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The possibilities are endless in Dr. Seuss’s classic Beginner Book! Young readers will delight in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! which celebrates the imagination and encourages young readers to think . . . about thinking! “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the Thinks you can think up if only you try.” Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning.
Lexile Measure: 240L (What's this?)
Hardcover: 48 pages
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers; Cover Worn edition (August 12, 1975)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0394831292
ISBN-13: 978-0394831299
Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 0.3 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (250 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #3,958 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #12 in Books > Children's Books > Early Learning > Basic Concepts > Words #23 in Books > Children's Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Dr. Seuss #41 in Books > Children's Books > Early Learning > Beginner Readers
Age Range: 3 - 7 years
Grade Level: Preschool - 2
This book was one of the five that I most enjoyed reading to our four children when they were young. Upon rereading the book, I bgan to realize why I enjoyed it so much . . . as well as why they did.Children begin with quite vivid imaginations, and education (and the socializing process) quickly discourage their imaginations in favor of coloring between the lines (following the conformist rules). This wonderful book by Dr. Seuss extolls the creative process and liberates the child (and the parent) to use their imaginations. "THINK! You can think any THINK that you wish . . . Think of a race on a horse on a ball with a fish!" It's like getting a license to use your natural creativity.The book encourages creativity in a variety of effective ways. As the above quote shows, juxtaposition (combined with wonderfully funny illustrations) can allow the child to see that words can be jumbled together in ways to create fantastic images. The book begins and ends with this method.Through the book, the illustrations are drawn to highlight the unusual. Many different colors are combined, in odd ways, and in odd shapes.Then, after the imagination is revved up a bit, Dr. Seuss begins to do mental pirouettes by introducing such creatures as GUFFS (fuzzy orange creatures with tails that have large furry balls along them them), SNUVS (yellow creatures wearing color mismatched gloves -- you can see how the name sometimes helps with the rhyming), BLOOGS (green, yellow, and blue creatures blowing by in the white sky above the black water), and ZONGS (with a tail that is 15 times as long as the body which winds among blue and pink mushrooms).Of course, the visions are sometimes more literal: Kitty O'Sullivan Krauss diving into a balloon pool over her house.I thought that the RINK-RINKER-FINK and the VIPPER of VIPP were especially wonderful inventions. They juxtapose many different concepts in a particularly mind-liberating way.If any book can overcome you tradition, misconception, and disbelief stalls, this one is it. By sharing it with your children while they are young, you can keep them from ever developing the stalls in the first place.
This delightfully illustrated, simply readable, and wonderfully silly volume is one of my favorite of Seuss. It uses simple rhymes and easy words perfect either for parents to read aloud, or for beginning readers to read by themselves.Unlike Green Eggs and Ham and many of his other stories, this book follows no storyline, but simply takes children (and their parents) on a delightful journey of the imagination.
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! Is a charming book by the immortal Dr. Seuss who wrote many fine children's books in his time. Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! is no exception. This book encourages children to imagine and eventually explore the world without fear.The book has excellent illustrations that amuse children--and adults; and the rhyming text always impresses me.The book starts by encouraging children to use their imaginations to think up what other animals and/or places in the world may be like. This alone can stimulate a lot of conversation between you and your child about other places in the real world and what life is like there. This will go a long way toward teaching younger children about the world out there that one day they will be exploring for real. In addition, the book also has Dr. Seuss using his own imagination to give examples to children as to how to use their imaginations; we get words about foreign things and sounds like "guff" and "schlopp." This does a marvelous job of teaching children to always be optimistic.The book has even more value. Younger children will profit from learning words critical to their growing vocabularies including yellow, blue, red, pink, black, white, night, day, left and right--and more! Excellent.The book cover withstands some throwing around just in case your child accidentally mistreats it; and, as always, the paper quality of these books by Dr. Seuss is very good.I highly recommend this fine children's book. It teaches much to both very young children and older children as well. Get this and enjoy it with your growing child!
Oh, the Things........ several titles and all precious and always welcome no matter the age. Buy for kids now, grandkids, and most of all, remember, you will some day grow up to read fairy tales again.
This is a great book to get for your kids or grandkids. The two I recently bought were to give to my grandkids when they graduate from high school. I am having all their teachers from preschool thru 12th grade sign and comment in the book, so the grandkids can read it when they graduate. This book is perfect for that!
Bought the book anticipating a visit from our grandchildren, ages 5 & 8. Evidently this is one Dr. Seuss book that they had not read. Whew. And they enjoyed it, as they have all the Dr. Seuss books. It did not disappoint.
My mother really likes the big orange book of beginner books. You also have a blue, purple and a green book of beginners. We think these books should be numbered so people can know which book should be read first. We believe that the orange should be read 1st. Not the blue book. But my mother really likes these books. She get really excited when she reads. She can't believe she can read english.
OH, THE THINKS YOU CAN THINK! is a wonderful book for pre-schoolers and for the adults reading to them. The colors, illustrations and colorful wordplays by Dr. Seuss are so stimulating and encouraging to the child's natural creativity. You can do anythink you can think, and no thinks are impossible!
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