Can’t Sleep
Author: Chris Raschka
Illustrator: Chris Raschka
Publisher: Orchard Books
Recommended Age Range: 2 to 6
Don’t Blink
Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Illustrator: David Roberts
Publisher: Random House
Recommended Age Range: 3 to 7
Awards: 2019 Comstock-Gag Read Aloud Book Award Winner
I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed (Charlie and Lola Series)
Author: Lauren Child
Illustrator: Lauren Child
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Recommended Age Range: 3 to 7
Interrupting Chicken
Author: David Ezra Stein
Illustrator: David Ezra Stein
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Awards: 2011 Caldecott Honor
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Little Hoot
Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Illustrator: Jen Corace
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Recommended Age Range: 4 to 6
Awards: 2009 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens – Up to Seven (Recommended)
Nighty-Night
Author: Leslie Patricelli
Illustrator: Leslie Patricelli
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Recommended Age Range: 1 to 3
The Bear in the Book
Author: Kate Banks
Illustrator: Georg Hallensleben
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Recommended Age Range: 3 to 6
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This book covers the topic of hibernation in a bedtime story. In essence, when the bear is sleeping, the boy is awake; as the bear wakes up, the boy falls asleep. If you need a good way to make your child get veeerrryyy tired, this one works!
Awards: CCBC Choice (University of Wisconsin)