Line #8 Literature/DrSeusssSleepBook


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3	''Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book'' is a 1962 picture book written and illustrated by Creator/DrSeuss. It shows what a large number of people or animals do to prepare for bed or what happens after they fall asleep.
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5	!!This book includes examples of the following tropes:
6	* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: The mounts of the zizzer-zoof seed salesman wear masks.
7	* AgonyOfTheFeet: The zizzer-zoof seed salesman's feet are said to be sore, though presumably this is from running around all day trying to sell their wares rather than from any injury.
8	* AlliterativeName: The yawning bug's name is Van Vleck.
9	* AmusingInjuries: The Crandalls sleepwalk with candles on their heads and sometimes burn themselves.
10	* BigEater: One sleepwalking group needs to eat several times per night so that they can keep up their strength.
11	* CartoonCreature: True to Dr. Seuss, many characters don't have a named species and look like vaguely-defined, furry humanoids.
12	* EleventyZillion: At the end of the book, "99 zillion 9 trillion and 2" animals are asleep.
13	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Zizzer-Zoof seed salesmen are not very successful, because no one wants their wares.
14	* {{Flight}}: The Offt are minus one pound, so light that they can fly.
15	* ForWantOfANail: Had Van Vleck, a tiny bug, not yawned, all those creatures would still be awake.
16	* GettingReadyForBedPlot: Everyone is getting ready to go to bed for the whole of this story.
17	* GoToSleepEnding: A meta example; the book ends with the narrator talking the ''reader'' into going to sleep.
18	* HeavySleeper: The Crandalls, who sleepwalk with candles on their heads, manage to stay asleep even when they burn themselves with the grease that falls from their headgear.
19	* IgnorantAboutFire: The Crandalls put candles on their heads before bed, knowing that they sleepwalk, so they know where they are when they wake up. They occasionally burn themselves but sleep through it all.
20	* IrritationNightmare: Apparently, whenever the moose or the goose dreams of drinking the other one's juice, they'll fall out of bed screaming.
21	* MeaningfulName: One guy famous for his snoring is named ''Snorter'' [=McPhail=].
22	* NoFullNameGiven:
23	** The first names of the Herk-Heimer Sisters are unknown.
24	** We see that three members of the Hinkle-Horn Honking Club are named George, Henry, and Freddy, but we don't know their surnames, if they have any.
25	** We don't know the first names of Mr. and Mrs. J Carmichael Krox, nor what the "J" stands for.
26	* NoNameGiven: The only characters with names are Van Vleck, the Herk-Heimer Sisters, three members of the Hinkle-Horn Honking Club (George, Freddy, and Henry), Jo and Mo Red-Zoff, Mr. and Mrs. J Carmichael Krox.
27	* AnOddPlaceToSleep: Some creatures sleep on a barber shop pole, others on steps, strings, floors, and in mailboxes and keyholes.
28	* RhymeThemeNaming: The Red-Zoff brothers are named Jo and Mo.
29	* SantaClaus: Briefly mentioned when it says that Jo and Mo Red-Zoff talk about Santa Claus in their sleep.
30	* {{Sleepwalking}}: A number of the creatures walk in their sleep.
31	* SpoofAesop: At one point, the narrator warns the reader never to drink in their dreams, lest they have a nightmare about having the wrong drink and wake up screaming.
32	* SuperScream: An unintentional example; Snorter [=McPhail=] and his band of snorers have to sleep in a cave twenty miles away so that they don't destroy the town with their nightly snores.
33	* TalkingInYourSleep: Brothers Jo and Mo Redd-Zoff, the world's finest sleep-talkers, have been at it every night for 55 years, discussing a variety of topics with each other.
34	* ThemeTwinNaming: Implied. The Red-Zoff brothers are named Jo and Mo, and they're implied to be twins, since they've apparently both been sleep-talking for 55 years.
35	* TongueTwister: The "moose/goose juice" portion of the poem.
36	* WackyWakeUpGadget: The Chippendale Mupp bites its own tail before going to sleep - its tail is so long that it takes eight hours for it to notice the bite.

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