15 December 2011

Dr. Seuss's "ABC" (Dr. Seuss, 1963)



Logline:

The ABCs are pretty great when you get right down to it. Storied, too.

London:

I like how everything is alliteration'ed.

Ben:

I can't tell you how much I like everything about this book: The illustrations are delightful ("Jim is after him" is downright scary), the random swaths of letters - "spelling ax and extra fox" (why would you need an extra fox?) - and the way the children seem to respond to learning their ABCs.

What it would be like to be in this book:

London says: "If I were David Donald Doo, I would dream of just a duck dog, because I wouldn't have time to dream of a dozen donuts. Also, I would also have the biggest rhinoceros in the whole entire world (just like Rosy). Ben says "Darn tootin', Sammy Slick! Your mother told you that you'd get a belly ache! Why, oh why didn't you listen?"

1 comment:

  1. Here's a book that I think I can recite! I read it to some very special little boys and then two little girls...all loved it and I bet all could recite it with me!!!B-b-b-b, what begins with B, Barber, baby, bubbles and a bumble bee...

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