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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
Coming from a long line of story tellers and truth benders, this book had so much appeal to me as a child and as an adult. It is not the most popular Dr. Seuss book, but I love how this story grows and grows all from a little cart.
2015 Reading Challenge: A popular author's first book.
I actually never heard of this until I googled Dr Suess' first book. It's pretty cute. I liked the narrative style. I definitely read it as an adult though because I diagnosed the main character as a compulsive liar who just wants to please his overbearing father.
I actually never heard of this until I googled Dr Suess' first book. It's pretty cute. I liked the narrative style. I definitely read it as an adult though because I diagnosed the main character as a compulsive liar who just wants to please his overbearing father.
The more that I read this the less that I can overlook the vague racist and sexist undertones. I contextualize in the time it was written for myself and I explain why it's problematic to our 19 month old. That helps, but this may go the way of Skippy John Jones... In the never never pile.
This book taught me that Chinese men eat with sticks and Rajahs have rubies.
Actually, no, wait, that's stereotyping, and we can't have that.
This book taught me that there exists a Chinese man who eats with sticks, and also there exists a Rajah with rubies (perched high on a throne, incidentally).
Actually, no, wait, that's stereotyping, and we can't have that.
This book taught me that there exists a Chinese man who eats with sticks, and also there exists a Rajah with rubies (perched high on a throne, incidentally).
Old Children's Book. Liked it as a kid, but haven't read it in years.
Fun concept and exciting storytelling. A boy enjoys his incredible imagination, while also learning that it's not appropriate to share his "outlandish tales" as if they were true events. The father-son dynamic is making me wonder if this book was perhaps somewhat autobiographical: I can totally see young Theodore Geissel getting in trouble with his parents for fabulating -- and deciding to keep his fictions to himself for the moment. I think the story would have been a tad better had the father encouraged his son to use his creativity in "approved ways," but I realize that the late 1930s weren't exactly the time for such, ahem, silly notions. I'm sure kids of all time periods got the implied message just fine!
Now for the sad part: I can appreciate the book as a product of its time, but I would feel embarrassed reading this to a child. It is outdated, and not in a charming way. It is so outdated, in fact, that I would have thought this was written in the 19th century rather than shortly before WWII. We have misogyny:
Now for the sad part: I can appreciate the book as a product of its time, but I would feel embarrassed reading this to a child. It is outdated, and not in a charming way. It is so outdated, in fact, that I would have thought this was written in the 19th century rather than shortly before WWII. We have misogyny:
Hmmmm... a reindeer and sleigh...We have exoticism in the "Rajah, with rubies" riding his elephant. And we have outright racism:
Say -- anyone could think of that,
Jack or Fred or Joe or Nat --
Say, even Jane could think of that.
A Chinese manTimes have changed, and this book just doesn't cut it anymore. Dr. Seuss wrote some timeless gems, but this isn't one of them. I recommend [b:Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories|420404|Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories|Dr. Seuss|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347434226l/420404._SX50_.jpg|40370] or [b:Oh Say Can You Say?|7783|Oh Say Can You Say?|Dr. Seuss|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1538484823l/7783._SX50_.jpg|3218330] instead.
Who eats with sticks
Imagination is the best thing ever. It has no boundaries !!! Short but meaningful !
This was interesting... the story, like most of his, is about being imaginative. Overall, a fun story about a boy's imagination (although kind of a downer that his dad discourages it). The problematic part was a picture of a stereotypical Chinese man "who eats with sticks." But what I found the most interesting was that this was actually an updated version. Originally published in 1937, this "Chinese man" was called something a little more offensive, his skin was yellow, and he had a pigtail. So I think it's fascinating that people are upset that others would find fault with this stereotypical depiction, when the creator himself recognized the problematic issue of the illustration and changed it. "That's the way things were 50 years ago," Dr. Seuss said. Not in defense, but explaining why he felt it was important to change it now (well, in 1978).
I recently found out that they found an original Dr. Seuss book that hasn't been published and for some reason I got really excited learning that there is a new book that you can add to your or your children's book collection. I was introduced to Dr. Seuss I believe when I was in Kindergarten and I loved the stories and the funny rhymes that Dr. Seuss used to creative these imaginative stories. Sadly by the time I was in 2nd grade, Dr. Seuss became nonexistent in my life and was discouraged to read for school because it was meant for younger kids.
I can count in one hand how many Dr. Seuss books I've read and I believe that is pathetic that I haven't read more books especially for a very inventive and creative author of children books. I've seen the television specials, the movie adaptations, and even the few tv shows and I believe now that they are releasing a new book that I should now take the time and read every single Dr. Seuss book known to man and support my local library.
I decided to read his books in chronological order as each shipment of books arrives to the library and I am glad that I received the first children book he had written. It was short and sweet and yet creative in illustrating how everything is exaggerated in the eyes of a child. Children with their imagination and innocence goes wild when it comes to being creative and I love how Dr. Seuss is able to capture this in this book.
And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street deals with a boy named Marco who walks to and from school on his own, and every day his father asks him what did he witness along the journey. He always like to exaggerate and his father gets mad and tells him that he needs to stop and tell the truth. Then one day he sees a wagon and horse cruising by Mulberry Street and his imagination goes wild. His daydreaming fantasies start as small but as the story goes along it gets bigger and bigger until theres no room to go any further. Its crazy to believe that this could actually happen in real life and sure enough when Marco arrives home to tell his dad about what he witness on Mulberry Street, he decides to tell the truth which simply he saw a horse and on wagon.
For his first book I believe it is brilliant and new favorite of mine and for those who are new to Dr. Seuss, I believe it gives you a tiny sneak peak towards what is to come in this fantastic fantasy world of Dr. Seuss.
P.S. If you want to read more adventures with Marco then you should check out McElligot's Pool
I can count in one hand how many Dr. Seuss books I've read and I believe that is pathetic that I haven't read more books especially for a very inventive and creative author of children books. I've seen the television specials, the movie adaptations, and even the few tv shows and I believe now that they are releasing a new book that I should now take the time and read every single Dr. Seuss book known to man and support my local library.
I decided to read his books in chronological order as each shipment of books arrives to the library and I am glad that I received the first children book he had written. It was short and sweet and yet creative in illustrating how everything is exaggerated in the eyes of a child. Children with their imagination and innocence goes wild when it comes to being creative and I love how Dr. Seuss is able to capture this in this book.
And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street deals with a boy named Marco who walks to and from school on his own, and every day his father asks him what did he witness along the journey. He always like to exaggerate and his father gets mad and tells him that he needs to stop and tell the truth. Then one day he sees a wagon and horse cruising by Mulberry Street and his imagination goes wild. His daydreaming fantasies start as small but as the story goes along it gets bigger and bigger until theres no room to go any further. Its crazy to believe that this could actually happen in real life and sure enough when Marco arrives home to tell his dad about what he witness on Mulberry Street, he decides to tell the truth which simply he saw a horse and on wagon.
For his first book I believe it is brilliant and new favorite of mine and for those who are new to Dr. Seuss, I believe it gives you a tiny sneak peak towards what is to come in this fantastic fantasy world of Dr. Seuss.
P.S. If you want to read more adventures with Marco then you should check out McElligot's Pool