In a moonlight city, the first yawn of the night begins with a baby's tiny mouth wrapped around it. Soon, the baby's mother is yawning, and so is the family dog. Then it¹s the moon's turn. And with that, the yawn travels freely all over a spinning world full of sleepy people and animals living everywhere from big cities to small adobe villages.
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No one in the world can resist a great big yawn, especially when it comes from the sleepy moon herself. From the first yawn of the night, beginning "with a baby's tiny mouth wrapped around it," and moving on to the baby's mother, the family dog, children in countries far away, and even the moon, nighttime overcomes the planet, village by city, hemisphere by hemisphere.
Josephine Nobisso and Glo Coalson's delightful lullaby of a picture book will induce more contented yawns per page than any bedtime book on the shelf. As the earth rotates, each page's "yaw-awn" is connected to the next page, so that the seals a tired boy on a ship thinks he sees on one spread appear on the next page as well, surfacing through a hole in the ice near a hunting Eskimo family. Coalson's gentle blue-tinted watercolor and pastel illustrations soothe as effectively and expressively as the text. (Ages 3 to 6) --Emilie Coulter
From School Library Journal
reS-Gr 2-A baby's small yawn sets off a global chain of events. The infant's mother catches the yawn and passes it on to the family dog, who eventually passes it on to a smiling full moon. The moon sighs a yawn over the entire earth, passing it on to whales in the sea, koala bears, and parents and children around the world. The yawn eventually finds another baby, on the other side of the Earth, who is snuggling in for the evening with his mother beneath an awning in the desert. This picture book quietly celebrates diversity through a simple, shared experience. Children in contemporary cities, Latin America, Arctic regions, India, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East are represented. Coalson's subdued watercolor-and-pastel illustrations capture the hues of twilight and the gentle warmth of bedtime rituals. Nobisso's text reads well aloud and includes words and phrases from various cultures. Similar to Susan Bonners's wordless Just in Passing (Lothrop, 1989; o.p.), this story will cause readers to stifle yawns and yearn for their cozy beds.
Shawn Brommer, South Central Library System, Madison, WI
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Josephine Nobisso's first story appeared in a national magazine when she was 18. Since then, she has published over fifty books, mostly for children.
Each year, to rave evaluations, Miss Nobisso conducts about 100 workshops in "The Nobisso Recommendations: Guiding Students to Write in Their Authentic Voices," part of which comes to life in her book, Show; Don't Tell! Secrets of Writing. a book for which she received "The Global Learning Initiative Award" for "The Best Trade Book with Educational Application"-- a singular citation jointly administered by the Association of Education Publishers and the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
The National Catholic Educational Association named her "Distinguished Graduate," and Delta Kappa Gamma--the international society of honored teachers-- named her "Friend of Education," for "someone outside the profession who has worked significantly toward improving the educational opportunities of others, and who has given outstanding service to promoting quality education."
Among the very many honors that Miss Nobisso books have received are five other awards for Show; Don't Tell! Secrets of Writing: the International Reading Association/Children's Book Council "Children's Choice Award," an American Booksellers Association BookSense "Pick of the Lists" citation, a Parents' Choice Award, a National Parenting Publications Award, and was a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Finalist.
Born February 9, 1953, in the Bronx, Miss Nobisso homeschooled her daughter, Maria Nicotra, the Art Director of Gingerbread House, the press they founded together. Miss Nobisso and her family live on the East End of Long Island.
Each year, to rave evaluations, Miss Nobisso conducts about 100 workshops in "The Nobisso Recommendations: Guiding Students to Write in Their Authentic Voices," part of which comes to life in her book, Show; Don't Tell! Secrets of Writing. a book for which she received "The Global Learning Initiative Award" for "The Best Trade Book with Educational Application"-- a singular citation jointly administered by the Association of Education Publishers and the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
The National Catholic Educational Association named her "Distinguished Graduate," and Delta Kappa Gamma--the international society of honored teachers-- named her "Friend of Education," for "someone outside the profession who has worked significantly toward improving the educational opportunities of others, and who has given outstanding service to promoting quality education."
Among the very many honors that Miss Nobisso books have received are five other awards for Show; Don't Tell! Secrets of Writing: the International Reading Association/Children's Book Council "Children's Choice Award," an American Booksellers Association BookSense "Pick of the Lists" citation, a Parents' Choice Award, a National Parenting Publications Award, and was a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Finalist.
Born February 9, 1953, in the Bronx, Miss Nobisso homeschooled her daughter, Maria Nicotra, the Art Director of Gingerbread House, the press they founded together. Miss Nobisso and her family live on the East End of Long Island.
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Loving story to share with your children!,
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I really love this book. It starts off with a baby's yawn and how contagious it is and soon the baby's mother is yawning, then the dog, then people all over the earth. The pictures show different international people and are beautiful and loving. My 26 month old really thinks it is funny because the pictures make me yawn as a I am reading it. The perfect bedtime story.
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