Books

For Infants (birth-17 months)

• Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Baby Hearts and Baby Flowers by Remy Charlip
• All on a Sleepy Night by Shutta Crum
• Time For Bed by Mem Fox
• Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
• Ten Sleepy Sheep by Phyllis Root
• Baby's Boat by Jeanne Titherington
• Peek-a-book : a lift-the-flap bedtime rhyme by Lee Wardlaw
• Where does the brown bear go? by Nicki Weiss

For Toddlers (18 months-3 years)

• Good Night, Baby Bear by Frank Asch
• How Many Kisses Do You Want Tonight? by Varsha Bajaj
• Anything for You by John Wallace
• Is it Time? by Marilyn Janovitz
• Bouncing on the Bed by Jackie Koller
• Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathman
• Hush-a-bye Babies by Janet Slingsby
• Bedtime by Elsa Warnick

For Preschoolers (4-5 years)

• Good Night, Sleep Tight, Little Bunnies by Dawn Apperley
• And if the Moon Could Talk by Kate Banks
• Hushabye, Bearcub by Strawberrie Donnelly
• Good Night, Copycub by Richard Edwards
• My Favorite Bear by Andrea Gabriel
• All the Way to Morning by Marc Harshman
• Are You Ready for Bed? by Jane Johnson
• Going to Sleep on the Farm by Wendy Cheyette Lewison
• Good Night Engines by Denise Dowling Mortensen
• Rabbit's Bedtime by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

Poems/Fingerplays

• Big Yellow Moon
• Good Night!
• Sleeping Time
• Stars
• To Bed, To Bed
• Too Many in the Bed

Songs

Find many bedtime themed songs in these and other lullaby CDs from the Canton Public Library

• Dreamytime songs
• Songs for Rest Time
• Go to sleep Jeff! by The Wiggles
• Good Night: enchanting story visualizations with sleepytime music by Jim Weiss

Activities

• Flashlight Tag — Turn out all the lights in the house and play flashlight hide and seek. Cover the windows and turn out the lights in your house and have fun!
• Graphs — Graphing is an easy way to tie in math to "bedtime." Create a chart with headings for things that children do to get ready for bed, such as "brush teeth" "brush your hair" "get on pajamas" and so on. Only list 3-4 different ones. Write (or have children write) their names on a small sentence strip or index card and have them put their name under what they do first. Which one has the most? Which one has the least?
• PJ Match — Make several sets of pajama shaped cutouts. Let your children match them by shape, color, size, or anything else they want to