The Wacky Wonderful World of Dr Seuss
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Dr. Seuss ignites a child's imagination with his mischievous characters and zany verses.
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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go”. In this delightful book, Dr. Seuss celebrates the joys of reading, encouraging young children to take pride in their budding reading abilities.
With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide.
As the first step in a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching 17 of Dr. Seuss's best-selling books, including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. In response to consumer demand, the bright new cover designs incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels, with the standard paperbacks divided into three reading strands – Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. I Can Read With My Eyes Shut belongs to the Green Back Book range.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This Dr. Suess masterpiece has a clear message: Through reading you will find out lots of things! You don't want to miss anything, so keep at least one eye open. Some of the long, roll-off-your-tounge words included in this book are Mississippi and Indianapolis, which I had to explain to my boys. And of course there are some nonsense critters as well. This book can be read in under 5 minutes with both your eyes open. Good for ages 3-6, I reckon.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This excellent book is both repetitive and fun, and has been a great help in helping my daughter learn to read. School reading books are "boring" and this is just the opposite - eccentric, funny and lively paced. The repetetive elements of the book are brilliant at improving and encouraging fledgling readers, and have helped to build my daughter's confidence in her own reading ability. It's a really worthwhile book to aid early reading and surprisingly it's a book about reading to help with reading.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Library Binding
This is a fabulous book that every parent should read with their children!
Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute.
To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! was one of her picks.
To me, the brilliance of this book is in its title. This book encourages children to memorize this book. My four children all began to learn to read by first memorizing books. Then they could begin to match what they had memorized with words on the page. The next step was to then identify the word and be able to say it in an unmemorized book. Finally, they could read alone. Memorization is a key step, and I notice that many first-time parents don't realize that. Dr. Seuss provides the big clue here for children and parents. The choice of long words with funny sounds is particularly clever as a way to encourage memorizing. Who could decode Mississippi, Indianapolis, Hallelujah, Schenectady, and Wilkes-Barre the first time they saw them? Putting the place names on signs on a road emphasizes the child's obvious interest in becoming a driver some day. Brilliant!
Aside from the theme, the book has the great qualities of all Dr. Seuss's books for learning to read. There's lots of repetition. The adjectives can be translated into pictures, and the stories are humorously illustrated. For example, "I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too." The four color words are all printed in a larger type size in the color described. The Cat in the Hat is wearing pickle color glasses that match the words "pickle color" in the sentence above. The rhyming scheme used throughout also makes it easier to memorize and progress.
The book also has wonderful conceptual material such as left and right examples, being upside down, and how the order of words in a sentence affects their meaning (mice on ice, and ice on mice).
Then lest your child get a subliminal message to ignore what is going on around you, Dr. Seuss points out the advantages of having your eyes open. "You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut."
After you have helped your child to memorize this book and begin to notice these words around her or him, I suggest that you try writing a book like this with your child on the same theme. You will probably have to do the writing down of words, but your child can certainly do the illustrations. In the process, you can begin to help your child learn about rhyming if you want to be ambitious. Afterwards, I suggest that you ask your child to tell you how he or she is learning to read, to encourage more consciousness of the role of memorization. Your enjoyment of poetry will always be enhanced by memorization. I suggest you try some for yourself as well.
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Oh how we love Dr Seuss! This is a firm favourite, we read it for the first time in our Doctors surgery waiting room and I came home and ordered a copy straight away. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Glitterbug
A refreshing book
I bought this book for my 6 year old nephew. Having opened the book for the first time, I found myself reading the pages, once, twice and gradually realised the beauty of the words... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Zahra Reza
Poetry for children
Did you know how important rhyme is for brain development in our little ones? You read this to them; later on they read it for themselves. Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2010 by L. Gerrard
Another Dr Seuss Classic
My son started to read when he was 3, and got really enthusiastic about reading when I bought him The Cat In The Hat/The Cat In The Hat Comes Back. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2009 by Phil Rogers
Brilliant Encouragement for Memorization to Help Reading!
Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Brilliant Encouragement for Memorization to Help Reading!
This is a fabulous book that every parent should read with their children!
Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of... Read more
Published on 18 May 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Brilliant Encouragement for Memorization to Help Reading!
This is a fabulous book that every parent should read with their children!
Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of... Read more
Published on 18 May 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Can you read upside down?
This excellent book is both repetitive and fun, and has been a great help in helping my daughetr learn to read. Read more
Published on 7 May 2004
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