Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

by Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss (Illustrator)

Overview

The possibilities are endless in Dr. Seuss’s classic Beginner Book!

Young readers will delight in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! which celebrates the imagination and encourages young readers to think . . . about thinking! “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the Thinks you can think up if only you try.”

Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780394831299
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	08/28/1975
Series:	I Can Read It All By Myself Beginner Books Series
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	16,744
Product dimensions:	6.81(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.34(d)
Lexile:	240L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL—aka Dr. Seuss—is one of the most beloved children’s book authors of all time. From The Cat in the Hat to Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, his iconic characters, stories, and art style have been a lasting influence on generations of children and adults. The books he wrote and illustrated under the name Dr. Seuss (and others that he wrote but did not illustrate, including some under the pseudonyms Theo. LeSieg and Rosetta Stone) have been translated into thirty languages. Hundreds of millions of copies have found their way into homes and hearts around the world. Dr. Seuss’s long list of awards includes Caldecott Honors for McElligot’s Pool, If I Ran the Zoo, and Bartholomew and the Oobleck, the Pulitzer Prize, and eight honorary doctorates. Works based on his original stories have won three Oscars, three Emmys, three Grammys, and a Peabody.

Date of Birth:

March 2, 1904

Date of Death:

September 4, 1991

Place of Birth:

Springfield, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

La Jolla, California

Education:

B.A., Dartmouth College, 1925; Oxford University (no degree)

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Contains one of Dr. Seuss's solid-gold morals, the joy of letting one's imagination rip."—The New York Times.  

Editorial Reviews

"Contains one of Dr. Seuss's solid-gold morals, the joy of letting one's imagination rip."—The New York Times.  

From the Publisher

A current trend in publishing is to repackage popular children's picture books as board books for the very young. With some books, like Margaret Wise Brown's classic, Goodnight Moon, this makes sense, as the text is already perfectly suited for the youngest set, and putting it on thick sturdy pages helps it outlast the "book as a teething toy" stage. The question then, is how well does this Dr. Seuss classic—which was never intended for the toddler set—hold up to this transformation? The original forty-eight pages have been trimmed down to a mere twenty. The pages that stayed seem to match a two-year-old's interests—colors, day and night, light and dark. Children will respond well to the cadence and rhythm of the text, which nonsense words such as "Schlopp" and "Zong." Indeed, the singsong feel quickly reminds the reader of baby's first poetry—Mother Goose and other nursery rhymes. Although the grandeur of the marvelous things one can imagine is lost in the smaller pages, Seuss' bright colors will certainly hold their interest. In general, though it will not replace the original, this adaptation will effectively introduce little ones to one of the giants of children's literature. Reviewer: Heather Christensen

Children's Literature - Heather Christensen