Henry the Duck has his hands full when all the neighbors bring their babies for him to watch one day.

"Show a little maturity," he said, which I've doped out to mean: Pass all your courses, avoid detection in all crimes and misdemeanors, don't get pregnant. Celine's father has left her with these instructions. She's not too worried about the last two, but she'll fail English unless she rewrites her Catcher in the Rye essay. And she keeps being interrupted, especially by Jake, the neighbor's boy, who's been dumped on her for the weekend.

No matter how many times the babysitter asks Joe to go to bed, he always answer, "No!" After numerous attempts and lots of mischief on little Joe's part, the babysitter finally asks, "why, oh why won't you go to bed?" Joe's answer might surprise some with it's magical simplicity.