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Horatio is a small stuffed rabbit who doesn't have a bed and can't fall asleep. James, his devoted teddy bear friend who likes to draw, decides to draw a bed for his tired friend. While James sketches--oblivious to the discomforts of a paper matress--Horatio looks elsewhere for a soft place to lay his weary head.

A boy is so sleepy that he vows nothing will get him out of his morning bed, neither peas and beans nor the United States Marines.

Georgie gets a new bed that takes him on magical adventures.

In this rendition a tiger is proven to be a princess. In this adaptation of the classic Andersen tale, a bedraggled feline, claiming to be the real princess whom the prince seeks as a mate, undergoes the queen's bizarre test for determining true nobility. A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves that she is a real princess.

Relates a variety of facts about beds, sleepwear, and sleeping from different cultures and periods of history.

"Delightful rhymes and charming hand-stitched art celebrate the many ways we sleep across the world."--

In this cumulative tale, a wakeful flea atop a number of sleeping people and assorted creatures causes a commotion, with just one bite.

In a modern interpretation of the classic fairy tale, the independent-minded Princess Esmerelda proves her royalty by feeling a pea through twenty mattresses. In this contemporary retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's tale, independent Princess Esmerelda runs away after refusing to marry a king chosen by her parents, only to fall in love with Prince Hector, who drives a red roadster. Illustrated and told from a fresh point of view, Once Upon a Princess...

A simplified version of the tale by Hans Christian Andersen in which a girl proves she is a real princess by feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds, set in Africa.

In the middle of a dark, stormy night, one child, then another, then a third wake their mother and ask to climb into the bed, but when the last member of the family arrives Papa declares there is no more room.