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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
Author: Dr. Seuss

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back is the sequel to the famous book "The Cat in the Hat". It was first published in 1958. Teachers wanted a book more suitable for teaching children to read. This book teaches the alphabet from A through Z. It solves a problem with The Cat in the Hat. The Cat in the Hat ends with the children, a little girl named Sall... more »y and the little boy, who is the narrator and is unnamed, trying to decide whether to tell their mother what had happened while she was away. This was not a good way to end a children's book. It was no doubt one of the reasons why teachers were reluctant to use that book to teach children to read. The Cat in the Hat is the most famous children's book ever written. It came into being because of complaints that the book most widely used to teach children how to read, ?Fun With Dick and Jane?, depicted two squeaky clean children playing politely and respectfully with each other and with their dog Spot and saying things like ?Run Spot Run?. Real children do not play like that. That book is filled with short simple sentences such as ?Dick said, 'Look look. Look Up. Up, Up, Up'?. Almost all children my age were given the book ?Fun With Dick and Jane? in school to learn to read. Even when I was five years old, I was able to recognize that the stories were stupid. I do not know how many kids made a dirty story out of it. I know I did, calling it ?Fun with Dick in Jane?. John Hersey, author of the famous book ?Hiroshima? that is still used today to teach basic reading and writing skills to high school and college students, was critical of ?Fun with Dick and Jane? as being uninteresting to children, as was the famous book ?Why Johnny Can't Read?. Dr. Seuss (a pen-name of Theodor Seuss Geisel) was approached and asked to write a book that children ages 6 and 7 could read and understand and would find interesting. He spent two years working on this rejecting many ideas because they used words that children that age might not understand. Finally he come upon an idea by using the words Cat and Hat. He spent another year working on this idea finally produced that book that was first published in March, 1957. The book was an instant success but the textbook division of his publisher was disappointed because school teachers did not want to use the book in school for obvious reasons. They preferred the nice and polite little children such as Dick and Jane for school use. However, The Cat and the Hat sold millions of copies in the book stores so finally Dick and Jane had to be killed off and put to sleep. Spot was sent to the pound. Surprisingly, so many original Dick and Jane books were thrown away that it has become a rare and expensive used book nowadays.

ISBN-13: 9784871876964
ISBN-10: 4871876969
Publication Date: 1/27/2015
Pages: 66
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Publisher: Ishi Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Ralph R. (rwx) reviewed The Cat in the Hat Comes Back on 3/3/2006 + 141 more book reviews

Beautiful and colorful illustrations. Great rhyming! Classic Suess! Great for the beginning reader!

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Kimberly G. (kgerdes) reviewed The Cat in the Hat Comes Back on 10/21/2005 + 28 more book reviews

Cat in the Hat beginner reader

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