“The Cat in the Hat” and “The Cat in the Hat Comes Back” were two of the books I’d lined up in our home library. Recently, my toddler asked me to read “The Cat in the Hat”.
“The Cat in the Hat” starts off with a boy and his sister, Sally stuck at home alone on a rainy day with nothing to do. As they sit staring out of the window, a Cat with a hat walks in and promises the kids “lots of good fun that is funny” and “good games we could play”.
The kids’ pet fish senses trouble and tries to advise the children to chase the Cat away but the cunning Cat stays on and starts his tricks:
- balancing on a ball;
- balancing an umbrella, the pet fish, a book, a cup and saucer, a cake and MORE and MORE things!
Of course, they soon come tumbling down creating a big mess…But the Cat introduces Thing 1 and Thing 2 who “help” to clean up…
Review: My boy *loved* watching the Cat balance the various items and got excited at the HUGE mess and of course, the two Things who cause even more havoc around the house.
As he learned the words of various things found around the house, he also learned about keeping his playthings back where they belong and tidying things up.
The best is that Dr. Seuss has managed to turn this simple children’s adventure into such an educational and fun story to read!
THE CAT IN THE HAT COMES BACK
The boy and his sister, Sally are asked by their Mother to help shovel snow off the driveway when the Cat shows up and tells them to continue with what they are doing – HE’s going into the house to “find something to do” O_O
The Cat ends up eating a cake in the bath tub with the water running! The boy chases the Cat out of the tub, only to find a PINK ring all around it. What’s worse, the Cat takes the Mother’s dress to clean the ring…
The rest of the story deals with how the Cat and and his troop of 26 “Little Cats” (named letters A – Z) tried to get rid of the PINK stain which spreads itself all over the house and the compound.
Review: Another exciting adventure with the Cat minus the Fish. Here, the book goes through letters of the alphabet and being responsible on their own.
My boy seemed to identify with the boy in the book because he was horrified too when the Cat used the Mother’s dress to clean the spot and also when the pink spot jumped from one place to another and grew so humongous that even the snow in the yard was PINK!
I think he felt as relieved as the kids were when the Cat restored the snow to its original, clean white 
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Oh yea…My kids love this story too!!! I personally don’t like this Cat (no thanks to the movie), but my kids love the mischieviousness in him.
Mott – Haha, I don’t like the Cat either (don’t think I’ll watch the movie coz Johnny Depp looks so menacing in it). But my boy gets really absorbed in the storyline, I have to read one book after another!
dear, you should get ‘the cat in the hat’ DVD for your kids. it’s one of the all time favorite for my girls (age 10 and 6 now). it’s highly recommended
Yammie – I’ll probably get it when he’s older coz when he saw Johnny Depp on the cover of the DVD, he said, “This one not nice! It’s scary…” LOL