Shows why the mother nesting bird stays quiet and still while sitting on her eggs.

"This poetic picture book asks the question: what do little animals dream? The surprising answers lend an eye and ear to the nocturnal rhythms of the forest"--

Illustrations and rhyming text reassure a series of barnyard babies, as well as the reader, that mamas always come back.

Relates, in rhyming verse, how dump trucks and paving machines layer and compact hot asphalt to make a street.