Books like Is It Bedtime Yet Wibbly Pig?
By Mick Inkpen
For the kid who suddenly finds forty urgent reasons not to go to sleep, Wibbly Pig makes bedtime stalling feel funny instead of frustrating. Cozy, playful, and gently winding down toward sleep.
A young badger tucked in for the night keeps finding reasons to get out of bed — a glass of milk, a favorite doll, worries about tigers and cracks in the ceiling — testing her patient parents one request at a time.
A boy sets off to buy simple things like a carrot, a hat, and a cake, but every shop hands him the wrong item entirely — a growing parade of mixed-up animals instead.
Five little puppies dig a hole under the fence to explore the wide world, but the pokiest, slowest puppy keeps falling behind — and keeps missing out on dessert.
A drowsy dog just wants a quiet nap, but a bouncy little duckling named Zachary Quack keeps trailing after him, pittery-pattering and pestering him to play.
A snowy little one gets a big, soft bed for winter nights and can't help jumping, jumping, jumping on it — even though Mommy says the bed is for sleeping, not bouncing.
Two dog best friends, one big and one little, do everything differently — different beds, different chairs, different everything — until a bedtime mix-up puts their opposite ways to the test.
A boatload of animals heads below deck at sunset for a bedtime routine — scrubbing in one big tub, brushing their teeth, doing exercises, and rocking together until every last one drifts off to sleep.
Five monkey siblings are supposed to be asleep, but they keep sneaking in one more book (or three), until Mama finally takes their books away and discovers a bedtime habit of her own.
A barnyard family of animals — roosters, cows, horses, goats, and a pink piglet learning to squeal — plays through a full day and settles down together as night falls.
As night falls, sleepy bunnies, sleepy birds, and sleepy children everywhere settle down, one by one, into the quiet stillness of sleep.
As night falls, a raccoon, a doe, a rabbit, a field mouse, and a little boy each get tucked in and wonder if they'll be safe — and every parent answers, "I am here."
On a rainy afternoon, a snoozing granny, a dreaming child, a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, and a slumbering mouse pile onto one cozy bed — until a wakeful flea bites, and the whole sleepy stack comes tumbling down.
