I enjoyed my mother reading the book to me, I enjoyed reading the book to my daughters when they were little, and I still love to read it to my kindergarten class every year. This is a great book to read just for fun, and it is also an excellent book to read when teaching rhyming words. The black, white, red, and blue illustrations are entertaining. My favorite illustration is the one where the cat is balancing everything (even the fish), while standing on a ball! I do always have a discussion with my class that the cat's antics are not appropriate behavior!
When the movie version came out in 2003, my oldest daughter was 8 and my youngest daughter was 5. Of course, because my husband and I liked the book so much, we definitely wanted to take our daughters to see the movie. Well, this is one of the only movies that I have ever been to that I seriously considered walking out before it was over! I'm not sure to this day why we stayed until the end. How sad that a fun, light, Dr. Seuss classic was reduced to vulgarity, bodily functions, sexual references, and jokes that fell flat.
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