In Morningtown, animal families of all shapes and sizes are waking up, getting out of bed, washing up, eating breakfast, and looking forward to a new day.

Illustrations and text follow a family's morning routine from the perspective of the earliest riser in the house.

"A young child contemplates four different paths their day may take"--

"A small boy says so many 'good mornings' that by the time he is done, it's nap time!"--

Rhyming verses describe the sights and sounds of morning traffic as cars, trucks, and airplanes rev up their engines and go!

A little girl and her father make their way to school as the whole city wakes up around them.

"A picture book about a parrot named Beatrix, who is very awake, very excited to see her friends, and has a very hard time using her 'inside voice"'--

Early in the morning, a bird begins to sing at number One Fish Street, waking the man next door and his dog, and before long, as one noise leads to another, everyone on the street is awake.

Leo wakes up in the morning and follows his usual routine of breakfast and getting dressed until he is ready for a new day.

"It's time to get dressed and go the park, but Alfie is still in his pajamas. Putting on clothes seems like the least appealing thing to do for this energetic and curious little alligator, especially when there are so many amusing distractions"--