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The Cat in the Hat


 * The Cat in the Hat is about a young brother and sister. One day their mother leaves them home alone on a rainy day, and a Cat in a s **** triped red and white hat comes in and starts showing them wacky tricks, and fun games. Then, the cat gets a box from outside. And out of the box comes two creatures named, Thing One and Thing Two, who start to fly a kite in the house! Sally and her older brother try to control the cat and the Things. At the end, the Cat cleans up the mess they made and leaves just a second before Sally and her brother's mother returns home. When she gets inside she asks what they did while she was out. **
 * The Cat in the Hat was published in 1957. Years before this, discussion was going on wondering if children were learning enough in school. William Ellsworth Spaulding, Suess's friend, who was the director of Houghton Mifflin's education division, invited **** Suess to a dinner in Boston. At this dinner **
 * he requested that Suess would write and illustrate a book for kids around the age of six or seven. He told Suess, "Write me a story that first-graders can't put down!" Suess was supplied with a list of 348 words that every six and seven year old should know. Spaulding insisted the books' vocabulary would be limited to 225 words. It took 9 months before Dr Suess finished writing the Cat in the Hat. The story included 223 **** words that were on Spaulding's list, and another 13 words that were not on the list. The Cat in the Hat is 1629 words long and uses a vocabulary of only 236 words. **

Horton Hears a Who ==Horton Hears a Who is about Horton, an elephant, who hears something odd coming from a small speck of dust. This sound turns out to be Whos, who are a people, who live in Whoville. Horton can hear them only because of his large elephant ears. The mayor of Whoville asks Horton to protect all Whos. Horton agrees, and says, "A person's a person no matter how small." The other animals in the jungle where Horton lives think he's crazy and that there is no way there could be tiny people living on this speck of dust, especially because they can't hear them. Horton lets the Whos know that they have to make enough noise for the jungle animals to hear, or== ==they will end up being boiled in Beezelnut Oil. The Whos gather together and scream and shout and play instruments as loud as they can, but in the end its a little Who, JoJo, whose screaming adds enough volume for the jungle animals to hear. Now that they believe these small Whos really exist, the animals promise to help Horton protect them. Horton showed kindness and persistence in how he did everything he could to help these tiny little strangers. He spent multiple hours going through a field of flowers looking and listening for the one flower where Whoville is. He even stood up to all of the creatures in his jungle, and wouldn't even let it go when they threatened to boil them! And he stood up for what he believed in when he said, "A person's a person no matter how small." I think the lessons in this book are kindness, persistence, helping others, and standing up for what you believe in.==

Green Eggs and Ham


 * Sam I Am, the main character in Green Eggs and Ham, tries to get his roommate to taste a disgu **** sting looking dish. The roomate declines, but Sam I Am does everything he can to convince the roommate to eat the green eggs and ham. In the end, the roommate is very annoyed with Sam I Am nagging him, so he takes one small bite and he finds out it's not **** too bad after all. In fact, he kind of likes it! Sam I Am's roommate tried something new and ended up liking it! He realizes that even though it may look a little gross, that has nothing to do with how it tastes. **** I think this book teaches the reader to try something new, and to not judge something by the way it looks. **

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