Hop on Pop (Beginner Book & Cassette Library/1-Audio Cassette)

by Dr. Seuss

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3618 ratings, 3.96 average rating, 141 reviews (more data...)

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published

October 12th 1987 (first published 1963) by Random House Books for Young Readers

binding

Paperback, 64 pages

isbn

0394892224 (isbn13: 9780394892221)

description

First published in 1963, Hop on Pop remains a perennial favorite when it comes to teaching kids to read. Here, as in most of his extensive body of wor...more

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Mike rated it:

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07/25/07

Read in March, 2007

It just didn't do it for me--no character development, no irony, to existential angst, it was almost like a children's book.

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GC rated it:

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06/24/07

recommends it for: All

Why I hate theis wonderful book.

“HOP ON POP”
by Gerard C. Smith

Come "Hop on Pop," my Lisa said
And hop of course is what she did
Her brother joined in with a jump
On Poppa’s tum he went crash-bump
Lisa hopped and hopped some more
She knocked poor Poppa to the floor
Both kids did bounce, each up and down
Poor Pop was trounced and he did frown
Now he hates that bastard T. Geisel
And hopes the rotte

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Leftbanker rated it:

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10/04/07

Call me old fashioned but I think that there is far too much pop hopping going on in America these days. It's disgusting and then they turn around and turn it into a children's book. What's next? Leaving a cat alone with two unsupervised children? An elephant wedging an egg in his butt? A fox wearing human undergarments? Oobleck? That just has to be filthy. Where does it end?

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Rfrancik rated it:

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11/13/08

bookshelves: 1-e, 4-early-readers

Full of three letter words in a unique and visually practical graphical format Hop on Pop takes the reader through several humerous story about creatures whose actions are characterized by simple phonetically repetitious words.

Hop on Pop was different from any of the other phonics readers I looked at. To begin with the story makes sense. We immediately like the characters whose expressions show an astounding range of emotion. Best of all Suess uses vocabulary an emerging reader c...more

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Robbie rated it:

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10/20/07

bookshelves: books-ive-read-to-my-kids, read-more-than-once

My daughter and I had a great time with this book when she was in the very first stages of learning to read. This is probably one of the easiest of of the Dr. Seuss books. We laughed the most when we decided to say all of the words using the wrong vowel sounds e.g. "Hope on Pope" :)

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David rated it:

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10/25/07

Read in January, 1985

recommends it for: children

this is the first book I ever read. I remember specifically stopping at the last page, which contains four lines *in a row* and then I remember distinctly getting through those lines to achieve my crowning glory as a new reader: one book finished.
*stamp*

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Karla rated it:

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07/31/08

Read in July, 2008

Okay I just had to add this one, as a joke, because it's this book, and ones similar that I spend most of my time reading these days, but hey Alex loves it, and I love that he loves to hear stories, so I can't complain.

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Patricia rated it:

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09/17/07

Read in September, 2007

recommends it for: 2 year olds and their parents

I am currently reading this book. And I'll be reading it again in 5 minutes. And 10 minutes after that. It is my daughter's favorite book. A special thanks to Dr. Seuss for making this book tolerable to read over and over.

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Heather rated it:

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06/04/08

bookshelves: beginning-readers, for-the-little-ones, school-books-kid-books

Our all time favorite learn-to-read book. Deals with word families so kids start to see how it all works. And makes it easier to read since they know the ending sounds.

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Megan rated it:

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03/08/07

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Read in January, 1987

The first book I ever read. The perfect first book to read. My whole life has been perfect, all because of this book.

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Dan rated it:

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10/09/07

bookshelves: childrens-books-i-have

SONG
LONG
A long, long song.

Good-by, Thing.
You sing too long.

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Margaret rated it:

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10/29/07

bookshelves: childrens-books

This was one of the first books I ever learned to read.

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Katie rated it:

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08/09/07

bookshelves: childrens

An absolute nessecity on any toddler's bookshelf. :-)

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Carrie rated it:

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04/16/08

Read in January, 1986

This is the first book I ever read by myself.

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Marlon rated it:

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09/17/07

The first book i ever read! good times!

