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Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book (Classic Seuss) (Hardcover)
by Dr. Seuss
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Bedtime & dreaming, Ages 0-3, Children's books |
| Market price: ¥ 158.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
An amazing book that makes you can't help yawning and falling asleep sweetly. |
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Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Pub. in: August, 1962
ISBN: 0394800915
Pages: 64
Measurements: 11.3 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00273
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This is the book to get the kids to sleep. The author generates "the sleep spell" as from the start he tells the story of each character in the book getting prepared to go to sleep. It begins with a yawn and like a chain reaction, every creature in the book wants to go to bed and have a good night sleep. With such a plot, coupled with corresponding illustrations, the book works on your child's mind to fall asleep as well.
In addition, this book is hilarious and fun to read. Each page is more surprising and unexpected than the next. The goose who dreams about goose juice, and the moose who dreams about moose juice; they have to be careful to avoid mixing up their dreams...This is a great bedtime book.
Target readers:
Baby-Preschool
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Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904. After attending Dartmouth College and Oxford University, he began a career in advertising. His advertising cartoons, featuring Quick, Henry, the Flit! appeared in several leading American magazines. Dr. Seuss's first children's book, And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, hit the market in 1937, and the world of children's literature was changed forever! In 1957, Seuss's The Cat in the Hat became the prototype for one of Random House's best-selling series, Beginner Books. This popular series combined engaging stories with outrageous illustrations and playful sounds to teach basic reading skills. Brilliant, playful, and always respectful of children, Dr. Seuss charmed his way into the consciousness of four generations of youngsters and parents. In the process, he helped kids learn to read. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and three Academy Awards, Seuss was the author and illustrator of 44 children's books, some of which have been made into audiocassettes, animated television specials, and videos for children of all ages. Even after his death in 1991, Dr. Seuss continues to be the best-selling author of children's books in the world.
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Illustrated in color. "Deliberately calculated to make its readers yawn. No one could resist those zillions of astonishing sleepyheads." (Quote from The New York Times)
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Zinta Aistars (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-31 00:00>
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. |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-31 00:00>
I'm in eighth grade, and my English teacher had us all read a Dr. Seuss book for his 101st birthday. I picked up Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, wondering if it would help me, a restless dreamer, sleep at night. My hunch was right. The first page started me yawning instantly, as if the book had begun to cast a hypnotic sleep spell! By the time I reached the Mcphail band in the middle, when I had to stop at the end of class, I was yawning like a hippo! I was still drowsy when I got to gym class, almost an hour later! I curled up in a loose ball on my spot on the gym floor and very sleepily mumbled to myself, "Can I take a nap now?" I'm certain that if I'd finished, it would put me to sleep! I'm still yawning as I write this! *yawn* I'm going to get this book so I can sleep at night. As soon as I take a *yawn* little *yawn* nap... |
Agno (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-31 00:00>
My 2.5 year old son doesn't usually sleep for books-in fact; before reading this book, he didn't sleep for any books at all. This one does the trick about 50% of the time, now, and he's very sleepy at the end of the book, if he isn't asleep. If your young child doesn't usually sleep for books, you should definitely try this one out. |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-31 00:00>
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. |
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