Tales from the Crib

D.W. wants to have a new bed, Vicita is worried. D.W. desides to speak to the Younger Tibbles. Younger Tommy says it was a done. Younger Timmy says he never sleeps in the bed for the week. Younger Tommy is meanie because they have spiders in the bed! and cross under the blanket!

One day, while D.W. is playing at Vicita's house, the former accidentally breaks one of the latter's Secret Agent Christy doll's heads off. However, Vicita immediately forgives her and is about to get another doll when...

... she finds her crib is disassembled, and she got a new bed. She is worried and wants her crib, but D.W. tells her about how she got through sleeping in a bed.

About a year ago, because D.W. was getting to be a big girl and because Mrs. Read is expecting a new baby, the latter decides to buy the former a new bed and give the crib to the new baby (though D.W. wants to sleep in the crib all her life).

At the store, a salesman shows D.W. a sunflower bed with a "secret" pull-out drawer, but D.W. doesn't care. She also refuses a bed with monkeys on the headboard. Before she can finish insisting she wants the same crib she always had, she observes a royal unicorn bed and picks that one.

Then she tells the Tibble Twins about this, but they say they'd never sleep in a bed because of "Aracnar" (however it's spelled): Lord of the Spider People. But that was just an "Irving Legend" ("the kind of story [one's] old [non-existent] Uncle Irving tells, which is real scary, but doesn't actually happen").

That night, D.W. gets too excited about her new bed to go to sleep, so she gets out of bed and goes through every book on the shelf. She then exits her room and sneaks into her parents' room, so her mother brings her back to her bed, declaring that she knows it's new to sleep in a bed, but even she and daddy need their sleep, and she tells her to stay in bed.