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Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book

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Dr Seuss' Sleep Book is amazing. I picked up a copy when my oldest child was about two years old, and it has always held her attention until she drifted off to sleep. My daughter is six now and, along with her two younger siblings, still loves this book.

Our favorite character is Snorter McPhail. The kids say he reminds them of their father... while I agree that he does bear a resemblance to my husband, I think I just like the concept of Snorter wearing a large bucket on his head, conducting a snoring orchestra - the "snore-a-snort band" - in a cave way out of town, all while he is asleep.

This book has some kind of weird voodoo magic that really does put kids (and sometimes grownups) to sleep. In the years that I've been reading the story to my children, they have almost never made it through the entire book before drifting off, and the few times they have made it through awake, they're extremely drowsy by the end. Dr. Seuss' Sleep Book has been read so often that the binding is starting to come loose, but we'll just keep reading it until it falls apart, then buy another copy.

I have not read all the Seuss books yet, but this book is a huge classic for me.
Each page is another world to enter into and dream about.
There is almost no plot, just one crazy, engrossing scene after another.
Not a great read-to book because your kid misses the visuals - but an amazing read-with book.

I have just read the copy from my youth, 30+ yrs ago, alongside my 3 and 5 yr old girls (in bed, as the book tells us to do) and they did not fidget once.

'Sleep' reminds me of the excellent 'Starbright' books that put images and scenes into the child's imagination. Those books are word only, this is basically pictures.

I started reading this book to my litle brother in the late 60's, then to my own daughters in the late 70's. I still have that copy that my daughters "bathed" (so no more cover) but I have since bought myself a new copy (for reading to visiting children), and a copy for each of my daughters when they had their babies. I have most of it memorized after all these years and love it dearly - no other children's book has made such an impression on me (well, "Free to Be You and Me" was close) or had the staying power over the decades. The book is brilliant in its use of increasingly dark backgrounds as the story progresses and it's impossible not to find yourself yawning by the end! I've read a lot of Dr. Seuss books but this is my favourite, no question.

This is a fun bedtime book, starting with a little bug who yawns so wide you can look down his neck, and showing the yawn spreading throughout the land, and then everyone getting ready for bed and going to sleep, and other related sleepy trivia. The rythm is sleep, and yawn inducing. I honestly can't get through this book without yawning about every page. But, since a yawn is catching, my little ones are soon yawning so wide you can look down thier necks!

This is an excellent book to have as a part of your sleepytime routine for your child. Dr. Seuss certainly had a gift for silly, poetic stories which children all seem to love.

I was never exposed to Dr Seuss as a child, so I want to start a collection with my one year old girl. I ran across The Sleep Book in the library. I usually have to read her at least 3 "sleep" books (among other rituals) before she even begins to feel drowsy. I only need to read halfway through the Sleep Book before she's out for the count. Even though she doesn't understand the words, she understands the rhythm that is so sleep inducing. I like to help the process by starting slow and quiet until I'm whispering as the characters are all asleep. I had to return the book so I desperately need to buy one to keep... ASAP!

Shake myself awake again to tell my sleepy view... of Dr. Seuss's "Sleep Book," a childhood favorite that has survived all the insomniac years of growing up and turning a bit more vintage. So many of my childhood books have vanished somewhere along that winding time-route... somewhere on those many travels and address changes, moved from one previous life to another former life to another life begun today. Lost, but for this one. And when a family pet took a toothy chomp along the binding, no matter, I had to buy another. Children's book? Ah, for the child in all of us! For we all sleep, and we all dream. The first stretchy yawn is as delicious as the final one, and the overall feel of this Seussian masterpiece is cozy, and warm, and comforting. I remember well my fascination with the unique characters as a child, with all their quirky sleep routines. I found them fully as endearing when reading the book, over and over again, to my own children. With anticipation of grandchildren looming somewhere within the next decade... I look forward to sharing these cozy yawns with yet another generation. The book is a timeless classic.

This delightful book is a must for all young children and parents.
Filled with wonderful characters and wonderful stories, starting with the news that 'Has just come in from the County of Keck
That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck
Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck'

It deals with a castle half way between Reno and Rome, Two very nice Foona Galoona Baboona, and the folly of a goose and moose drinking each other's juice. It will take the little ones minds off to faraway dreamy and tranquil destinations before easing them off to sleep. It was certainly one of my childhood favourites, and one of the first books I remember.

My two year old son loves Dr. Suess. We were having trouble getting him to wind down and get to sleep on his own at night (and naps). First, I started reading it to him before he went to bed. After about a week I started putting him in bed and read it to him and before I knew it he was falling asleep while listening to the story! Yeah! No more tramatic scenes before bed. This way is peaceful for both of us. Now he always asks for his "sleep book" when he gets in bed!

This is by far the best book that Dr. Seuss evey wrote. However, it is not for very young children. The book is long and there are a lot of words to read. This is a great book for reading aloud.

Everyone has heard of The Cat in the Hat, but I can't believe that so few people have been lucky enough to experience Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book. I can't think of another bedtime story that doesn't pale in comparison to this one.. As a child, I read it so much that at one point actually had it memorized... To this day I can still recite most of it! "The news just came in from the County of Keck.." and by the time I get to the last few lines... I'm always ready to sleep! Definately belongs in the top ten books of all time.