Once upon a time there was a little boy who didn’t want to go to bed. His mother, who did want to go to bed, read him a story about a very sleepy bunny. The little boy soon closed his eyes and fell ...

At the end of a long day, there's a phrase that parents of small children can come to dread hearing: "Read me a story!" Though bedtime reading can be fun, reading the same book over and over and over ...

Saying good night and saying goodbye—these can be hard things to do. In a striking picture book from Norway, “Bedtime for Bo,” a mother gets her small son to settle down for the night not by ...

Looking for good bedtime stories for kids? I’m a huge advocate of reading bedtime stories to kids. And in this list of children’s picture books, I’m sharing meta stories — stories about bedtime!

The author and mother of two celebrates black hair — and bonnets — in her new picture book Some picture books celebrate children going to bed with their blankets. Others show little boys and girls ...

“The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep,” a self-published paperback (inset) about a sleepy bunny, shot to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list last month and was released as an e-book Tuesday. Getty ...

Two reissues of Kate Chorao's nursery compendiums, The Baby's Bedtime Book and The Baby's Lap Book, pair the artist's soft spring-like watercolors with familiar rhymes. The first title contains ...

Taco Bell never tastes better than it does in the morning. The real early morning that is, when it’s 3:30 a.m. and you’ve been out all night. It’s that time of day when you’d consider committing a ...

Many of us have memories as children of our parents tucking us in at night and reading us a bedtime story. However, those memories usually stopped at around age eight or nine. As teenagers, we most ...

A few small changes can turn evenings from frazzled to peaceful. These parent-tested shifts help toddlers feel safe, seen, ...

Clockwise from top left: “Time for Bed, Old House,” by Janet Costa Bates, illustrated by A.G. Ford; “The Going to Bed Book,” by Sandra Boynton; “Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site,” by Sherri ...