Showing posts with label Theo LeSieg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theo LeSieg. Show all posts

Saturday, November 10, 2012

A Seuss-tastic Saturday

 
 
 
 
Posted by PicasaFirst up is "Please Try to Remember the First of Octember".  I read this one aloud to the kids at my daughter's Dr. Seuss birthday party since it was in October/"Octember" - they seemed to like it.  Sometimes this book is published under the name Dr. Seuss, and sometimes under his pseudonym, Theo LeSieg.  The story imagines all the wonderful things that would happen and all the wonderful things that you would get on this miraculous day - if such a day existed.

I really like Gerald McBoing Boing- it first appeared on a children's record and then became a book and a cartoon.  Gerald can only speak in sound effects and is a social outcast until NBC Radio discovers him.  Gerald McBoing Boing was a tv series back in 1956-57 as well as in 2005-07.  Check out the old and new clips that I've included here.

I don't know if The Sleep Book actually made my kids sleepy, but it was fun to read.  Every couple of pages there is a new strange and silly creature to read about. Do you have a go-to book that you read to your kids often at night?  I love Dr. Seuss's rhymes and nonsense words that trip off the tongue.  Did you know that 'And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street' was rejected by many publishers before it was finally published in 1937?  It is about a boy who imagines a wild and creative story to tell his father about his walk home.

Monday, July 9, 2012

A Trilogy of Theo LeSieg- In a People House, I Wish I Had Duck Feet, and Come Over to My House

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Posted by PicasaFor those of you who don't know, Theo LeSieg is actually Dr. Seuss.  His real name is Theodore Geisel, and LeSieg is Geisel spelled backwards.  These are all such cute books, and I especially like the illustrations on Come Over to My House.  My daughter actually does not really like the book I Wish I Had Duck Feet.  She gets sad as she reads about  some of the things that happen to the main character as he experiences having duck feet, moose horns, an elephant nose, a sprinkler on his head, etc.  Near the end of the book he is imagining if he had all of those things at once - and how he would probably be locked up in a zoo...  my daughter gets very concerned as she sees the upset look on his face in the illustration... then the character decides as the end that he would rather just be himself.  

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