkôhtamihk askiy.

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