The Cat in The Hat Beginner Book Dictionary - Hardcover

Eastman P D

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0001950509 ISBN 13: 9780001950504

Publisher: Collins & Harvill, 1965

Synopsis

Beginner book dictionary

About this title

Review:

A decades-old dictionary that you can still use today (and know that children will love it) is an amazing testament to the genius of the Seuss stable. The roughly 12-per-page colored drawings are dated, of course--the humans far more than the animals, funnily enough--but they've aged in a way that adds to their charm rather than detracting from it. (Phonograph may take some explaining; ditto typewriter, which we recently heard described as "like a computer, only with paper instead of a screen.") The 1,350 words are well balanced between the obvious stuff--common nouns and verbs--and more abstract language, from about to yet. Each word is accompanied by a drawing and an illustrative sentence. Along the way, naturally, we meet a wacky menagerie of humans and animals: "Aaron the alligator making more machines," "Aunt Ada standing on her head," etc. (Ages 4 to 8) --Richard Farr

From the Inside Flap:

Illus. in full color. "The picture carries the meaning in this dictionary of over a thousand elementary words from 'Aaron' the alligator to a nest full of 'zyxuzpf' birds. The book gets a large 'A' for its commonsense-through-nonsense approach to reading." "The New York Times.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins & Harvill
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0001950509
• ISBN 13: 9780001950504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136