To stay up past bedtime, you've got to fight the night. Flashlight in hand, a determined young boy named Ronald sets out to battle sleep, though this 1968 book for readers 4 to 7 makes it clear that his real foe is his own imagination. In one of his earliest outings as an illustrator, Tomie dePaola makes skillful use of colored inks, and his appealing style—precise line-drawings of stocky tots, in wide-open landscapes—has already taken shape.