Marco is in a pickle. His father has instructed him to keep his eyes peeled for interesting sights on the way to and from school, but all Marco has...
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Oct 09, 2011
Maria
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And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street was the first picture book Dr. Seuss wrote. I like the story because it shows how children’s imagination works. Their imagination is hundreds of times more that what they can express in words. There are two important features in this book and in all of Dr. Seuss’s books drawings and words. The characters and creatures, Dr. Seuss uses in this story are crazy-looking and bizarre. The words are short rhyming sentences. On the other hand, when I read the
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Dec 19, 2009
K.D.
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Nice short read. I saw and read this in Booksale Waltermart Munoz this afternoon. This is one of the children's books included in the 501 Must Read Books so I thought of buying it at a bargain price of P140 (less than $3). However, the story - in poem - is so short so I just decided to read it. Because I will be reviewing it here so I read it twice and I enjoyed it while waiting for my wife and daughter to finish their Christmas shopping.
This is the first of Dr. Seuss's books for chi More...
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May 28, 2009
Shanna
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This is the first of Dr. Seuss's books for children, and it is a good introduction to the imaginative creativity which opened his career as an enormously popular children's writer. In this story a young boy walking home from school, and on seeing a simple horse and cart, embellishes it in his mind by first changing the animal, then the conveyance, then adds passengers, and so on, until the horse and cart are transformed into a veritable parade. This is a quite enjoyable flight of imagination.
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Jul 22, 2008
Snorkle
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Marco sees the Most Interesting things on his way to school.
I thought this was a cute book, it had a simple beginning, leaving you wondering where Dr. Seuss was going, but once you figured it out you only had to turn the page to see what he would cook up next, something that would be sure to make you smile. A crazy little book that is fun to read.
*Taken from my book reviews blog: http://reviewsatmse.blogspot.com/2008/05...
I thought this was a cute book, it had a simple beginning, leaving you wondering where Dr. Seuss was going, but once you figured it out you only had to turn the page to see what he would cook up next, something that would be sure to make you smile. A crazy little book that is fun to read.
*Taken from my book reviews blog: http://reviewsatmse.blogspot.com/2008/05...
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Jan 02, 2010
Jonathan
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And for my first book of the new year… Dr. Seuss! (Everybody needs a little Dr. Seuss once in a while.) I vividly remember standing on the corner of Mulberry Street in Manhattan and thinking “Oh. So this place is real.” (Not that I should have been surprised. After all, the good Doctor could find places with names like Kalamazoo for his rhymes, by which standard “Mulberry St.” is positively benign.) I picked this up with the idea of trying to come up with a Portland version. Klickitat St. in NE
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Feb 09, 2012
Earl
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Dr. Seuss has always been a hit or miss for me. I think his books are too long for reading to kids. But I can't deny the impact he and his books have made. As an aspiring children's book writer, I decided to add another reading challenge to my already long list of reading challenges- to read all 44 (maybe 45?) of his children's books in chronological order this year.
Plus, "And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street" just celebrated its 75th anniversary so it seemed appropriate. More...
Plus, "And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street" just celebrated its 75th anniversary so it seemed appropriate. More...
Apr 13, 2010
Connie
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This is a classic Seuss book - strange, wild, rhyming. Marco is obliged to tell his father what he saw every day. But all he's seen today is a horse and wagon. (Ah, timeshift. If I saw a horse and wagon on the street it really WOULD be worth talking about!) So he changes a detail or two, and in a one-person version of telephone goes dashing up the stairs to tell his dad all about the BIG BAND and PLANES and ELEPHANTS he saw.
Hilarious :)
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Hilarious :)
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Mar 27, 2009
McLean
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Reading this, it's pretty obvious that it's from before Seuss had really polished his style. The usually flawless rhythm is occasionally spotty, and there's not the same level of giddy inventiveness present in so many of his other books. At the same time, this book was written before Seuss had moved into using purely anapestic tetrameter, which makes for some interesting variety of sound. While in some of his later works he would begin to break from the anapestic tetrameter model in very methodi
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Sep 05, 2011
Navaneeta
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This story explains everything about how we transcend the ordinary in our day-to-day living, letting our imagination take us to a world of wish fulfillment. How we transform the dreariness of a Mulberry street of life where "nothing ever happens" into an exciting world full of indian rajahs and chinese chopsticks, a confetti throwing airplane and a trailer pulled by an elephant!
And the most cruel part of the story is also what makes it so real... Marco's telling his father More...
And the most cruel part of the story is also what makes it so real... Marco's telling his father More...
Dec 13, 2008
Jeffrey
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A solid book in the Dr Seuss tradition, if perhaps a product of its time. As others have noted, there are, what would be considered today, some politically incorrect elements. But they are, in my opinion, somewhat minor and kids won't pick up on them as some foundation of future prejudices. At least if you're not reinforcing them via other means.
Anyway, always enjoyable because of typical Seuss absurdity, it also brings home the concepts of storytelling and how fact and fiction are More...
Anyway, always enjoyable because of typical Seuss absurdity, it also brings home the concepts of storytelling and how fact and fiction are More...
Sep 08, 2010
David
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This story, even if not from Seuss' best, says a lot about children. How their imagination works, how they can turn the simplest of things to the grandest, but how still - at the end of the day - they don't want to disappoint their parents and they never actually say what is on their mind. This says a lot about how parents discourage their children from expressing themselves. At least that's what I got from it, among other things. I did like this story a lot; it's short and sweet and flawless.
Apr 17, 2011
Winta
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Macro, the little boy in this story, imagines seeing something that no one else would imagine seeing in Mulberry Street. Like all of us, his imagination takes him to even bigger things. I believe children K-2nd grade would enjoy making similar picture books by adding to something ordinary to make it extraordinary!! The illustrations in this book are great because the new images Macro adds to his great story of what he saw are vividly added to each page.
