I'm reading a bunch of Dr. Seuss books to see which one I think I might like to give to my great niece. Obviously, at my age, it has been a long time since I read these. A large number I have never read.

I never read this one. No loss. I wasn't very fond of it. Maybe a 3 year old might like it though. For now, I'll put this way down on my gift list for her.

The all time story of bed time, where Dr Seuss and only Dr Seuss celebrates the art of the snoose, ahem, the snooze! Creatures of every make of Seuss's vibrant imagination sleep around the world in big washtubs, mattresses made of pompoms, window nooks and castle niches, you name it, they rest it. And somewhere under a plexiglass dome, the number of sleepy creatures is counted to assure that everyone is asleep and safe. The Sleep Book is another way of repeating the song in Sesame Street, that everybody sleeps, and sleeping is part of life. And how does Seuss know? It's just so.
Four stars
Hit the Seuss button and rock yourself to sleep!!!

I don't know why, but I don't know how many times I yawned when reading this book?! :-O
Whatever it be, it's a good sleep book.. ;)

Dit is een van de beste Dr. Seussboeken. Niet alleen zit het vol wonderlijke werelden en wezens, de nachtelijke atmosfeer vol heerlijk slapende karakters nodigt je echt uit tot slapen. Vooral de laatste twee platen, boordevol slapende wezens, zijn fantastisch. Een echte klassieker onder de prentenboeken.

My favorite bed time book to read to my daughter!

This classic by Dr. Seuss is one of our family's all-time favorites. It's a long book, so don't pull this off the shelf if you want a quick story before bed for your kids. But if you want a story that will get your kids to sleep 9 times out of 10, this book is your best friend.

"The Sleep Book" has become so much a part of our family's heritage, we'll quote whole sections of the book to each other on road trips, just for fun.

One of our favorites:
"Counting up sleepers? / Just how do we do it? / Really quite simple / there's nothing much to it / On a mountain halfway between Reno and Rome / we have a machine in a plexiglass dome / which listens and looks into everyone's home / Whenever it sees a new sleeper go flop / it jiggles and lets a new biggle-ball drop / Our chap counts these balls as they plup in a cup / and that's how we know who is down and who's up"

And this one:
"A Mr. and Mrs. J. Carmichael Krox / have just gone to bed near the town of Fort Know / and they, by the way, have the finest of clocks / I'm not at all that sure I quite, quite understand / just how the thing works with that one extra hand / But I do know this clock does one slick trick / It doesn't tick tock / How it goes it tock tick / So with ticks in its tocker and tocks in its ticker / it saves lots of time and the sleepers sleep quicker"

When you read this to your kids, make sure you don't skip the inside cover page. There is a reminder that "this book is to be read in bed", which is helpful for getting the kids settled and still before reading. Read it softly and slowly, letting the cadence hang in the air, and make sure you yawn big yawns on cue. By the time you reach the end of the book, your kids will be ready to add their sleep number to the others before:

"Ninety-nine zillion, nine trillion and two / creatures are sleeping / so, how about you? / When you put out your light / then the number will be / ninety-nine zillion, nine trillion and three / Good night"

While this book may be read at any time of day, the book concludes by advising the reader to only read this book at night. Yet another classic by Dr. Seuss that reinforces the beloved tongue-twisters, repetitive words and made up phrases! I read this book to bed the other night and am not ashamed to admit. Dr. Seuss is simply the best.

Cute book about sleeping, warning it may make you sleepy!!

Cuuuuuuute!

A tale told in rhyme of how one very small bug started to yawn, and the yawn spread to make creatures far and wide get ready for bed. This book is recommended to be read in bed just in case the reader starts to yawn, and gets sleepy, then they too will be prepared for a good night's sleep.

From 1962 – “A small bug yawn spreads contagiously and though various creatures, including two Foona Lagoona Baboona, the Collapsable Frink, the Chippendale Mupp, two Offt, and the Curious Krandles.”
The news just came 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.
This is almost Dr Seuss metafiction, with an awareness that the point of his books mostly is for a bedtime story. So he writes one about sleep. There’s not really a story in this one, except as much as telling about a lot of fantastical beings from around the world and their sleep habits, are circling back round to ask you, the reader, about going to sleep too. The book is better than it has any right to be given the subject, in part because it’s treated like one of the older reader books instead of one of the juvenile books. It’s also more or less like an exploration of the Butterfly Effect with the bug beginning a yawn that makes it way around the world which is interesting because that metaphor is from 11 years later. Did Dr Seuss invent chaos theory? Well, no. Actually it’s closer to the theory of small things adding up like Leo Tolstoy talks about in War and Peace.

While this book may be read at any time of day, the book concludes by advising the reader to only read this book at night. Yet another classic by Dr. Seuss that reinforces the beloved tongue-twisters, repetitive words and made up phrases! I read this book to bed the other night and am not ashamed to admit. Dr. Seuss is simply the best.