The yawn book /
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : Clarion books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]Copyright date: 2022Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (color) ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780358525936
- 0358525934
- Yawning -- Juvenile literature
- Yawning -- Social aspects -- Juvenile literature
- Respiration -- Juvenile literature
- Human physiology -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature
- Contagion (Social psychology) -- Juvenile literature
- Animals -- Juvenile literature
- Curiosities and wonders -- Juvenile literature
- Yawning -- Pictorial works
- Yawning -- Social aspects
- Human physiology -- Pictorial works
- Questions and answers
- Animals
- Children's questions and answers
- Contagion (Social psychology)
- Curiosities and wonders
- Human physiology
- Respiration
- Yawning
- 612.2/045 23
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Standard Loan (Child Access) | Harrison Library Easy Nonfiction | Harrison Library | Book | 612.2/KIM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610024231081 | |||
| Standard Loan (Child Access) | Hayden Library Easy Nonfiction | Hayden Library | Book | 612.2/KIM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610024231172 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Why do we yawn Do animals yawn And why are yawns so CONTAGIOUS Learn the answers to these questions and more in this fact-filled and funny nonfiction picture book for fans of Carson Ellis and Matt Lamothe.
Yawning: Everyone does it. But no one knows why.
Why did you yawn before your piano recital Do you yawn more than your grandmother And is your pet dog really yawning because you are Find out in The Yawn Book, a funny and fascinating book of facts, including the most unbelievable one: no one knows for sure why we yawn at all.
One thing we do know for sure...this book will definitely make you yawn!
"Informative and, intrinsically, interactive." --Kirkus
Includes bibliographical references.
"Why do we yawn? Do animals yawn? And why are yawns so CONTAGIOUS? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this fact-filled and funny nonfiction picture book. Why did you yawn before your piano recital? Do you yawn more than your grandmother? And is your pet dog really yawning because you are? Find out in The Yawn Book, a funny and fascinating book of facts, including the most unbelievable one: no one knows for sure why we yawn at all." --
Reviews provided by Syndetics
Kirkus Book Review
An eye- (not to mention mouth-) opening look into a common yet mysterious activity. "No, bugs don't yawn," as Kim pithily puts it, but nearly all other large animals, including penguins, snakes, and guinea pigs, do. Humans begin just 12 to 14 weeks after conception, more often as we grow and then less as we age. Why? There are no clear answers, but, as she observes, people often do it when bored, fatigued, hungry, or focusing on a task. Also, and perhaps most mysteriously of all, it's mightily contagious, as anyone viewing the author's neatly drawn, geometrically exact scenes of daintily yawning, diverse figures will discover. Picture books from Susan Bonners' Just in Passing (1989) on have conveyed the same lesson but usually as a means of pitching a wakeful tyke willy-nilly into slumberland. Here, past victims or caregivers curious about how that happens will get the same effect but with some background facts and findings on the phenomenon added in and capped with an unusually large list of sources cited. (This book was reviewed digitally.) Informative and, intrinsically, interactive. (Informational picture book. 4-7) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.There are no comments on this title.