Yes, it's a nice book.

Yes, I read this in bed.

Yes, I started to become sleepy.

Yes, I kept yawning.

Yes, it's the perfect sleep book.

While I had some Dr. SUess books as a small kid, I don't remember them being a huge thing and I am enjoying reading them as an adult.

In this one... well it is a classic Dr Seuss panorama of weird names and impossible creatures going to sleep. The overwhelming (and very funny) conclusion one gains as an adult that it was designed solely to get kids to bed, kind of a more politically correct and kid friendly Go the Fuck to Sleep.

Some very pretty artwork in it too.

the sleep book is quite effective, I'm happy to report. I was yawning by the 4th page. i would argue that it's really effective in getting children to go to sleep. love the rhymes as usual.

"A yawn is quite catching, you see. like a cough.
it just takes one yawn to start other yawns off."

"They're sleeping on steps! and on strings! and on floors!
In mailboxes, ships, and the keyholes of doors!
every worm on a fishhook is safe for the night.
every fish in the sea is too sleepy to bite.
every whale in the ocean has turned off his spout.
every light between here and far foold is out"

I can't say this is one of Seuss's bigger hits. It's jibbly jabble about sleep. While it rhymes, there isn't really a story to it. It's too long and kids (and adults) zone out before it is close to being done. I always groaned when the kids brought it to me to read because I knew that we would be bored out of our gourd and fatigued before it was done. So, if the book's goal is to PUT you to SLEEP, then maybe it accomplished its goal. It's not a Seuss book that I would run to add to my Seuss library.

"This book is to be read in bed"

I wish I was in this book.

Warning: This book should be read in bed! It's such a cute book, even though there's not really a point except to point out all the creatures sleeping, and implying the reader should be sleeping too! What I love about it is it's classic Dr. Seuss, and it's great! How in the world did this man not only draw these fabulous creatures, but the funny names and the story lines?

Anyone who thinks he is not the best thing since sliced dough
Needs to be run over by the Hoop-Soup-Snoop Group,
So I'm bothering telling you so,
Because they are not in the loop!

So, it is said:
“This book is to be read
in bed.”

So, I waited and read,
Read a few books in my bed,
all snuggled and fed.

Now’s time to sleep,
and instead of counting sheep,
I read Sleep Book, while twirling my feet.

Hollerin’ a giggle and a yawn
HEEhee-in’ and HAha-in’
Turns off the light, I’ll be sleepin’ till dawn.

-Me

Yawns are completely contagious!

This rhyme thing is catchy after you read 20+ Dr. Seuss books in a row to revisit your childhood. I feel this urge and compulsion to rhyme every time I write or speak. I feel gross when I don’t. Clear sign it’s time to really go to sleep!

Not much of a fan for this one especially since the Romanian translations did not manage to sound right for me. I mean the translation is fine, but the rhymes don't go smoothly and this is something that bothers me since this is one of Dr Seus' main selling points. Other than that there is yawning and multiple creaturea going to sleep in very silly ways and I so very pissed that I could not enjoy it as much as I would have if I had read it in English probably.

Not as good as others. Doesn't really flow as well and seems to drag, which is probably good because it's a book for going to sleep

Absolutely clever and cute.

I really want to read this to my kids before they go to sleep.
*sigh*

It's Just The Thing For Bedtime Reading.