Books like Let's Go Home, Little Bear / Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?
By Martin Waddell
For the kid who needs one more reassurance before lights-out, this is the walk home that ends exactly the way it should — with someone bigger right beside you. Hushed, snowy, and comforting, with a quiet nighttime chill that resolves into warmth.
A young bear finds a cozy new cave all his own and settles in to spend the night there — but under the big moon, he starts wondering if Big Bear is lonely without him.
During a rumbling thunderstorm, three young bears creep one by one into Bear and Mrs. Bear's bed, each certain monsters are lurking outside — until even Bear starts to wonder.
On a stormy night on Plum Street, a little bear cub named Sam stalls his bedtime with a story, a tucking-in, and warm milk — but something important is still missing.
A little bear cub coughs HCK HCK! right at bedtime, and Mrs. Bear tries syrup, comfort, and quiet care to see him through the cold night.
A tiny hedgehog named Bean spends her days with Grandma, in ten small stories full of ordinary magic — losing a bad mood in a meadow, giant strawberries, and a ghost that's really just Bean in a sheet.
A baby llama, tucked into bed by his mama, starts to worry the moment she heads downstairs — his whimpers building into full-blown hollers until she returns just in time.
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."
A little bear can't fall asleep because he's afraid of the dark, so Big Bear tries lantern after lantern before finally showing him the moon and stars outside the cave.
A young rabbit named Buttermilk walks home in the dark, terrified she sees a dragon, a bear, and a banshee lurking in the shadows around her.
A gentle, repeating question moves through the animal world — from kangaroos to lions to dolphins — showing every baby, a joey, a cub, a calf, has a mother who loves it.
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.
As night falls across the wild, hippos, leopard cubs, giraffes, and monkeys each yawn, stretch, and settle in close with their families for sleep.
