"Yawning is contagious, like laughter. Once one starts, they all have to do it ... " Just as infectious as the wide-eyed yawn of the tired beetle Willi van Wann is the exuberant wit of this book: it has never been more fun to go to bed!
to go to bed!
The big yawn of the little beetle Willi van Wann spreads like wildfire, first to his seven best beetle buddies, then to the Fluffi-Flaum birds, then to the Herkheimer-Schwgels.then the Fluffi-Flaum birds, then the Herkheimer sisters who brush their teeth in the evening by thundering waterfalls, finally the drawbridge puller from Knupperbogen Castle, the Hinkelhorn brass club and everyone else, of course. Everywhere they snooze, sleep, snore quietly, in corners, gaps and nooks - even on shaving foam brushes! Meanwhile, the counting machine counts each new sleeper, more by the second, and in the end there are billions, trillions, trillions ... Originally published in 1962, this children's classic is now available in German for the first time: sleepwalkingly sure and fantastically funny translated by Nadia Budde. This book will make even the most querulous readers and listeners laugh - a bedtime book in a class of its own.