This Is The Way We Go To Sleep: Good Night, Good Night, by Sandra Boynton

THE SUN HAS SET NOT LONG AGO.

A boat, not unlike an ark, loaded with a variety of animals, from bunnies to bear, puppy to elephant, sails by in the setting sun.

NOW EVERYBODY GOES BELOW.

The sun is gone, but there are still duties to be done.

The animals take a bath, dry off, and hang their towels neatly on the wall. Rhino leads the way with pajamas for all.

WITH SOME ON TOP AND SOME BENEATH

THEY BRUSH AND BRUSH AND BRUSH THEIR TEETH.

It's up a deck to huff and puff with lifts, sit-ups, rope jumping, and toe touching.

And down again to go to bed, some at the foot, some at the head.

It's "Good night, off with the light!"

THE SEA IS DEEP--

And so is their sleep!

In her 1982 revision of this longer version of The Going-To-Bed Book, Sandra Boynton's just-published Good Night, Good Night: The original longer version of The Going to Bed Book (Little Simon, 2021 ed.), the routines and rituals of bedtime provide the plot, as author-illustrator Boynton's charming and humorous illustrations feature double-page spreads with her jolly and idiosyncratic crew preparing to go gently into that good night. As always, Sandra Boynton's distinctive soothing and sweet bedtime books are in a class by themselves.