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From: mlgav
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:18:33 -0800 (PST)
Books: 'Cat in the Hat' Explained at Last An annotated ?Cat in the Hat? shows us why this durable masterpiece (it just turned 50) looks so wonderfully simple, and why it took a year and a half to create.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Malcolm Jones
Newsweek
Updated: 11:43 a.m. ET Feb 16, 2007
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Feb. 16, 2007 - If you were to approach 10 people on the street and ask each one to recite from any narrative poem, the odds are that maybe one of them could get off a few lines of ?Hiawatha? or ?The Raven.? But if you were to suggest that they could include the works of Theodore Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, the chances are that everyone born after 1950, or with children born after that date, could get off not just a few lines but perhaps whole book-length poems. He is, without doubt, the best-known American narrative poet of the last half of the 20th century. And not just best known: he?s one of the best.
In ?The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss and His Cats,? Philip Nel gives us a better grip on just why Dr. Seuss has so thoroughly captured the imaginations of several generations of readers?and the imaginations of their parents (when I was reading to my children, I would ?lose? other favorites night after night just to have another go at ?Fox in Sox? or ?Green Eggs and Ham? or, best of all, ?The Cat in the Hat,? and I never had a single complaint?family fun may be an oxymoron in almost every other instance, but we all loved Dr. Seuss).
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17186093/site/newsweek/
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mary gavlik
librarian
chuckey-doak middle school
afton, tx
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.
? Monty Python skit
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Received on Mon 19 Feb 2007 10:18:33 AM CST
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:18:33 -0800 (PST)
Books: 'Cat in the Hat' Explained at Last An annotated ?Cat in the Hat? shows us why this durable masterpiece (it just turned 50) looks so wonderfully simple, and why it took a year and a half to create.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Malcolm Jones
Newsweek
Updated: 11:43 a.m. ET Feb 16, 2007
function UpdateTimeStamp(pdt) { var n = document.getElementById("udtD"); if(pdt != '' & n & window.DateTime) { var dt = new DateTime(); pdt = dt.T2D(pdt); if(dt.GetTZ(pdt)) {n.innerHTML = dt.D2S(pdt,(('false'.toLowerCase()=='false')?false:true));} } } UpdateTimeStamp('633072409970800000');
Feb. 16, 2007 - If you were to approach 10 people on the street and ask each one to recite from any narrative poem, the odds are that maybe one of them could get off a few lines of ?Hiawatha? or ?The Raven.? But if you were to suggest that they could include the works of Theodore Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, the chances are that everyone born after 1950, or with children born after that date, could get off not just a few lines but perhaps whole book-length poems. He is, without doubt, the best-known American narrative poet of the last half of the 20th century. And not just best known: he?s one of the best.
In ?The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss and His Cats,? Philip Nel gives us a better grip on just why Dr. Seuss has so thoroughly captured the imaginations of several generations of readers?and the imaginations of their parents (when I was reading to my children, I would ?lose? other favorites night after night just to have another go at ?Fox in Sox? or ?Green Eggs and Ham? or, best of all, ?The Cat in the Hat,? and I never had a single complaint?family fun may be an oxymoron in almost every other instance, but we all loved Dr. Seuss).
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17186093/site/newsweek/
~~~~~~~~~~
mary gavlik
librarian
chuckey-doak middle school
afton, tx
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.
? Monty Python skit
--------------------------------- The fish are biting.
Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing.
Received on Mon 19 Feb 2007 10:18:33 AM CST
