Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book

For Marie and Bert Hupp

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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 may not seem

Very important, I know.

But it is. So I’m bothering Telling you so.

A yawn is quite catching, you see. Like a cough.

It just takes one yawn to start other yawns off.

NOW the news has come in that some friends of Van Vleck’s

Are yawning so wide you can look down their necks.

At this moment, right now,

Under seven more noses,

Great yawns are in blossom.

They’re blooming like roses.

The yawn of that one little bug is still spreading!

According to latest reports, it is heading

Across the wide fields, through the sleepy night air,

Across the whole country toward every-which-where.

And people are gradually starting to say,

“I feel rather drowsy. I’ve had quite a day.”

Creatures are starting to think about rest.

Two Biffer-Baum Birds are now building their nest.

They do it each night. And quite often I wonder

How they do this big job without making a blunder.

But that is their problem. Not yours. And not mine. The point is: They’re going to bed. And that’s fine.

Sleep thoughts

Are spreading

Throughout the whole land.

The time for night-brushing of teeth is at hand.

Up at Herk-Heimer Falls, where the great river rushes

And crashes down crags in great gargling gushes,

The Herk-Heimer Sisters are using their brushes.

Those falls are just grand for tooth-brushing beneath

If you happen to be up that way with your teeth.

The news just came in from the Castle of Krupp