Customer Reviews
brill book - By: Mehajabeen Farid, 01 Mar 2008 
Dr. Seuss has done it again. He has written a lovely rhyme, which has been made into a movie which was really good, & he left me astounded. Remember: This book is based on the movie not the real rhyme by Dr. Seuss (I think)! Please check out all the other reviews I have written of other Dr. Seuss's books (the list is at the bottom) & please, please, please comment one!
Let's get back to the book; it starts at the Walden household when it was a total uproar. It finishesin the Walden household after, the Catin the Hat, the hero, finishes cleaning the whole place up & driving away!
This book is one of my favourites & I would rate it 9/ 10; I would recommend it to anyone who watched the movie but forgot about it & wanted to tell somebody else who hadn't watched the movie all about it. I would also recommend it to anybody who's a great Dr. Seuss fan, especially the young ones (around 5 - 7)
List of reviews on Dr. Seuss books:
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Foxin Socks
And this one (the Catin the Hat)
What? You haven't bought it yet? - By: Anna Abrahamyan, 29 May 2007 
Don't waste time reading reviewsin your wonderous pursuit of a convincing pitchline. You don't need a pitch to buy anything written by Dr. Seuss.
In his invincible style of ending stories with a question, this book does nothing but helping me to very diplomatically persuade my children to do & say the right thing. "So, what would you do if your mother asked you?" has the most astonishing effect on my three under-7 children. Their inner monsters are wiped away, their curious eyes are looking at me with a guilty smile shyly tucked somewhere around the nostrils & I always get a COLLECTIVE hug after reading it to them. Add this book & all the others written by Dr. Seuss to your library & never get bored when reading to them.
Yes, & don't forget, before resorting to philosophical analyses of Dr. Seuss's verse (just so you feel like the adult you are), don't shy away from just having fun (because fun is so fun, when you know how it's done).
A word just absurd - By: Kurt Messick, 28 Apr 2006 I could not not review this book
I could not let it be forsook
for on this day was Geisel born
that we should not be so forlorn
What would I do without the cat?
Where would I be without the hat?
I do not know, I can not say
I wouldn't want to see that day
Forin this book, so short & sweet
is such, for all, a great big treat
The cat of mischief, cat of wise
Cat with gleaming knowing eyes
And of the hat!
What's up with that?
Where did those stripes come from?
Yes I know
Poor grammar, oh,
I'm really not that dum!
I would the world would know the cat
I hope the world will wear the hat
Can such a book be left alone?
Can such a tale be overblown?
I thinkest not, I thought antiquely
For this is writing most uniquely
And such will never come again
To grace the page with such a pen
To give us such unbridled joy
To please and, yes, & to annoy
Butin the end to satisfy
With merriment & laughing sigh
For on this day we give our thanks
For treasure that is notin banks
But on the printed page before us
Thank you, oh dear Dr. Seuss!
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I wrote thisin honour of Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, on the anniversary of his birthday. Using a vocabulary of a mere 223 words, 'The Catin the Hat' has become a standard children's classic throughout the English-speaking world. I remember as a child delighting at the discovery of rhyming words & what fun they could be, & when coupled with the imaginative drawings & simple yet engaging plot lines, Dr. Seuss became my favourite almost instantly.
The plot of 'The Catin the Hat' is simple yet meaningful. A cat, a perfect creature for exhibiting independence & mischief, is befriended by children who express delight, astonishment, & occasional disapproval of their be-hatted feline. Children learn behaviourin a humourous & touching way by relating to the children.
However, all of Seussian literature was almost not to be. Geisel had literally dozens of rejections for his early works, from publishers who doubted the appeal or the marketability. Fortunately for us, Geisel continued to pursue both writing & publication, which he continued up to the time of his deathin 1991. He still had a book on the bestseller list at that time.
Long Live Dr. Seuss!
