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Gerald is tired and cranky and wants to take a nap, but Piggie is not helping.

A very tired and slightly grumpy Mommy falls asleep before Baby at naptime.

Slippers the puppy would rather pay attention to interesting smells, sounds, and sights than take a nap.

A child tells an outlandish tale of what took place while a younger sibling was taking a nap.

"Follow Mommy on her quest to settle Baby down for a nap as Baby dashes from family room to living room, both on the table and under it, through the kitchen and even hiding in the laundry basket"--

Santa is exhausted from delivering presents all night, so Otto the robot helps him find a quiet place to take a nap.

Harper the robot insists that he doesn't need to nap, despite the humorous consequences of his growing sleepiness.

All the orangutans are ready for a nap in the sleepy depths of the afternoon--all except one. Written in a series of linked poems in the tanka style, which is an ancient Japanese form of poetry.

The friendship and trust between a boy and his puppy is celebrated through simple text and photographs of them sharing naptime. It all started when a loving mother posted a few pictures of her son, Beau, and their new puppy, Theo, napping together on her popular blog Momma's Gone City. But these pictures were so "unbearably adorable" (Daily Mail) and "utterly charming" (Huffington Post) that it quickly became much, much more. By faithfully recording...

"With the sun up and grass warm, a barnyard chicken is optimistic that it will be a comfortable day for a nap. However, forces keep conspiring against her--until it becomes a bad day for someone else"--