A renowned ABC News anchor/correspondent and former insomniac presents cutting-edge research, expert advice, intimate stories, and easy-to-implement solutions to help readers get the sleep they need. Roughly thirty percent of the population is estimated to be living with insomnia, while many more unknowingly suffer from other sleep disorders. Macedo learned the hard way how valuable sleep is, and how it affects everything from our heart to our brain...

Get a Good Night's Sleep! focuses on sleeping habits while discussing steps children can take to practice healthy lifestyles. Readers are introduced to why a bedtime is important, the sleep cycle, and routines to follow in order to get a good night's sleep. Callouts prompt inquiry, further thinking, and close examination of photographs. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and...

Mom tells her child to take a nap, but the child just isn't ready for one.

Scaredy comes up with a Bad Dream Action Plan to avoid sleep but between counting stars, playing cymbals and making scrapbooks, disaster still strikes and exhaustion takes its toll. Will Scaredy survive this ordeal? Will he find sweet dreams?

When Mr. and Mrs. Insomniac and little Mika move twelve time zones away, they have trouble staying awake during the day and make an interesting discovery about themselves.

"It's sleepy time for Lion and Penguin, but Lion's eyes aren't tired, and his ears would like a story. Penguin, however, is tired and drifts off into sweet candy dreams -- until a loud noise wakes him. It's Lion, seated at a drum set. 'Oh, Penguin! Are you awake?' Let's have the story, then! And so it goes, with an increasingly disgruntled penguin trying to nod off while an exuberant Lion innocently practices his drumming, munches on his crunchy...

Rhyming text and pictures introduce the reader to a variety of animals as they try to snuggle in to sleep.

A child speculates about sleeping next to various animals in various places other than one's own, and most desirable, warm bed.

"Mama Cat must convince baby kitty that it's time to take a nap."--Amazon.com.

After Little Critter helps Little Sister fall asleep, he has trouble getting back to sleep himself.