A word just absurd - By: Kurt Messick, 22 Dec 2005 I could not not review this book
I could not let it be forsook
for on this day was Geisel born
that we should not be so forlorn
What would I do without the cat?
Where would I be without the hat?
I do not know, I can not say
I wouldn't want to see that day
Forin this book, so short & sweet
is such, for all, a great big treat
The cat of mischief, cat of wise
Cat with gleaming knowing eyes
And of the hat!
What's up with that?
Where did those stripes come from?
Yes I know
Poor grammar, oh,
I'm really not that dum!
I would the world would know the cat
I hope the world will wear the hat
Can such a book be left alone?
Can such a tale be overblown?
I thinkest not, I thought antiquely
For this is writing most uniquely
And such will never come again
To grace the page with such a pen
To give us such unbridled joy
To please and, yes, & to annoy
Butin the end to satisfy
With merriment & laughing sigh
For on this day we give our thanks
For treasure that is notin banks
But on the printed page before us
Thank you, oh dear Dr. Seuss!
------------------------
I wrote thisin honour of Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, on the anniversary of his birthday. Using a vocabulary of a mere 223 words, 'The Catin the Hat' has become a standard children's classic throughout the English-speaking world. I remember as a child delighting at the discovery of rhyming words & what fun they could be, & when coupled with the imaginative drawings & simple yet engaging plot lines, Dr. Seuss became my favourite almost instantly.
The plot of 'The Catin the Hat' is simple yet meaningful. A cat, a perfect creature for exhibiting independence & mischief, is befriended by children who express delight, astonishment, & occasional disapproval of their be-hatted feline. Children learn behaviourin a humourous & touching way by relating to the children.
However, all of Seussian literature was almost not to be. Geisel had literally dozens of rejections for his early works, from publishers who doubted the appeal or the marketability. Fortunately for us, Geisel continued to pursue both writing & publication, which he continued up to the time of his deathin 1991. He still had a book on the bestseller list at that time.
Long Live Dr. Seuss!
Cat and Chaos - By: Joanna Daneman, 25 Sep 2004 The Catin the Hat has no other name--symbolic of his role as Chaos. He comes to visit two children, the predictable (asin "orderly") Boy & Girl at home. Inexplicably, the parents have left these two underaged children at home with no babysitter & no good sense to refuse entry to a patently dangerous beast who has regrettable tastein headgear. This is significant; despite the fact Mom And Dad represent Orderin the equation, they introduce Chaos into the system by abandoning their kids. From that small oversight, the rest of the chaotic events unfold with Greek-tragedy-like inevitability, though with an unpredictable outcome. How like the universe this is; the starsin their courses, but the weather is utter madness.
The Cat roams rampant through the suburban home, pretty much doing what you & I & these two kids would LOVE to do but wouldn't dare--everything Mom & Dad tell you "not to." In psychological terms, the Cat is fulfilling the deepest desires of the children--to be really, really BAD, but without any consequences whatsoever. It's alluring, giddy, intoxicating, & it's SCARY, too. Disorder, like a roller-coaster ride, runs frighteningly & ultimately, downhill.
Just before the authoritarian ORDER figures Mom-and-Dad reappear on the scene, the Cat uses an unlikely device to vacuum up the mess & restore all as it was--in essence, reversing entropy. This is accomplished effortlessly & with no visible source of power. Here is a golden opportunity to discuss the Second Law of Thermodynamics* with your kids. A good exercise would be to try to calculate the energy that would have been required to run such a device. Question: would the device the Cat uses to clean the mess be able to run off a car battery, or would it require, oh, say, a fast-breeder reactor the size of Yokahama? You do the math.
This endurable children's classic is essential to teaching the young about responsibility, temptation, thermodynamics & chaos theory. You can't begin too early.
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*The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that "in all energy exchanges, if no energy enters or leaves the system, the potential energy of the state will always be less than that of the initial state." This is also known as entropy--or disorder.
