As a little bunny says goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room, the illustrations grow progressively darker.

Rhyming text assures foals that their mothers are watching over them while they leap on a farm, frolic on a beach, gallop on a plain, and sleep in a stall.

After playing all day, a baby is ready for bedtime.

A child's new patchwork quilt recalls old memories and provides new adventure at bedtime.

A mother rabbit and her young bunny are on their way home in the dark night. My mother carries me through the quiet streets, the bunny explains. Most of our neighbors are already home. The bunny can see their lights in the windows, and hear and smell what they might be doing: talking on the phone, pulling a pie out of the oven, having a party, saying goodbye. When they reach home, the father rabbit tucks the bunny into bed. But the bunny continues...

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

At bedtime, a little llama gets scared after his mother puts him to bed and turns out the light, so he goes downstairs where Mama puts it all right.

A scientist bids goodnight to all of the tools and clutter in his laboratory in this variation on Goodnight moon.

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