Once Upon a Time, the End by Geoffrey Kloske and Barry Blitt

Once Upon a Time, the End (asleep in 60 seconds) by Geoffrey Kloske and Barry Blitt, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005, ISBN 0-689-86619-4
Publisher's Summary: A tired father takes only a few sentences to tell a number of classic tales in order to get the persistent listener to fall asleep.
My tags: humor, nursery rhymes, main idea, summarize
Love the introduction: "Once upon a time, and a long, long time ago, late at night, when it was dark, over the hills, through the woods, across a great ocean, In a land far away, In a small house, on a hill, Under a full moon..." All they left out was: "It was a dark and stormy night". In this book, the authors basically reduce all the favorite nursery rhymes to about a dozen sentences. Little Red Riding Hood (reduced to "Small girl, Red Hood") becomes a poem: 5 stanzas, 4 lines each! Interesting way to present summarization and main idea!
Really cute summary from Simon and Schuster:

"Once upon a time

there was a grown-up

looking for a book

with very short bedtime stories

for a kid who wouldn't go to sleep.

So the grown-up picked up this book

and read this flap

and took the book home

and read it out loud

and they both laughed

and fell fast asleep

fast.

Just like you.

The end."