It is night, the moon shines in the window, Susie's dog is sleeping by her bed. Downstairs her mother and father are awake, but soon they will go to bed.

Outdoors in the garden, the bees and buds and flowers are asleep, but the frogs and lightning bugs are awake. And in the fields, little night animals go busily about their little animal business. Down in the town a policeman is awake. And so are the bakers at the bakery and the printers at the newspaper office. Through the night the big trucks roll over the road and trains roar along the tracks. Men are working in the milk plant. 

But as morning comes, night workers go home to bed, night animals go to sleep and the...

From the dust jacket