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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.

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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

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