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Full of wonderful yawning creatures who spread sleep thoughts at bedtime, this book is the perfect remedy for children who don’t want to go to sleep.
This delightful book forms part of the second stage in HarperCollins’ major Dr. Seuss rebrand programme. With the relaunch of 10 more titles in August 2003, such all-time favourites as How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? and Dr. Seuss’ Sleep Book boast bright new covers that incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels: Blue Back Books are for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books are for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books are for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. Dr. Seuss’ Sleep Book belongs to the Yellow Back Book range.
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Theodor Seuss Geisel – better known to millions of his fans as Dr. Seuss – was born the son of a park superintendent in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904. After studying at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and later at Oxford University in England, he became a magazine humorist and cartoonist, and an advertising man. He soon turned his many talents to writing children’s books, and his first book – And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street – was published in 1937. His greatest claim to fame was the one and only The Cat in the Hat, published in 1957, the first of a hugely successful range of early learning books.
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The news Just came in From the Country of Keck That a very small bug By the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide You can look down his neck. Read the first page
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is the next best thing to a ride in the car to help your youngster get to sleep. Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book will also provide lots of relaxing evening reads . . . that will leave you in a good mood for a restful night, as well.
Many people report having trouble getting to sleep throughout their entire lives. Sleep experts advise creating new behaviors that enourage drowsiness. Avoid caffeine. Put the lights on low. Have some quiet music. Avoid activities in bed other than sleeping (I've always wondered about that one, too, for the parents). Keep a regular schedule. Have some hot milk.
So Dr. Seuss right away changes the rules. "This Book is to be Read in Bed."
You will immediately meet a "very small bug . . . Van Vleck
is yawning so wide
you can look down his neck."
Now a yawn is catching. In fact, I'm yawning as I type this section.
Before I knew about this book, one of my favorite methods of helping our youngsters settle down was to go into their room to read a story while yawning uncontrollably. They could seldom resist yawning themselves for longer than two minutes. Pretty soon the eye lids were heavy. Dr. Seuss gives you some additional hypnotic suggestions to help with this process, so you'll soon be a sleep-inducing magician.
What follows are lots of references to brushing your teeth before bedtime, turning the lights out, more yawns, and getting into bed.
He describes a growing number of sleepers. These include stilt-walkers, the Hinkle-Horn Honking Club, the collapsible Frink, some who are talking in their sleep, Joe and Mo Redd-Zoff are sleep walking, the Hoop-Soup-Snoop Group, the Curious Crandalls, Chippendale Mupp bites his tail, Mr. and Mrs. J. Carmichael Krox, Zwiebach Motel guests, snorers who make music, Jedd, two Offts, a dreaming moose and goose, the Bumble-Tub Club sleeping afloat, and the salesmen in the Vale of Va-Vode sleeping all over the road (and everywhere else).
Pretty soon, zillions of creatures are sleeping. Good night!
Obviously, the key to this book is to create an ever more . . . drowsy mood. Unlike the usual Dr. Seuss story, you want to s - l - o - w d - o - w - n a - s y - o - u g - o .
The book is rather long, so the cadence has a chance to create a rhythmic sense of relaxation. Reading the book can become one of those regular habits that is sleep inducing in this way.
The only book that compares with this one for relaxing your child into sleep is Good Night Moon, which is surely a staple in your repertoire by now. Older children do tire of that (which is great for wee ones), so they can graduate later to this book. Naturally, when your child starts to read this book to you, you should encourage putting yawns and snores in at the right places . . . while avoiding lethargy disturbing giggles and laughter.
Now I hope you feel like you're as snug as a bug in a rug, and the pillow is ever so soft. Take a large yawn, try two, and then go on to three. Pass along these soporofic hints, and you'll enjoy the land of nod, too.
As you can see, this book is great for creating a mood. You can enhance any experience by establishing the proper mood. What mood will make your child most want to learn when you are together?
Make your progress irresistible!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
this is it--the ONE book to read in bed before lights out. Both my 4 1/2 year old and my nearly 3 yr old love it. More importantly I love it. I say more importantly, because if you adults have to read the same book over and over night after night you'd BETTER love it! Buy it if you don't have it already.
mother of three
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
My Five year old has always had trouble getting to sleep, so while trawling through Amazon to find books to give me ideas, I came across this book. It is absolutely magic. As soon as we open the book the yawning starts and by the end her eyelids are drooping and she's asleep within minutes!! I absolutely recommend this book to anyone having trouble sleeping, young or old!!!
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We love the good Dr in our house!
This is a superb bedtime book, and I defy you to read it without feeling sleepy yourself!
With the usual Dr Seuss style nonsense rhyming, it is a lovely book all about... Read more
With the usual Dr Seuss style nonsense rhyming, it is a lovely book all about... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Alfie's mummy
This tickles me every time I read it
I never read Dr Seuss as a child (what were my parents thinking?!) but the joy of discovery with my own three of 5 and under has been immense. And this is my favourite of all. Read more
Published 11 months ago by rach-s-a
Nostalgia
I read this book to my children who loved it and I'm now reading it to my grandson. What can I say, vintage Seuss with a lovely flowing text and preposterous names which make it... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Antoinette Sym
It's all the good things everyone says it is-but, MAN, it's LONG!
It takes FOREVER to read!!!!!
I needed a glass of water and a rest half way through!!!!! Tongue twisters throughout!!! Read more
I needed a glass of water and a rest half way through!!!!! Tongue twisters throughout!!! Read more
Published 12 months ago by Flocon de neige
Dr Seuss' Sleep Book
Great nighttime reading for older children, my daughter is six and we both enjoy it! The text is advanced so there is lots of room for learning from it.
Published 13 months ago by puravida
Essential bookcase fodder for all young children and their parents
This book is wonderful - I read it so many times to my daughter during the four years she was aged between 2 and 6 that I can now recite it (which makes reading it in the dark... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Pardo
Lots of fun at bedtime
Really enjoying this book. Is quite long but easy just to pick random pages. My 1 1/2 year old loves reading it as much as I do.
Published 16 months ago by Critical
The best night-time read for kids
My 6 year old daughter loves this book, but if anything I am the bigger fan. The writing is superb, even better than the other Dr Seuss books we have. Read more
Published 17 months ago by G. Hancox
Dr Suess does it again
When you have to read books to your child over and over, its important you like them... I'd get this whole series and never tire of them! I love it! Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2009 by Dr. C. Watson
Ever had trouble sleeping?
If you suffer from insomnia this is the book for you. In the small hours of the morning when you can't get any shut-eye and you're disturbing your partner with your tossing and... Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2009 by Kimondo
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