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The little lion who yawns

Nala's yawn travels all around the savannah. Nobody can resist it, not even the elephant.

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The sun is setting over the savannahA very big land of tall warm grasses, where lions live.. Everything turns orange, then pink, then almost purple, and the air grows cool. Nala the little lion is lying in the warmNot hot and not cold: gentle and pleasant, like a nice bath. grass, between his mother's paws. He opens a great big mouth.

Aaaah! A yawnThe big open mouth that comes out on its own when you are sleepy. as big as a mountain, with tiny pointed teeth in the middle.

The giraffe sees it from up there, right at the top of her neck. She tries to resist. She clenches her teeth hard. She cannot. Aaaah! A yawnThe big open mouth that comes out on its own when you are sleepy. as long as her neck, travelling all the way down.

The zebra sees the giraffe yawnThe big open mouth that comes out on its own when you are sleepy.. Aaaah! A yawn with black and white stripes.

The monkey sees the zebra. Aaaah! A yawnThe big open mouth that comes out on its own when you are sleepy. that nearly knocks him off his branch. Even the elephant, who is very serious and never yawns in front of others, opens his great big mouth. Aaaaaaah!

The yawnThe big open mouth that comes out on its own when you are sleepy. carries on its journey across the savannahA very big land of tall warm grasses, where lions live.. The gazelles, one by one. The pink flamingos, all together.

It even wakes the old crocodile in the river, who yawnThe big open mouth that comes out on its own when you are sleepy.s showing far too many teeth. It travels all the way around the savannahA very big land of tall warm grasses, where lions live., past the baobab, and comes back to Nala. “Oh no,” says Nala. And he yawns again, twice, three times.

So the whole savannahA very big land of tall warm grasses, where lions live. lies down in the warmNot hot and not cold: gentle and pleasant, like a nice bath. grass. A yawnThe big open mouth that comes out on its own when you are sleepy. is something you give away like a present: it always comes back to you.

The end, sweet dreams.

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