This non-fiction book for very beginning readers uses a touch of humor as it shows how different animals sleep. From pigs to puppies to penguins, the book offers glimpses of animals as they live, play, and sleep. In the end, the book even has the reader's talking about falling asleep themselves! Rhymes and repeating text help make the reading fun and easy for the child.

"Drowsy animal babies snuggle in trees, caves, weeds, and on waves, but one sleepyhead isn't yet in his bed"--

At bedtime a young girl asks "Does everything in the world go to sleep?"

"It's daytime and night animals are all sleeping soundly. Well, all except for Possum. Skunk tries to be helpful, pointing out a cave, then a tree, then a den. But the more places Possum tries to sleep, the more night animals he wakes up. Will Bear, Wolf, Skunk, and Possum ever find a good day's rest?"--

"Mama and Mommy would like Sweet Pea to settle into bed, but it's not quite time. Even though the bed is fluffy, it's not as snuggly as curling up like a pig in the mud, or as spacious as sleeping in the wide ocean like a blue whale. It's not as fun as sleeping high up in a tree like a koala, or hanging upside down like a bat. And it's definitely not as relaxing as sleeping standing up, like an emperor penguin. But after mimicking all the ways different...