Dr Seuss's Sleep Book
by Dr. Seuss

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• ISBN13: 9780394800912
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Book Reviews of Dr Seuss's Sleep Book

Book Review: Yawn . . . My Eyes Are Getting Heavy . . . Yawn . . . Sleep
Summary: 5 Stars

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.

"The yawn of that one little bug is still spreading!"

"And people are gradually starting to say,

'I feel rather drowsy. I've had quite a day.'"

"Creatures are starting to think about rest.

Two Biffer-Baum Birds are now building their nest."

"Sleepy thoughts are spreading throughout the whole land."

What follows are lots of references to brushing your teeth before bedtime, turning the lights out, more yawns, and getting into bed.

"The number of sleepers is steadily growing."

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,

"Ninety-nine zillion,

Nine trillion and two

Creatures are sleeping!

So . . . How about you?"

"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!

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