Julie Downing

An ingenious account of the jobs people do all through the night, when kids are fast asleep. In Night in the City, author and illustrator Julie Downing cleverly uses multiple panels to follow eight people throughout the course of their busy evening, from waking up just as most people are contemplating bedtime, through the following morning. The jobs depicted are nurse, baker, taxi driver, fire fighter, on location film tech, janitor, museum security...

In rhyming text, the animals of the forest wake up with the Sun, and go about their lives until night comes, and the Moon returns.

Animal mothers, including a rabbit, cat, and human, care for their young by waking them up, washing their faces, and performing other activities.

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 everyone else in the family is sleeping, baby Tessa manages to get out of her crib and plays until the rest of the family begins to awaken.

"Readers are told the story of Helen Martini's care for lion and tiger cubs, and her emergence as the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper"--

Interesting facts about the lives of the mothers of 44 of the presidents of the United States.

While eagerly awaiting the arrival of her two younger brothers from the old country, Anna tries to speak more English and less Yiddish.

Scarlet the vampire and Igor the mummy are friends, even though they can never agree on what they want to do or anything else--except that they are best friends.