A boy mouse boasts of going on an adventure during the nighttime hours, but on every attempt, his mother recommends doing or taking something more important on the way to bed;[1][3][4] the scenarios that unfold across the eleven double spreads[5] all begin with the title phrase.
Publishers Weekly called it "a captivating picture book...[in which] Roberts's neatly condensed prose plays straight man to Begin's minutely detailed and lushly panoramic artwork, which catapults readers into the mouse child's imaginative alter-world.
"[1] The Worcester Telegram & Gazette, along with Stephanie Loer of The Boston Globe, gave word on the engaging large-scale artwork.
"[11] Kirkus Reviews and the Language Arts journal observed the conversational dynamic between the mother and son in its pages,[3][12] which reminded the former and PW of Margaret Wise Brown's The Runaway Bunny.
[1][3] Publishers Weekly, along with Christy Norris in the School Library Journal, respectively took note of the title words' "skillful" and "lulling" repetition.