Mama opossum and her three joeys “awaken” as night falls. They “blink,” “clean” their teeth, “dress,” and “emerge” from their treehouse burrow. (While the majority of the text is presented in white font, the verbs are mauve-colored and bolded, catching the reader’s attention as the author proffers examples beginning with each letter of the alphabet.) After stopping to “gather” and “hunt,” the opossums proceed to a subterranean disco (hosted beneath a giant toadstool), where they dance the night away with other nocturnal creatures: “Opossums strut and shake their tails / till sun rays light the skies. / They thank the DJ, rubbing sleep / from tired, droopy eyes.” Gallois narrates in rhyming couplets that, in addition to the alphabetically arranged verbs, render the story somewhat underwhelming, despite the lively concept. Bobrek’s double-page illustrations are masterful, lending storybook personality to anthropomorphized animals (treated more naturalistically in previous Awesome Opossum Stories), offering young readers a recurring character (a frog) to find, and shading each scene with sublime, hazy hues that prove especially striking in the interplay of disco lights. One qualm: The properties of action verbs are never made explicit, and several of the chosen words are actually stative verbs (fail, know, prefer, understand) rather than action verbs.