I’m looking for this book of illustrated stories I read during my school days (would have been ~15-20 years ago). It had a light blue hard cover and the title I believe was something along the lines of “365 Illustrated Bedtime Stories” or the like (I have tried searching various book websites with various combinations of this name but no luck).
It was a collection of 365 illustrated stories, each a few pages long. I remember details from a few –
1) There were a few stories about a young boy wizard who is getting trained. In one of the stories he had a long day and fell asleep (there was a specific illustration about this)
2) There were a few stories about a family on an alien planet in space (terraforming it?), assisted by a bunch of sentient construction robots. The family consisted of a mum, dad, son, daughter and pet dog. In one story, there is an infestation of mechanical crab like creatures – one of the children get carried off and is later rescued by the robots. In another, they accidentally puncture the crust of the planet which starts flooding the surface with the underground ocean that they were unaware existed. They are unwilling to leave the robots but have to evacuate the planet. Thankfully, the robots modify themselves into a spacecraft and manage to evacuate as well (I remember a few lines that were along the lines of – suddenly there was a bright flash of retro boosters from the surface… the robots has transformed [one of them] into a spacecraft etc etc)
I believe there was a companion book of “365 Illustrated Daytime Stories” with a light peach cover, and I believe a basket of curled up puppies / kittens or a large curled up squirrel with a bushy tail on its cover.
Sorry I know this might not be much to go on, but I really loved these books as a child and am very keen to get my hands on them if possible.
Any help would be very much appreciated!! Thanks in advance
‘A Treasury of Goodnight Stories”, published 1988, Marshall Cavendish
Inside is the story ‘Diggersaurs and the Drowning Planet’, and just as you recollect there was ‘the flash of a retro-burner’.
https://archive.org/details/treasuryofgoodni0000unse_x7n4/page/86/mode/2up?q=bedtime+stories+robot+wizard+%22fell+asleep%22+planet+flood