Oh, how we all love Dr. Seuss! His wonderfully worded and rhythmic stories delight any child. The Cat in the Hat is a classic story of how children deal with the good vs. bad battle going on inside them. Should they do what they want to do or what they ought to do?
Dr. Seuss loved to create interesting characters, new words, rhyming passages, and instill didactic techniques in his storytelling.
Dr. Suess, although not a real doctor, was extremely intelligent. He used this book to help children learn to read. With his simple and often single-vowel vocabulary. He also finds a way to include a message that is really important such as taking care of the environment. The reader is having so much fun in the story, that the learning going on isn't always evident.
I believe a series that has the same tension as presented in the Cat in the Hat, is The Lemony Snicket series. It has that same tension of good vs bad. Both can be a bit controversial.
I don't really agree with teaching kids to do wrong to make things right. Sometimes we have to suffer for the sake of doing whats right.
Dr. Seuss loved to create interesting characters, new words, rhyming passages, and instill didactic techniques in his storytelling.
Dr. Suess, although not a real doctor, was extremely intelligent. He used this book to help children learn to read. With his simple and often single-vowel vocabulary. He also finds a way to include a message that is really important such as taking care of the environment. The reader is having so much fun in the story, that the learning going on isn't always evident.
I believe a series that has the same tension as presented in the Cat in the Hat, is The Lemony Snicket series. It has that same tension of good vs bad. Both can be a bit controversial.
I don't really agree with teaching kids to do wrong to make things right. Sometimes we have to suffer for the sake of doing whats right.
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