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Title: Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel ISBN: 0-394-80038-9 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 January, 1965 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (35 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Fox In Socks
Comment: This book is good because people could learn to read with it. They could even learn English with a lot of Dr. Seuss books. He made many books rhyme. He made many books so people could learn to read easily in low level so little kids could read it. They are going to have fun because it is hard to read rhyme books. I like it because peolple could read it in their own level not getting confused with the letters.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Dr. Seuss tongue twisting workout!
Comment: Dr. Seuss has created another entertaining children's classic with "Fox in Socks." The plot is simple: the clever title character dazzles his friend Knox with a series of increasingly complex tongue twisters. Along the way, Seuss reveals a number of fantastic images: a marching band in which all the musicians are pigs, a crow in a top hat, and more.
The book even has a touch of science fiction when the Fox introduces Knox to a weird lake of chewing gum-like blue goo. But it's the tongue twisting rhymes that are the central attraction of this book. By the time you get to the "muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle," you will certainly appreciate Seuss's writerly virtuosity. This is a fun book, and the Fox earns his place alongside Seuss's most memorable characters.
Rating: 5
Summary: What other Dr. Seuss book comes with a warning label?
Comment: On the front cover of "Fox in Socks," one of the "I Can Read It All By Myself" Beginner Books authored and illustrated by Dr. Seuss there appears the following warning:
"This is a book you READ ALOUD to find out just how smart your tongue is. The first time you read it, don't go fast! This Fox is a tricky fox. He'll try to get your tongue in trouble."
Just in case you missed the small print on the cover as soon as you open the book there is an even larger warning instructing you to "Take it Slowly" becaseu "This Book is Dangerous!" If that is not an invitation for young kids to read a book, then I do not know what would be. However, there is a good chance that your tongue will be numb by the time you finish read about "Knox on fox in socks in box," "Six sick bricks tick," and "Sue sews socks of fox in socks now." But if you can call something "a tweetle bettle noodle poodle bottled paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks," then you need not be a-feared of anything else you ever read in the rest of your life.
"Fox in Socks" is dedicated to Mizi Long and Audrey Dimond of the Mt. Soledad Lingual Laboratories, who I suspect helped Theodor Geisel identify the specific phonetics that beginning readers would have to work on (I had to spend a week repeating some nonsense about "thirty thousand boys with thirty thousand drums" to work on the "th" sound). When you remember that the genesis for "The Cat in the Hat" was the idea of taking 220 basic words, rhyming them, and turning them into a book that would make children more interested in reading than having to deal with Dick, Jane, Sally, and Spot ("See Spot Run. Run Spot Run. Fetch the ball, Spot"). "Fox in Socks" is a clear reminder that these books are not just a lot of fun when you read "Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes" but also educational, in the best sense of the word.
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Title: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by DR SEUSS ISBN: 0394800133 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 March, 1960 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: Green Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books) by Dr. Seuss ISBN: 0394800168 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 August, 1960 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss ISBN: 039480001X Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 March, 1957 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel ISBN: 039480029X Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 February, 1963 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss ISBN: 0394800788 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 August, 1954 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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