The Cat in the Hat

"The Cat in the Hat" is an all time classic children's book by Dr. Seuss. Not only this Dr. Seuss book, but others such as "Green Eggs and Ham," "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish," and of course "How the Grinch stole Christmas" are popular books that many young children first learn to read from. Believe it or not, even though many children don't realize it, they're reading poetry when they read Dr. Seuss' books. "The Cat in the Hat" is a perfect example of poetry with the rhyming, rhthym, and play with words. The words that are used in this book are basic, primary words that children are first introduced to once they begin reading. The illustrations are somewhat basic too; well, at least the colors. The only colors that are used are red, blue, white, and black. The reason for this is probably in order to not get children confused and lost with the illustrations and colors as they begin to learn to read. And even though Dr. Seuss books contain a limited vocabulary, they become very popular among young children with their fun, outrageous characters and adventures. The crazy Cat in "The Cat in the Hat" and Thing 1 and Thing 2 appear to be the outrageous characters in this particular book who cause a lot of chaos and trouble. Surprisingly, the two young children don't really do anything about it. In fact, their fish is the only one who seems to have sanity and enough sense to know that their mother would not approve at all. The book ends with the mother not ever finding out about it, yet the children still and will probably never forget the nonsense that went on that rainy day when they didn't have anything to do.