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A delightfully funny and cute review!

You’re giving good ideas!

Thanks, PP! :)

:D Tatevik! In parenting, we'll take any little win we can get, right?!

A delightful review! :) (Reading very slowly can work too, I field-tested it myself, lol.)

Yeah, slowing down to a drawl seems like the more intuitive thing to do if you want to create restfulness, doesn't it! :D
A pleasant surprise in this case. I guess the fact I was reading too fast for her to understand made her bored and combined with the fact she had already been fighting sleep since getting back from childcare.... Perfect conditions! :D

Some books are just fun to read out loud. They are such pleasing nonsense.

Absolutely, Path. This is a very fun, read-aloud book. How long I will feel like that depends on how popular this one becomes with the little one! 😆

Love this review and the unexpected bonus created by the book, haha

I wonder if super-fast reading as a cure for insomnia would work on adults�� let’s see if I can crank up the audiobook speed to 5x and�� 😴

Nataliya wrote: "I wonder if super-fast reading as a cure for insomnia would work on adults�� let’s see if I can crank up the audiobook speed to 5x and�� 😴"

Ooooh. I think you could be onto something but what about this - 5 x speed.... Spanish audiobook. What an absolute wall of sound that would be! 🤣 You'll either fall asleep or start hemorrhaging. On 2nd thought, maybe not worth the risk.

Rosh wrote: "Love this review and the unexpected bonus created by the book, haha"

Thanks, Rosh! Nice little perk, I thought! 😁

The best feeling, Jonathan )))

Wonderful review. Brings back memories of reading it to my son.

Thank you, Linda! I hope to create as many lovely memories with my daughter as you undoubtedly have with your son!
Her favourite part is the tweetle beetle battle :D

Aww, this is pretty adorable review Jonathan. Bedtime reading is the best time with one’s children. Reading to my kids at bedtime was the best part of the day, though my son preferred me to tell a story I had made up about a bat in a oven. It was very involved, and grew progressively with each retelling with spooky sounds as the person in the story followed the sounds of whoosh whoosh in the house. I found my granddaughter loved it as well and I treasure the times I was asked to tell the story of the bat in the oven. She also loved stories of Rudolf coming for a play date. Weird but delightful. I really appreciated this review and the memories it evoked. Thank you!

Sherry wrote: "Aww, this is pretty adorable review Jonathan. Bedtime reading is the best time with one’s children. Reading to my kids at bedtime was the best part of the day, though my son preferred me to tell a ..."

Oh, thanks Sherry! :)
That's impressive! It can be difficult to make up, and progressively add to, a story on the fly! Sounds fun and, actually, kinda makes me want to write a Children's story of my own! :D

Trust good ol' Dr. Seuss to deliver amazing children's plot and a deviously fun tool for parents to put their kids to sleep lol.

Federico wrote: "Trust good ol' Dr. Seuss to deliver amazing children's plot and a deviously fun tool for parents to put their kids to sleep lol."

Hell of a guy, the Ol' Doc!

My favourite line in the book comes just after Mr.Knox has voiced his latets lament about the difficulties of tongue-twisters:

"I can't blah
such blibber blubber!
My tongue isn't
made of rubber."

To which Fox in Socks, patient until then but clearly getting fed up with this twit's negativity, hits him with a:

"Mr. Knox. Now
come now. Come now.
You don't have to
be so dumb now...."

Glorious! 😆

Jonathan,
Thank you for filling my head with these visuals. That darling child of yours!
My favorite book of Dr. Seuss's, to read to my kids, has always been DR. SEUSS'S SLEEP BOOK. However, it does come with a word of warning: it's a l-o-n-g book and she will get hooked on it. I can't actually read it all the way through without crying. Do you know that book of his?

Wouldn't be the first Dr.Seuss book she's gotten hooked on, Jules! I'm still reading 'The Grinch' two and a half months after Christmas and that's a relatively long one too. I suspect what she likes most about it is my suitably grouchy, Jim Carrey-esque depiction of the grinch :D
She has quite a few Dr.Seuss books but I hadn't heard of that one so thank you! I just bought a copy! :)

Jonathan,
You won't be disappointed! I promise.
Here's what happened, that made it so I couldn't read DR. SEUSS'S SLEEP BOOK without crying. (I'm going to quickly summarize the details, but you will get the general idea). We lost many airline pilots, of course, in the events surrounding 9/11, here in the states. One of them lived near where we were living at the time, and his kids (or "kid," I can't remember how many there were) who were young 20-somethings, spoke at his memorial. They were cheated out of their father's remains, given the circumstances, but they had a copy of the Dr. Seuss book he had read to them, over and over again, throughout their childhoods. They chose to read the book aloud, back to their father, and when they did, the word "sleep" became synonymous with the word "die." As in, we all sleep, and we will also all die someday, too. This is nothing that would come across to a young child, not at all, (a child listening to the book will be nothing but charmed) but the double meaning of the book stuck with me after that. I can't read the book now without remembering that young person reading the book back to his father for the last time. Sob.

Julie wrote: "Jonathan,
You won't be disappointed! I promise.
Here's what happened, that made it so I couldn't read DR. SEUSS'S SLEEP BOOK without crying. (I'm going to quickly summarize the details, but you wil..."

A very moving story to have attached to the book, Jules. I can see how memories of that would bring out such emotion.
Just got home to find my copy waiting at the door. Will see if the little one wants to read it tonight! :)