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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It's time for a nap but, just like stubborn toddlers everywhere, Annalise Devin McFleece won't have anything to do with bedtime. Dad tries to encourage sleepiness by pushing her around the park in her stroller. Along the way, they pass a man sitting on a bench, dog walkers walking dogs, a boy on a skateboard, kids playing ball, a girl practicing her juggling, and others. Each of them thinks that taking a nap is a great idea and if Annalise Devin McFleece...
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In the quiet of the night, a sleepy sleepy boy awakes to find the dishes, chairs, and clocks enjoying themselves. In a sleepy sleepy house everything is so sleepy - until music drifts in through an open window. Chairs begin to rock, dishes begin to dance, and a sleepy boy opens his eyes to the revelry of the once-sleepy house. Then, softly, the music drifts out, and everything is sleepy sleepy once more.
In the quiet of the night, a sleepy sleepy...
6) Shhhh
Author
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
A little girl quietly explores her sleeping house before she wakes everyone up.
7) Dormia
Author
Series
Dormia series volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After learning of his ancestral ties to Dormia, a hidden kingdom in the Ural Mountains whose inhabitants possess the ancient power of "wakeful sleeping," twelve-year-old Alfonso sets out on a mission to save the kingdom from destruction, discovering secrets that lurk in his own sleep.
10) No more yawning!
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Florence and her toy monkey Arnold try to fall asleep but Florence's big yawns keep them awake. Includes tips for falling asleep.
12) Jake stays awake
Author
Series
Jake books (Michael Wright) volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When Jake can't sleep, he climbs into bed with his parents, which now means the three of them (plus the dog!) are wide awake and in need of a good night's rest.
13) Bed hog
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The family dog spends a long night looking for a comfortable place to sleep.
16) Naptime
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"All the animals on the savannah are grumpy--no, they will not take a nap. But one little girl knows just what to do to make sure these creatures get some much-needed shut-eye"--Dust jacket flap.
17) The Sandman
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A tiny little man discovers that sand made from a dragon's scale will send him to dreamland, and begins carrying this magical sand to children each night to give them the gift of sleep.
18) Shadow Tree
Author
Series
Dormia series volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the finale to the Dormia trilogy, the dreaded nursery rhyme comes to life at last as a dark Shadow Tree threatens to cause the world's end. But who will stop it? Alfonso is now an ageling, Resuza and Hill are slaves, Bilblox appears to be a traitor, and Leif is shipwrecked on the edge of a forbidding forest. An ancient prophecy states that the Tree can be destroyed, but the price must be paid in blood, and whoever tries faces certain death. Nonetheless,...
Author
Series
Chengdu (Barney Saltzberg) volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
High in the trees in the middle of the night, all of the pandas are sleeping except for Chengdu, who tries everything and still cannot fall asleep until he finds the perfect spot--atop his brother, Yuan.
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