When children are fast asleep, some people are hard at work keeping the city safe and clean, and when daylight comes they go home to sleep.

On the eve of his great operatic triumph "Don Giovanni," Mozart looks back on the events of his life that led to this moment.

While walking in the woods on a winter day, a little boy finds a blue feather and gives it to his mother.

"Hello, sun! Goodbye, night! Sunrise chill, pale dawn light. Julie Downing’s signature artwork washes each page in a symphony of blue, green and purple foliage; the sky shifts from amber to pink, buttercup-yellow, or darkest indigo. Sleepy bears, rabbits, deer, and other animals rise from cozy dens and burrows to greet the day"--

The owner of a cat, dog, bird, ape, frog, elk, deer, and a multitude of other animals finds new homes for all but one.

In eighteenth-century Korea, after Sang-hee's father injures his ankle, Sang-hee attempts to take over the task of lighting the evening fire which signals to the palace that all is well. Includes historical notes.

A collection of simple retellings of stories from both the Old and New Testaments.

Mr. Griggs so loves his work at the post office that he thinks of it all the time and everything reminds him of it.

While painting pictures for the royal family, plain Cabbage falls in love with the prince and decides to use her magic paintbrush to increase her chances with him.

When a marauding cat threatens the fat carp in the pond of the Summer Palace in Peking, only the wise fish Wo Ti knows how they can save themselves.