By Shelley Moore Thomas
A kind little knight keeps riding out to the forest at bedtime to tuck in three small dragons who just can't settle down.
A Good Knight lives in a great stone castle. One evening he hears a great big roar from deep in the forest, so of course he rides out to see what's wrong. He finds three little dragons who can't get to sleep. One needs a drink of water. One needs a bedtime story. One needs a good-night kiss. Three times the knight rides all the way back to his castle and all the way out again, patient every time, until at last the little dragons are snug and quiet. Then the tired knight heads home to his own bed, and there's one last cozy surprise waiting when he gets there.
This is a knights-and-dragons book pitched right at a child who's just starting to read on their own. The sentences are short and repeat, so a new reader gets carried along and feels the win of finishing a real book. And it flips the whole idea of a knight: this one's job is bedtime, not battle, which makes it a lovely one for the exact hour you're reading it. The three dragons need the same things your child does at night, so the whole thing feels like their own routine in armor.