Lexile Measure: 0180 (What's this?)
Series: Dr. Seuss Nursery Collection
Board book: 12 pages
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (August 23, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0375833870
ISBN-13: 978-0375833878
Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 0.4 x 6.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (110 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #4,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #10 in Books > Children's Books > Animals > Fish #21 in Books > Children's Books > Early Learning > Basic Concepts > Counting #24 in Books > Children's Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Dr. Seuss
Age Range: 3 and up
Grade Level: Preschool and up
The colorful counting beads are fun for babies to play with/learn to count/learn colors. However, the adaptation of the book "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" was done very poorly. The rhymes in this book are forced and lacks the natural rhythm of usual limericks/poems. As previous reviewers have said, the text is unusually short. I understand that the goal of the book is to provide a Seussian counting book, but they really could have tried a little harder when putting this together. Here is the the text for those of you who would like to know:"One fishtwo fish/red fishblue fish./Black fishblue fish/old fishnew fish./Three fishfour fish./Here come more fish!/This one has a little star./Say! What a lot of fish there are./1 One fish2 two fish3 three4 four5 five./This one has a car to drive![end]
I didn't quite remember what the original One Fish, Two Fish book was about, but when I read on this board book that it was "inspired by the Dr. Seuss original" I realized that this was someone capitalizing on the Seuss enterprise. Nonetheless, my daughter LOVES LOVES LOVES this book. It's Seussian rhyming makes her giggle when I read it. The other Seuss books don't seem to come in Board books, so it's what I can get for now, so I'm placated. I personally think that it was sloppily put together and some of the words are used repetitively. It's also about two to four pages shorter than most other board books. (Short board books can be agony for parents since it means that your kids will ask you to read it more often. I've read this book maybe 20 times in the span of 5 minutes for her once.) One nice touch, however, are the little plastic fish at the top which I use as a sort of abacus and teach my 18 month old daughter how to count to five by demonstrating with the fish. At the very least, it's a great learning prop.
This is a cute book. Not sure it was worth what I paid for it, but board books are always expensive. Would have cost more to return it than what I paid. This is six "pages" long and is only the first one third of the actual dr Seuss full length book. The cover states "based on and inspired by" as it's the first few pages in its simplest form. It's cute that they added the little moving fish on top. It would make a cute baby shower gift. My two year old enjoys this book for the mommy and baby fish depicted on page four. We are trying to help her learn the colors and counting, so this helps a little. She does like it, but at this age loves lift the flap books more, and we have a better time teaching her the colors through the Dora lift the flap book "Easter egg hunt" with the rainbow at the end. Over all this is a sturdy book as board books are and I appreciate the shiny coated "pages" as she's already stuck a bunch of Dino stickers to the inside page of the book and it was fairly easy to pull them back off without leaving any residue or damaging the book in any way. The fish colors on top go in order of the sequence in the book. Thought that was a nice touch. Good book to have if you are teaching your kids to love dr Seuss books, but over all it's seems too cut off at the end and kind of a disappointment. I've enclosed photos for reference.
The "nursery collection" is too short for adults and kids. This shortened version lacks the flow and fun of the longer, classic story. Even with the cute fish on top, both of our kids lost interest around 2-years old, instead preferring the "big story about One Fish, Two Fish."
This book is about 10 pages long and only a few words on every page, but my 16 month year old baby likes it. He also likes that he can play with the fish on top of the book. It still kinda teaches about colors and numbers one to five. A Preschooler would probably get bored with this, but just right for babies.
Who's idea was this?? This book is about three pages long. It has basically none of the content of the original book, and if you've ever read the original, this one seems bizarrely short and pointless.
I wasn't expecting the fish at the top of the book to be plastic and move like a little bead puzzle! Added bonus! It's very well constructed, & I feel it could take a beating. Which I guarantee my toddler will give it! He loved reading the book, & I feel it will really help with counting and colors! I think it's shorter than the original version, but that's okay. Toddlers don't have large attention spans anyway.
We are underwhelmed. It's a very short version compared to the original, and it ends rather abruptly. We bought several new books for my son at the same time, and after the first read of this one, he has never requested it again. He begs for some of the others daily.
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