Making Reading Fun with Dr. Suess
Making Reading Fun with Dr. Suess.
Put your hands up if you love Dr. Suess! Who doesn’t right. Surely reading Dr. Suess as a child is a right of passage, I loved reading them as a kid and still love them as an adult. Life is just so much more fun in a Dr. Suess story. Olivia is also a big fan and The Cat in The Hat was one of the first books she enjoyed to read on her own too.
Harper Collins have taken 4 of the classics to bring fresh colour into reading for a new generation. Olivia received 2 of these to read and review in the form of One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish and The Cat in The Hat. The other titles available are Fox in Socks and of course Green Eggs and Ham.
The books are beautifully illustrated and I love the contrasts with the white next to the colours too it really makes it pop! One of the main things I love about these books is that the words flow with the illustrations making it so much more fun to read for younger children as oppose to a big block of text.
As we all know the beauty in these books is the rhyming and repetition making it fun to read out loud and listen to alike. Children learn through repetition and Dr. Suess uses limited vocabulary and rhymes with similar words to help children as they learn to read. Also The Cat in the Hat only has 246 words. I think this is what appealed to Olivia as a reluctant reader. I suppose there is nothing more boring to a non bookworm than a big chunk of text on a plain page. The Cat in The Hat is the complete opposite! If you don’t currently own any Dr. Suess books you need to asap!
Don’t they look great, I much prefer them to the ones we already have. They would be lovely to have as a full complete set for anyone’s bookcase.
Each book has an RRP of £6.99 and are available to buy on Amazon right now.
The Cat in The Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish and Fox In Socks
If you need any more convincing have a read of some fun facts about Dr. Suess,
*Dr. Suess is the worlds best selling children’s author with over 650 million books sold world wide.
*The correct pronounciation of Suess rhymes with ‘Voice’ however readers naturally pronounced it as ‘Soose’ and so it was changed.
*1 in 4 American children receive Dr. Suess as their first book.
*Dr. Suess drove a car with a ‘GRINCH’ license plate.
If you would like to win yourself your very own Dr. Suess book we have kindly been allowed to to give one away to our readers. Enter via the Rafflecopter widget below to win a copy of Green Eggs and Ham.
Please enter all options correctly as all entries will be checked and verified. Any non correct entries will be disqualified. The Competition will run from 17/05/16 until midnight 31/05/16. The prize isn’t supplied by myself and will be dispatched from the competition sponsor. This is a UK only competition for over 18’s.
Comments
the cat in the hat is my favourite
Cat in the hat
The Cat In The Hat – such a good children’s book xx
One fish two fish red fish blue fish! My daughter really enjoyed that one from a young age.
I loved cat in the hat and also percy the park keeper 🙂
I loved Cat in the Hat; Thing 1 and Thing 2 are hilarious
The cat in the hat
Definitely The Cat in The Hat – a classic!
the cat in the hat
Got to be the cat in the hat
Green Eggs and Ham is actually my favourite!
The cat in the hat
The Cat in the Hat
The Grinch is our favourite Dr Suess book
Thank you for the chance
The Cat in the Hat
Green eggs and ham
Five Go Off In A Caravan
The Cat in the Hat was my fave, I knew it from cover to cover
Loved cat in the hat as kis
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The cat in the hat
I love The Cat in the Hat.
The car on the hat , my favorite x
The Cat in the Hat was always my favourite.
Cat in the hat here too! Would love to win for my son, he’d love these!
green eggs and ham
I’ve never read any of the books – feel like i’ve missed out!
Green eggs and ham was definitely my fave
Cat in the hat
I like The Cat in the Hat
I always loved the cat in the hat
The Lorax is a great read, but our favourite still has to be The Cat In The Hat.
my grandaughter loves the cat in the hat x
We love One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish! Thanks for linking up with #TriedTested
How the grinch stole Christmas
Horton Hears a Who!
Cat in the Hat is my favourite 🙂
I loved the Lorax
For me I loved cat in the hat
I loved the Famous Five books.
The Lorax is brillant
“There’s a wocket in my pocket”
The Cat in the Hat is good!
Memories of reading The Lorax to my daughter. I would be sobbing as I read it, and my daughter would say, don’t cry mummy, it’s a book, it’s not real. Which would make me cry even more!
I liked ‘The Lorax’.
The Cat in the Hat
Green Eggs and Ham is my fave Dr Seuss book, and I would love to win a copy for my friend to read to her small twins xx
Green Eggs & Ham is my favourite Dr Suess book the rhymes in it are so much fun to read aloud.
The Cat in the Hat
The cat in the haf
It has the be How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
I Do, Its a little old for Lily yet but ive put it away for her, it was a gift from someone 😀
i love reading the grinch at christmas with my kids
Ginger’s Adventures = Ladybird book. Still got this book from when I was very small.
The Cat in the Hat was a favourite of mine 🙂
The Cat in the Hat, i think its the only one ive ever read
I love cat in the hat
i loved reading narnia when i was a child and its probably still my favourite !
It’s really hard to choose a favorite Dr Seuss book. As a child, I enjoyed One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and Marvin K Mooney Will You Please Go Now! When I graduated, I connected with Oh The Places You’ll Go (a typical graduation gift in the States). And Horray for Diffendoofer Day! (done with help from others based on manuscripts) is fantastic for overtested students and their stressed teachers.
The Cat in the Hat was mine too 🙂
Dr Seuss is always a firm favourite for me. I hope to win this so that i can share them with my son!! #triedtested
The Cat in the Hat
Cat in the Hat
When my kids was little it was The Cat in the hat…would love this for my grandson
The Cat in the hat, we love the film to
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The Cat in the Hat
My boys loved this series of books. We even had a bath book version of One Fish, Two Fish. I would love to see the musical Seussical sometime. I think my favourite is The Cat In The Hat Comes Back #triedtested
The Faraway Tree books were my favourites
I really enjoyed cat in the hat
These look great my eldest would love them X #triedtested
The Cat in the Hat!
Got to be the Cat in the Hat – classic!
This is one of my favourite Dr Seuss books. Thank you for a great giveaway 🙂
#triedtested
I liked The Cat in the Hat, but my favourites were the Secret Seven series by Enid Blyton