Sep 13, 2009
Josiah
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This book has sort of a different feel from a lot of Dr. Seuss's material, which makes sense when one considers that And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street was first published way back in 1937. The rhyming scheme isn't quite what I normally expect from Dr. Seuss, but that salient inventive power of his is still certainly there, and I'm glad to see the book still in print today, and continuing to be read and enjoyed by countless readers.
Jan 28, 2012
Ali
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Dr. Seuess's first book! And man, what an imagination we used to have!
I read the little prince before this one, which talked about how after growing we lose imagination, shocking and depressing. I still feel sad that I haven't read this kind of books when I was a child. But, no one is old enough to not read children books. After reading Oh the places you'll go, I made a commitment to read Dr. Seuss's books, this is the start!
I read the little prince before this one, which talked about how after growing we lose imagination, shocking and depressing. I still feel sad that I haven't read this kind of books when I was a child. But, no one is old enough to not read children books. After reading Oh the places you'll go, I made a commitment to read Dr. Seuss's books, this is the start!
Oct 12, 2010
Shannan
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I remember having this book on my shelf when I was a child. I think that re-reading it in a collection of escaping reality books gave me new vision. I thought it was interesting that the boy continued to conjure up great stories but not share them with his father.Yet again Adults squash imagination. I was a big story teller in my time and I was always made to feel bad about it. I grew up thinking that it was lying. Hmm.
Aug 25, 2011
ivana18
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A very short and very sweet children's book. A beautiful tale about one boy's (vivid) imagination. This is my first Dr. Seuss and I'll read more of his creations, I have much respect for children's authors, while it might seem easy to write children's books, I'm sure it's more difficult than it looks. This is simply lovely....I had a smile plastered on my face all the way trough.
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Aug 23, 2009
Suzanne
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To this day I hear the south Georgia drawl of my great grandmother's voice reading to me, "and to THINK that I saw it on Mulberry Street!" I was very lucky, not only did she read this book to me, she also had a Mulberry tree in the back yard. She would push me up into the branches so I could eat them, and pick some for her to make jam. I cannot separate these experiences in my mind.
Dec 05, 2010
Lauren
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How would the children use their imaginations to create everything they would see while waiting on their neighborhood street?
Marco sees all sorts of things on Mulberry Street. He sees a horse and wagon that turns into a zebra and a chariot. Then a reindeer and sleigh. His imagination turns into a giant parade with bands and large animals and confetti and great people.
Marco sees all sorts of things on Mulberry Street. He sees a horse and wagon that turns into a zebra and a chariot. Then a reindeer and sleigh. His imagination turns into a giant parade with bands and large animals and confetti and great people.
Feb 23, 2011
Bridgette
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A simple story about the imagination of a little boy and his desire to share his story. I like the subtle message to parents....his father has told him not to fabricate stories and make them grander than they truly are. This does not discourage the boy from creating the story just sharing the story with the dad.
Aug 27, 2009
Heather
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I read this book to my son when he started telling his tall tales...and we decided that when he was like the little boy in this story and he wanted to tell mama a pretend story that we would write it down. I think this book has helped a lot with that...so then I thought hey what a great thing to do in my class!
Nov 19, 2011
Kristen
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Dr. Seuss has always encouraged children to use their imaginations with his stories. That is completely what this one, and many others by him, are about. Taking something as simple as a horse and cart and turning it into a fantastic sight to be seen while walking home from school. What is greater than that?
Oct 05, 2009
Hilary
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Copyright 1937. By a (then) unknown author. Original manuscript rejected by more than two dozen publishers (hence, Dr. Seuss' loyalty to Random House). Because this story relies on the scope of a child's imagination -- it is more accessible, more grounded, than some of his later works.
Jul 07, 2008
Teresa
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This is my all time favorite. I actually still have a hardcover of this book. I read these stories so often to my kids that I can still recite pages of different stories. I'm quite good with "One Fish, Two Fish," and "Green Eggs and Ham." One of my favorite pictures is from "Hop on Pop," when Mr. Black and Mr. Brown are on the see-saw.
Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" on a dare. His publisher challenged him that he couldn't write a book More...
Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" on a dare. His publisher challenged him that he couldn't write a book More...
Jul 22, 2009
Kirsten
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The first book written by Seuss for children - and it was rejected MULTIPLE times before finally being accepted by a publisher. Why was it rejected? It was "too fantastical." It was ground-breaking in the world of children's literature. Thank goodness Seuss was persistent!
Feb 25, 2009
Jack Kirby and the X-man
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In his first children's book Dr Seuss shows us why he became one of the most successful children's authors of all time. It is interesting to note that it wasn't until 20 years after this book was published that The Cat in the Hat made him a household name.
Dec 05, 2011
Michael
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Is this Dr. Seuss's first book? It is great seeing his early style; the rhyming and nonsense words are not at the levels he would eventually take them too. A refreshing reading for anyone who is used to the 'On Beyond Zebra' side of Seuss.
Jan 21, 2011
Kathryn
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My boys and I are in the middle of a Dr. Seuss marathon. This book is not one of my favorites, as I feel the flow was not as smooth as most of his other books, but it is still a classic and an entertaining read for young readers.
Jul 05, 2011
Meg
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One of my favorite Dr. Seuss books. I used to read this one over and over again. I love the idea of the little boy's explosive imagination taking over his otherwise normal walk home. I was very much that child.
Jul 25, 2011
Gail
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My #1 Dr. Seuss book. This is a book about people watching and I think of it often as I create stories of the people I am watching... The good Dr. and I would have had a great time people watching together.
