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As is typical for Dr. And there's not much plot. Seuss, this book combines simple rhymes with nonsense.There is great value for young readers in reading nonsense words. It teaches them to quickly and automatically sound out words they have never seen before. This, too, is an advantage - when you're struggling to read you're likely to lose track of what you've read by the end of the sentence. If you have to think back three pages for everything to make sense, well, that's frustrating.Some of the words are a little difficult for VERY early readers - bureau springs to mind.
Dr. Seuss never disappoints with the silly rhyming and illustrations. I bought this for my 2-year-old and he loves listening to and looking at each silly page.
My son had this read to him for the first time at 2 months and he just sat and listened. This is an excellent and fun book.
When she was young, my daughter loved this book. The rhymes are so wonderful and the creatures somehow match their images. The Zlock somehow looks like a Zlock, the Zelf like a Zelf and the Bofa like a Bofa. Do your child a favor and enrich their life by reading this book to them.
My 4 year old daughter is quite interested in this book but doesn't really like it. However the story is almost pointless. She keeps hoping, (I think) that there is more too it.The joy in this book is that it is all about rhymes, nureau's in the bureau, tellar, sellar, bellar etc in the cellar and so on. Which is a nice early rhyme style story - learning about sounds and I guess you could say the texture and rules of language. Some of these animals are good and some aren't - but it is difficult to tell while - the Nofa on the Sofa is apparently an animal he doesn't like, but it just appears to be reading a book quietly.I found the illustrations a bit unsatisfying as well. They are in colour, but when I compare them to the glorious detail of Horton Hatches an Egg (which is only coloured in three colours) then the Wocket in the Pocket does not match by any stretch of the imagination.It is a simple easy story to rattle off at bedtime, it teaches rhyme but it doesn't inspire my children.
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