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Meredith rated it:

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08/01/07

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i learned how to read because of this book

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erik rated it:

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10/07/08

bookshelves: art

Read in January, 1963

recommended to erik by: Lajla and Christian Stousland
recommends it for: kids and their friends

One evening as my parent's were settling down for Jack Paar's Tonight Show, I was summoned out of bed to the living room of our Levitowner house in the Meadowdale development near Carpentersville. Their faces were grave. "Your mother has something important to tell you," Dad said. I was seven, still sleeping in a blue one-piece with booties, pajamas kept inside a zippered tiger on the bed during the day. They had been warned by Dr. Spock that this was a crucial event, telling the o...more One evening as my parent's were settling down for Jack Paar's Tonight Show, I was summoned out of bed to the living room of our Levitowner house in the Meadowdale development near Carpentersville. Their faces were grave. "Your mother has something important to tell you," Dad said. I was seven, still sleeping in a blue one-piece with booties, pajamas kept inside a zippered tiger on the bed during the day. They had been warned by Dr. Spock that this was a crucial event, telling the only child that a competitor was on the way.

Upon hearing the news, I ran into my room to return with tiger's companion, my teddy bear, what once had been Mother's teddy across the sea in Oslo, literally my oldest possession. "Here," I said, with gravity approaching theirs, "this is for the baby."

When the baby came it was a boy. I had had a part in naming it. The initial idea had been to name it after Father's father if it was a boy, to name it "Fin Graff". Thinking this wasn't fair, and, in keeping with Norwegian tradition, having only two names myself, I suggested naming it after both grandfathers, "Fin Einar Graff". And so it was to be.

The Fin Einar was premature and Mother was Rh negative, so it was some time before we were able to pick up the thing. Another "crucial event", the parents were worried about what I'd think of the wizened, red little thing with the peanut head covered with scraggly wisps of damp hair. I said it, he was "beautiful" and rode home with him in the back of Dad's Hilman Husky station wagon--in awe.

Now I was eight and, as Kurt Vonnegut would say, "alone no more". It was great fun having a little brother, almost as good as having Jimmy Olsen, my mongrel dog. As soon as he could focus on pictures, I started reading to him like the parents did.

The paternal grandmother, Lajla, and her second husband, Christian (the first, Einar Sr., having died when I was five), were very generous with the books. While Fin was growing up, he had a subscription to some childrens' book operation so we got a new picture book delivered to the house regularly. Many of them were Dr. Seuss. Hell, all of them might have been his books. Any others weren't memorable. In any case, I liked the Seuss stuff not only because some of them were familiar from my own childhood, but also because they're actually interesting--wierdly creative in a way both kids and grownups can appreciate.

Now Fin is, like myself, very, very old. Unlike myself, he has spawned. This one I also had a part in naming. So convinced were he and Miki that they would have a boy, they had already named it "Liam". Raising the remote possibility of a female, I suggested, cleverly, the name of an old girlfriend from Norway, "Anne-Kristine", a name they appreciated because "Anne-Lise" is Mother's name and because, hey, it is a great name! So, another peanut-head entered the world, her name Americanized to "Anna-Kristina" in deference to the expected spelling proclivities of school teachers and bureaucrats, and those old Dr. Seuss books got a second, even, in some cases, a third run.

They are still not boring....less

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Shane rated it:

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01/03/09

This book was decent. I mean,it has it moments, but you have to admit that it is somewhat over-rated when you compare it to this alleged "Dr.'s" other works. For instance, are we supposed to believe that this doctor actually wrote books that do not rise about a first-grade reading level? Come on.

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Connie rated it:

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08/03/08

Let's note first that this book isn't actually intended as a readaloud book, nor is it intended for children much younger than the age of six.

The format of the book reflects this. It's a bit long for toddlers (who aren't known for having great attention spans), and the different spreads are disconnected - when a kid is at the age where they struggle to read "All, Ball, We All Play Ball", the last thing they need to worry about is what they read two pages before!

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Ryan rated it:

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12/26/08

Read in December, 2008

One of the first books that we purchased for our son and one of the first ones that we have begun to ingrain in our memory. Hopefully he will have memories of us reading this to him throughout his childhood. You must not hop on pop!

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