Common Sense Note
The writing is dizzying and jolly, and the story of the yawn spreading across the land is clever. The art, often in shadowy colors, contributes to the fun and the drowse.
Common Sense Review
Reviewed By: Peter Lewis
Leave it to Seuss to make high comedy out of sleeping: "It's a great night for snores! I just had a report / Of some boys who are tops in this musical sport," including McPhail. "HE snores with his head in a three-gallon pail." Or all those woeful traveling salesmen out there--"Unsuccessfully trying to sell Ziffer-Zoof Seeds / Which nobody wants because nobody needs"--who are given a tender goodnight to rest their sore feet.
It is totally up for grabs whether this book will help youngsters to sleep or crank them into a frenzy of laughter and queries: "How are those guys so big if they weigh less than one pound?" a four-year-old wanted to know about the Offts. Good night. "Is a zillion more than a trillion?" Good night! "What's the number before zillion?" Good night!!
And everywhere are the strange residents of the strange places that comprise the Land of Seuss. There are moose, but also Curious Crandalls; there's a goose, but also a Chippendale Mupp, and they live in such districts as Foona-Lagoona and Far Foodle. Readers' imaginations will either be fevered or exhausted.
More documentary-like Seuss titles to explore are Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! and Oh Say Can You Say?.
Plot Summary:
Dr. Seuss lends his formidable talents to the Land of Nod, sending young sleepers off with a chuckle in their hearts. "A yawn is quite catching, you see. Like a cough. / It takes just one yawn to start other yawns off." And how! As citizens of Seussville fall asleep by the dozens, your little one will be happily absorbed.
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