A father tells his son a story about when he was young. He found a duck in the fridge and then all over the house. He invited in sheep to get the ducks and then dogs to get the sheep and so on. None of them left, so he came up with a way to make everyone go to sleep, reading a bedtime story.

Using illustrations and only two words, shows the trouble a young boy has trying to get his very playful pet gorilla to go to bed.

Mr. Monkey bakes a cake and enters it in a contest, but nothing goes as planned.

"A young reader comes upon an alluring book and he starts to read, becoming blissfully unaware of increasingly odd and outlandish occurrences looming all around him"--