Common Sense Note
The peppy rhymes trip off the tongue, and the art is a full-dress rehearsal of Seuss creatures to come. Once they're familiar with the words, kids join right in.
Common Sense Review
Reviewed By: Peter Lewis
Teaching through disarmament is a specialty of Seuss's: First, he disarms his readers with utterly engaging artwork and deep colors, then he slips the lesson across with a dose of humor and a nose for mischief.
The words are simple, but they carry an important idea: opposites. Feet, of course, are a natural for the task, and Seuss exploits them fully and humorously, by color and size and side, by position and type. Feet in action: "Up in the air feet / Over the chair feet." At all hours: "Feet in the morning / Feet at night / Left foot / Left foot / Left foot / Right."
Since the foot is also one of those body parts that get taken for granted, kids also tend to take a good, long look at them for the first time. After marching about to the rhythms of Seuss, one four-year-old discovered the world of foot rubs, urging his mother on like someone out of Vera B. Williams's book, More, More, More Said the Baby.
Dr. Seuss's ABC is another good entry in his Bright and Early series. And Richard McGuire's The Orange Book is one more great one for taking a single idea--in this case, fourteen oranges--and giving it full, playful treatment.
Plot Summary:
Dr. Seuss takes feet on an extended walk through the land of opposites: "Wet foot / Dry foot / Low foot / High foot." Sprouting from a variety of Seussian animals are "Slow feet / Quick feet / Trick feet / Sick feet."
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