The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss, Simon Mugford · first published 1957
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Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat, who shows them some tricks and games. Includes a Latin-English glossary and a note on the verse form and rhythm.
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…to limit them a few hours a day or less. The ability to relax and be bored is essential to support the desire to read. We did it an hour before bed every night under warm lighting. Loved Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, Grinch, Oh, the Places You'll Go! Engelbreit's Mother Goose, Nursery Rhymes set. Loved The Police Cloud by Chris Neimann, and Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton. We liked The Giving Tree,…
on “Ask HN: Books your kids like most” ↗90's Consoles are available on eBay or most video games shops :) Turns out what was fun for you at age 5 will be fun for your kids at age 5. Just the same as The Cat In The Hat is still a beloved book. I personally have found this to be the absolute winner of a solution.
on “TIL: Parental Controls Aren't for Parents” ↗1. The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats) 2. The Cat in the Hat (Dr. Seuss) 3. 1984 (George Orwell) 4. Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak) 5. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) 6. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) 7. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) 8. How to…
on “Most frequently checked-out books in the history of the New York Public Library” ↗…can take new ideas and further imagine the different outcomes without typing a single key. As a coder looking at a blank new JS file, when I ask myself, "What should we do?" I'm quoting Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat. I should probably go to work now, and like in the book, I'll be spending most of my day breaking perfectly fine things cursing myself for not writing more tests.
on “How and Why I Taught My Toddler to Read (2010)” ↗I'm amazed that given the depth of Dr Seuss's work its stuff like Cat in the Hat that is the most exposed. Ever since I went through his work to read to a small child I know i've been amazed at how useful and framed in reality the less known stories are (e.g. Sneeches at Beaches,…
on “Dr. Seuss’ arms race allegory” ↗…of where the meaningful information is in the genome? In Shakespeare or Dr. Seuss it’s in the combinatorial power of language to express concepts. With just 200 words Seuss could write stories like the Cat in the Hat. Is genetics similar?
on “How much innate knowledge can the genome encode?” ↗…words and write a book using only those words. Spaulding challenged Geisel to 'bring back a book children can't put down.' Nine months later, Geisel, using 236 of the words given to him, completed The Cat in the Hat." -- Wikipedia Dr. Seuss: Language hacker
on “Dr. Seuss Book: Yes, They Found It in a Box” ↗…flexibility. I think I was a little slow, or at best normal in picking up reading as a kid. But for whatever reason, by about the age of 8 I was reading well ahead of the rest. So I never read The Cat in the Hat, but I read the The Hobbit long before most kids. And I'm glad, because that second level is where the real power-tool lies. There's little point reading non-fiction at Cat in the Hat level. But there's…
on “Mathematical games interesting to both you and a five-year-old child” ↗Your language seems needlessly hyperbolic to me. A handful of fairly obscure Dr. Seuss books are going to be harder to buy. It's not like Cat in the Hat is #cancelled or anything. This is an "execution"? Maybe try using language proportionate to the offence here.
on “Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay” ↗…already, but that was due to a bet! > The vocabulary of the text consists of just 50 words and was the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss's publisher, that Seuss (after completing The Cat in the Hat using 236 words) could not complete an entire book without exceeding that limit. The 50 words are a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham,…
on “Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay” ↗…existing familiarity with the codebase. But arguing that code readability isn't at thing, because it's subjective, is an absurd take. Would you claim that Joyce's Ulysses is equally readable as Seuss's The Cat in the Hat?
on “What is “good taste” in software engineering?” ↗…Seuss books that the rights-holder refuses to print more copies of, such as McElligot's Pool, costs over 100 dollars; whereas a Dr. Seuss book that the rights-holders haven't judged as racist, such as The Cat in the Hat, costs about $5.
on “Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb” ↗…buy for 4-year-old kids. (the intersection of things 4-year-olds like and the things that won't offend or embarrass parents) There really isn't much adult fiction with the vocabulary at the level of The Cat in the Hat.
on “How I Taught My Kid to Read” ↗Burned? Blah. The Cat in the Hat, Atlas Shrugged and probably others from that list are still popular. The books are still being printed and sold, not being hidden away from society.
on “What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014” ↗As a parent that has read "Cat in the Hat" countless times to two children, that first entry on the page is a poetic monstrosity. Cute, but terrible.
on “Epic Pull Requests” ↗