This playful bedtime story examines the plight of a community of zoo animals with insomnia. Shortly after the zookeeper settles down in bed with a good book, she receives a long line of nocturnal visitors, each complaining that "I am awake. I cannot sleep." Patiently, she hands each animal a book, suggesting that they "Take this book and read a bedtime story." But the animals return with another problem. Clutching their books, they remind her that they cannot read. When the tired zookeeper says "I will read to you," the animals crowd into her bed, falling asleep as she starts their story. Surrounded by her snoozing menagerie, the zookeeper finds that she is the only one who cannot sleep.