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Parents need to know that 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.
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."
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.
Families can talk about feet. Where do want your feet to take you?
| Author: | Dr. Seuss |
| Illustrator: | Dr. Seuss |
| Book type: | Fiction |
| Genre: | For Beginning Readers |
| Publisher: | Random House |
| Publication date: | October 12, 1968 |
| Number of pages: | 28 |
| Hardcover price: | $4.99 |
| Publisher's recommended age(s): | 2 - 4 |
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