Whether you read them in your house or read them with a mouse, the cat the hat book from the set will thrill and inspire every child in the world of children's books. Every Dr Seuss book was written with the intention to delight and inspire while firmly instilling the English language with creative repetition & rhyme.
The first thing to do in order to discover this incredible world is to get the Dr Seuss Book Collection, currently offered as individual. It is fast and easy to find Dr Seuss Books online. The second thing is to then read the book that most delights you and your child. The Cat in a Hat is the publication that started the Dr Seuss legacy. But whether you do "thing one or thing two; thing two or thing one", you will have more fun than "anything under the sun".
Dr Seuss was not a doctor at all. Born Theodor Seuss Geisel in 1904, the seed for the talent that would bring us The Cat in a Hat and Green Eggs and Ham started with his mother, Henrietta. As a boy, Ted would listen to his mother chant rhymes in her father's bakery. These rhymes would help her remember the special pies of the day. She would string the names of each baked specialty making the menu easy to recite to customers.
Each Dr Seuss Book and every Character was the creative brainchild of this knack for rhyming and the honed skills that Ted acquired as the Dartmouth College editor of the Jack-O-Lantern magazine. An avid doodler and illustrator, his cartoon skills were then discovered and published by the Saturday Evening Post.
The budding master of many books for kids worked with Frank Capra's Signal Corps during WW2 creating effective animated training films that were hugely popular with young recruits. After the conflict, these combined talents would bring forth the artist who would create the best childrens books of the 20th Century without peer.
The Cat in a Hat was a children's primer of 220 "new-reader" words commissioned by Houghton Mifflin & Random House. The combined rhyming of a basic specialized vocabulary list combined with Dr Seuss uncanny illustrations placed Ted's creative works in the mainstream of childrens books from 1957 till today.
The blend of illustration and repetitive rhyme form the personality of each Dr Seuss character. Ted's specialized color selection portrays a unique harmonic contrast with each page of words. One's imagination can easily give movement to the still cast members.
Perhaps the moral aspect of each story in the Dr Seuss Book Collection is where the real gold lies. The highly expressive, quirky heroes teach children about human attitude. Yes, this was done with high humor to delight but also with great depth to make us observe and think.
Dr Seuss was clear to demonstrate the dangers of being selfish and stubborn. The self-centered loner, thriving on self-inflicted misery is exemplified beautifully in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. If you recall the film based on the story made famous with Jim Carrey, the Grinch hates all things happy and human (or so it seems). Fighting goodness to the last, his heart gradually opens due to the influence of the sweet Cindy Lou Who. Cindy, a small girl, has not just heart but the bravery to stand up to the cowardly Grinch. The rest of Whoville cowers.
A dreaded creature with a heart "two sizes too small" ends up with a "heart three times larger" when he learns that it's quite OK to be happy. He finds out that people are basically good and friends are cool. Likewise, Cindy and her fellow Whoville citizens are taught by the Grinch about the madness of materialistic consumerism. The consumerism and frantic buying and waste it created was one of the pet peeves that made The Grinch hate this whole "Christmas business" after all. He didn't hate the citizens of Whoville. It was their tomfoolery that got his goat; just the waste, the greed. It's a very important lesson that pertains to all of us, right here in the real world, right now and always. Both antagonist and protagonist learn and grow exponentially; everybody wins- no losers. Brilliant!
There is a similar "moral" point in each of these books which place them among the best books for kids in the world. Each Dr Seuss Book is a masterpiece of rhyme blended with colorful illustration allowing a child to discover the foolishness and greatness that lies in all of us. Each Dr Seuss story shows that it's all a matter of choice. We can choose how to be. We must receive the consequences or rewards of our choices; Universal Law in a child's story book. Each Dr Seuss Book creates a lot of fun while exercising vocabulary and uprooting the deep recesses of human nature. Just think, a blend of child like fun and colorful cartoons that address (and answer) the really tough questions of human nature. Pure genius!
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