Little Pip the penguin comes to terms with the presence of an Egg, which will soon hatch into a little brother or sister.

Peep is afraid of jumping off the curb, but with a little encouragement from his mother and sisters, he finally gives it a try.

When her little chicks refuse to settle down for the night, Mama decides to surprise them with an unusual request.

A boy, worried about his first day at a new school, finds himself on the wrong bus, a bus full of puppies bound for Puppy School--and discovers that despite the strange food and even weirder bathroom Puppy School is a lot of fun.

Describes, in rhymed cumulative text and illustrations, how various young animals and one small human prepare for sleep at the end of a spring day.

"A litter of baby wolf pups are born in the wild and grow during their first full lunar cycle"--

Introduces how different animals and even human babies grow from being newly-hatched or born, through being carried everywhere, to having their own special place to sleep.

Raymond and Roxy wait for Flo to give birth to her puppies.

Henrietta the elephant's serene life is disrupted when a baby goose comes to stay, but after Goose finally leaves, Henrietta no longer enjoys the quiet.

While the animals of the forest get ready to sleep a fawn asks his mother if he can stay up late like his friends.