Bedtime Mouse (1981)—Returning full force to children’s literature, Stoddard teamed with illustrator Lynn Munsinger for the first of three memorable picture books they created together. This feel-good bedtime story is rich with delightful rhymes and images—a mouse in your house, a goose running loose—that engage the young reader before guiding them gently toward the dream-world of sleep. “Did you know there are moons in the skies of your eyes whenever you shut them?”