11.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

This is one of those lovely bedtime stories for kids with pictures. This book has colourful
illustrations and differently shaped pages with holes showing the caterpillar’s trail through
various foods. The story goes that one Sunday morning, a red-faced caterpillar hatches from an
egg on a leaf and begins to look for food. He eats a leaf but is very hungry. He then eats through
various increasing quantities of food on the next five days. The caterpillar eats through 1 apple on
Monday, 2 pears on Tuesday, 3 plums on Wednesday, four strawberries on Thursday, and five
oranges on Friday. Then on Saturday, the caterpillar has a huge feast of one piece each of
chocolate cake, ice-cream cone, pickle, Swiss cheese, salami, lollipop, cherry pie, sausage,
cupcake and watermelon. After this, the caterpillar gets a bad stomach ache from eating too much
food. The caterpillar feels better on Sunday after he returns to his usual diet of a large green leaf.
He then spins a cocoon around himself in which he remains for two weeks. After two weeks, the
caterpillar emerges from the cocoon as a beautiful butterfly with colourful wings. This book
teaches little children about counting, names of various foods, days of the week, and the life cycle
of a butterfly.

12. Goodnight Moon

This is a lovely picture book for children. It features a bunny saying goodnight to everything
around it. The sentences form a rhyming poem and describe how the bunny says goodnight to
various living and inanimate objects around it, such as a red balloon, a dollhouse, two kittens, the
moon, and so on. It goes “Goodnight room, Goodnight moon, Goodnight cow jumping over the
moon, Goodnight light, and the red balloon. Little children love the rhymes and soothing rhythm
of the story, and it quickly lulls them to sleep.

13. Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein

This story is about a red chicken who is so excited to finish a story that he interrupts it every time,
much to the exasperation of his dad. Papa chicken is putting the little red chicken to bed. Papa
chicken agrees to read a bedtime story to the red chicken and tells his son not to interrupt. The
father starts reading Hansel and Gretel after the red chicken agrees. As the story nears the end, the
little red chicken gets excited, interrupts the story and finishes telling it on his own. The red
chicken then interrupts again when his dad reads him the stories of Little Red Riding Hood and
Chicken Little. Finally, Papa chicken runs out of stories and asks the little one to read to him
instead. Little red chicken starts reading a story, and within minutes, the dad is fast asleep,
snoring in the little one’s bed.

14. Is it Bedtime, Wibbly Pig?

This story is in a question and answer format. The narrator asks Wibbly Pig if it is bedtime
already and each time, Wibbly Pig gives amusing excuses to avoid going to bed. Wibbly Pig is
taking a shower when the narrator asks if it is bedtime. Wibbly Pig replies that it is not, since she
is still in the bath. When asked if she has finished the bath, she says she is still drying her toes.
The story goes on with Wibbly Pig coming up with various excuses to avoid bedtime. The story
ends when Wibbly finally falls asleep with her cuddly toys Dimple the teddy bear, Pigley the pig
and Flop, the bunny.

15. Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr Seuss

This is a book full of rhyming verses and colourful illustrations. It tells children that life is a
balance of both good and bad things, but can be fun if you want it to be. Each verse tells children
about different stages of life and the choices they can make to deal with the various situations
they face. It teaches the children that they have to decide where to go and what to do in life. It
also says that life is not always going to be easy, but the children can face any situation and keep
moving ahead.

11. The Very Hungry Caterpillar

This is one of those lovely bedtime stories for kids with pictures. This book has colourful
illustrations and differently shaped pages with holes showing the caterpillar’s trail through
various foods. The story goes that one Sunday morning, a red-faced caterpillar hatches from an
egg on a leaf and begins to look for food. He eats a leaf but is very hungry. He then eats through
various increasing quantities of food on the next five days. The caterpillar eats through 1 apple on
Monday, 2 pears on Tuesday, 3 plums on Wednesday, four strawberries on Thursday, and five
oranges on Friday. Then on Saturday, the caterpillar has a huge feast of one piece each of
chocolate cake, ice-cream cone, pickle, Swiss cheese, salami, lollipop, cherry pie, sausage,
cupcake and watermelon. After this, the caterpillar gets a bad stomach ache from eating too much
food. The caterpillar feels better on Sunday after he returns to his usual diet of a large green leaf.
He then spins a cocoon around himself in which he remains for two weeks. After two weeks, the
caterpillar emerges from the cocoon as a beautiful butterfly with colourful wings. This book
teaches little children about counting, names of various foods, days of the week, and the life cycle
of a butterfly.

12. Goodnight Moon

This is a lovely picture book for children. It features a bunny saying goodnight to everything
around it. The sentences form a rhyming poem and describe how the bunny says goodnight to
various living and inanimate objects around it, such as a red balloon, a dollhouse, two kittens, the
moon, and so on. It goes “Goodnight room, Goodnight moon, Goodnight cow jumping over the
moon, Goodnight light, and the red balloon. Little children love the rhymes and soothing rhythm
of the story, and it quickly lulls them to sleep.

13. Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein

This story is about a red chicken who is so excited to finish a story that he interrupts it every time,
much to the exasperation of his dad. Papa chicken is putting the little red chicken to bed. Papa
chicken agrees to read a bedtime story to the red chicken and tells his son not to interrupt. The
father starts reading Hansel and Gretel after the red chicken agrees. As the story nears the end, the
little red chicken gets excited, interrupts the story and finishes telling it on his own. The red
chicken then interrupts again when his dad reads him the stories of Little Red Riding Hood and
Chicken Little. Finally, Papa chicken runs out of stories and asks the little one to read to him
instead. Little red chicken starts reading a story, and within minutes, the dad is fast asleep,
snoring in the little one’s bed.

14. Is it Bedtime, Wibbly Pig?

This story is in a question and answer format. The narrator asks Wibbly Pig if it is bedtime
already and each time, Wibbly Pig gives amusing excuses to avoid going to bed. Wibbly Pig is
taking a shower when the narrator asks if it is bedtime. Wibbly Pig replies that it is not, since she
is still in the bath. When asked if she has finished the bath, she says she is still drying her toes.
The story goes on with Wibbly Pig coming up with various excuses to avoid bedtime. The story
ends when Wibbly finally falls asleep with her cuddly toys Dimple the teddy bear, Pigley the pig
and Flop, the bunny.
15. Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr Seuss

This is a book full of rhyming verses and colourful illustrations. It tells children that life is a
balance of both good and bad things, but can be fun if you want it to be. Each verse tells children
about different stages of life and the choices they can make to deal with the various situations
they face. It teaches the children that they have to decide where to go and what to do in life. It
also says that life is not always going to be easy, but the children can face any situation and keep
moving ahead.