March 28, 2008

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  “The more you read, the more you know; the more you know, the more places you’ll go” - Amen Seussy

  Comment by Declan | March 28, 2008 at 3:13 pm
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  The Cat In The Hat is a fantastic book - just like any good kids book it’s just as enjoyable for an adult.

  The same rules applies to anything by Roald Dahl, who managed to write such dark and ugly and gruesome tales that still appealed to squeamish kids.

  Green Eggs and Ham, I’m not so fond of. Maybe that’s because I had to listen to it being read back in full by my girlfriend’s little brother during a car ride once.

  I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them, Sam I am. I do not like them on a plane, I do not like them on a train. I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them, Sam I am.

  Comment by Adam | March 28, 2008 at 3:16 pm
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  The Cat in the Hat, while a worthy literary acheivement, is vastly inferior to The Three Bill Goats Gruff, I find.

  TTBGG has great characterization, pacing and a taut drama running throughout. Dr. Seuss, while diverting, is lacking in some of this criteria.

  Comment by Brock Landers | March 28, 2008 at 3:18 pm
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  billy goats gruff may be great and dahl too but seuss has it all because the drawings are so class and he is a ryhnming genius. The modern stuff like the gruffalo is not as good. I dont even have kids!

  anyone know what that one was with all the animals like cats and dogs dressed up as firemen and truck drivers and stuff. And bin men. Do young kids now days still want to be bin men? That was second only to firemen in my day. Anything with man in it basically. There’s no man in investment banker, actuary or venture capitalist. However… I do see a niche for picture books aimed at parents anxious to mould their kids into future gold-winneres. Adam the Actuary

  Comment by Eamon Costello | March 28, 2008 at 5:15 pm
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  Wait until your little munchkin is old enough for Martin Waddel’s ‘Big Bear & Little Bear’ (soon) and Julia Donaldson’s wondrous books (starting of course with the Gruffalo).

  My monkeys are 8 and 10 now, so while we still read every night the wide-eyed thrill isn’t there in quite the same way …

  Comment by Rowan Manahan | March 28, 2008 at 5:34 pm
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  I just read Green Eggs and Ham tonight. What I love best about it is ebign able to have these mature moments of shared humour wiith my four year old, where we look each other and laugh in just the same way.

  I loved the Horton movie too.

  Have you read The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins?

  I had what I now recognise as a first edition version of it as a kid, which has now disappeared - grr arg!

  Comment by Jo | March 29, 2008 at 9:30 pm
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  Shane, ask Carmel about Cat in the Hat and then run for cover…

  Comment by Sean | March 31, 2008 at 8:53 am
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  The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle is also a classic, I remember getting this out of the library when I was a kid and I then bought it for my daughter when she was three. Its wonderful, in fact all his kids books are, absolutely wonderfully illustrated.

  Comment by red mum | March 31, 2008 at 1:25 pm
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  Just saw this and thought of you

  http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t73/kwelp68/catinthe.jpg

  Comment by Ian | March 31, 2008 at 5:39 pm

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