By Dr. Seuss
The 50'th anniversary edition, so it's gold. It's also the party edition, whatever that means.
I was seriously disappointed in this book. It's one of the most famous Dr. Seuss books, but I'd never read it and always wondered what I was missing out on.
4 pages about fish and then a lot of rambling.
Now, the rambling can be okay if it's justified. And it's justified in this book because it's teaching you to read with phonics. But the ideas are pretty boring and there's no effort whatsoever to link the ideas together. And it's SO long. "Hop on Pop" is aimless and meandering, and to be fair, some of it probably could have been cut, but at least each 'story' lasts more than two pages and the whole thing overall is fairly short. My daughter likes "Hop on Pop".
She didn't even ask to read "One Fish Two Fish" a second time and promptly forgot it was in the house. I sent it back to the library after a single read-through.
Plus it's filled with nothing but Seuss' imaginary characters which are annoying after a while. Some people argue that they all look the same, and I tend to agree.
There are so many early readers out there that are so much better than this.
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