yawning

"As her mom reads a bedtime story, Lucy drifts off. But later, she awakens in a dark, still room, and everything looks mysterious. How will she ever get back to sleep?"--Dust jacket.

Simple text and photographs describe the theories about why people yawn.

Informative text and color photographs portray why and how people yawn. Includes a glossary and further resources.

Increasingly larger animals, from a little bug to a terrible tiger, open their mouths in yawns before closing their eyes to go to sleep.

A little girl who says she is not tired lets out a big yawn that spreads to others around the world before coming back to her house.

A young boy goes to summer camp and gets into trouble when he has a big yawn, a sneeze that gets paint on the drama teacher, and the hiccups, but learns that they are all uncontrollable actions of the human body.

A yawn is passed from a baby to an enormous number of people, one by one, until it comes back to the baby.

As night settles in, a baby's yawn travels around the world, inducing sleepiness everywhere.

A prize-winning yawner encounters steadily increasing troubles as he tries to get rid of the fly he accidentally swallows.

A little boy tries not to yawn before his bedtime.