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Aug 26, 2007
Rachel
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
alliteration junkies
Shelves:
sockrockers
sometimes i feel like there's a zamp in the lamp
and im also quite certain there's a jertain in the curtain
whoa
and im also quite certain there's a jertain in the curtain
whoa
I think this one was my fave for awhile. The made up words were fun.
Genre: Controlled Vocabulary Picture Book
Summary: This book uses rhyming to present controlled vocabulary in a fun and entertaining way. The story presents different animals that live throughout the home of a character and whether or not these creatures are pleasant or not.
Critique:
a.) The familiar Dr. Seuss rhyming is as always a valuable tool in providing a masterful way to present vocabulary to young and new readers. The illustrations are fun, colorful, and create accurate depictions of the...more
Summary: This book uses rhyming to present controlled vocabulary in a fun and entertaining way. The story presents different animals that live throughout the home of a character and whether or not these creatures are pleasant or not.
Critique:
a.) The familiar Dr. Seuss rhyming is as always a valuable tool in providing a masterful way to present vocabulary to young and new readers. The illustrations are fun, colorful, and create accurate depictions of the...more
The rhyming rhythm and silly and humorous concepts are what makes There’s a Wocket in my Pocket such a special picture book. The story depicts a young boy who visits different rooms in his house only to find crazy-looking creatures, some of which he likes and others that he doesn’t, hiding in cupboards, behind curtains, and up the chimney. The boy hopes to remain with the friendly creatures and never leave the house.
The concept I like most about the book is the creative rhyming and timing of eac...more
The concept I like most about the book is the creative rhyming and timing of eac...more
There is no introduction needed for Dr. Seuss books. There’s a Wocket in my Pocket is a picture book relating to the controlled vocabulary genre. A young boy visits different rooms in his house to find crazy-looking creatures, some of which he could do without and others of which he likes, hiding under rugs, inside cabinets and up the entire set of stairs. The boy happily invites the “friendly” creatures to stay in his house and hopes to never have them leave.
a.) The greatest aspect of this sto...more
a.) The greatest aspect of this sto...more
From some other reviews I've gathered that this is not the full original version of "There's a Wocket in My Pocket," but I don't find this to be a major issue for me. I've never read the original, and only wanted to get a classic children's literature read for my infant son. Dr. Seuss's books are invariably playful, whimsical and charming, and this one is no exception. They can be a lot of fun to read. The little ones who are just learning to speak a playful rhyming sentences can be really attra...more
Genre: Fantasy
Review: Amazon.com Review
There's a Wocket in my Pocket is yet another prime catch in the vast sea of delectable Dr. Seuss books. It's difficult to find a Dr. Seuss book one wouldn't recommend highly, and this is no exception. Seuss's simple rhymes are consistently as amusing as they are useful; his books are bastions of creative nonsense that simultaneously encourage the joy of wordplay.
This edition of the 1974 treasure features vibrant full-color illustrations, with the added bonu...more
Review: Amazon.com Review
There's a Wocket in my Pocket is yet another prime catch in the vast sea of delectable Dr. Seuss books. It's difficult to find a Dr. Seuss book one wouldn't recommend highly, and this is no exception. Seuss's simple rhymes are consistently as amusing as they are useful; his books are bastions of creative nonsense that simultaneously encourage the joy of wordplay.
This edition of the 1974 treasure features vibrant full-color illustrations, with the added bonu...more
Another favorite Dr. Suess book. This was my sister Mandy's favorite. We read this book so much we split the binding on it. It was a classic go to. We loved books as kids that has a ryhming rhythm and silliness to it. We would recite these to each other. I could not recite this whole book right now, but certainly large portions of it due to the fact that we would sing these silly rhymes to each other. There was a lot of reading that went on in our house. We read this our loud to each other about...more
I know it's supposed to just be a fun read for kids to learn about rhyming. But all of these fantastical names for fantastical creatures are not the words I want my children learning when they're first developing their language skills. I'd rather they learn real rhymes - Fox in Socks at least has that going for it!
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Apr 06, 2013
Florence Baumgardner
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
All children!
Shelves:
childrens-s-literature
There's a Wocket in my Pocket by Dr. Seuss's Book of Ridiculous Rhymes
ISBN 13: 9780679882831
There's a Wocket in my Pocket by Dr. Seuss's Book of Ridiculous Rhymes is a board picture book for N-Nusrery ages 2-4. Who would of known you have a house full of creatures whose name rhymes with many of the things found in your house. The illustrator does a excellent job in creating creatures all over the house with fun colors. One of the first books children at young ages can pick up the rhyme of vocab...more
ISBN 13: 9780679882831
There's a Wocket in my Pocket by Dr. Seuss's Book of Ridiculous Rhymes is a board picture book for N-Nusrery ages 2-4. Who would of known you have a house full of creatures whose name rhymes with many of the things found in your house. The illustrator does a excellent job in creating creatures all over the house with fun colors. One of the first books children at young ages can pick up the rhyme of vocab...more
In honor of Dr. Seuss week, I have decided (at the suggestion of my elementary school teacher mom) to read a couple of Dr. Seuss books that I don't rememeber reading as a child. I have to admit - I started smiling just opening the book...there's something so fun about the overt silliness of it all. This book is about made-up creatures in ordinary places in a boys house, that rhyme with the places they hangout. For example, a bofa on the sofa. It's such a simple concept for a book, but I love it...more
I love Dr. Seuss' literature for children. I think they are a great way to get students to manipulate words. There's a Wocket in my Pocket is a book by Dr. Seuss that displays many nonsense words that rhyme with many words the reader are probably familiar with. It talks about places in the house that these creatures are hiding. Dr. Seuss has a fantastic way to create abstract thinking with kids. I love Read Around America Day in elementary because of the fun reading activities we got to do that...more
This classic Dr. Seuss book tells a story about a boy who finds all these different types of creatures in his house. This picture book is great for phonemic awareness and vocabulary as Dr. Seuss creates various new words that rhyme with one another. On some pages he rhymes three words together by changing the letters of each to produce a similar sound. For instance, on one of the pages it reads, “[s]ometimes I feel quite certain there’s a jertain in the curtain.” On each page the boy suspects a...more
Feb 10, 2013
Katy Snyder
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
picture-books,
fantasy
This book explored rhyming with all sorts of made up words and creatures. I really liked that the boy in the story had such diverse feelings about all of the creatures he interacted with on a daily basis, it teaches children the very basic idea that they do not have to either like or hate someone but they can be somewhere in between. The part that stuck out to me the most was about the Bofa on the sofa and how the boy wished he wasn't there but he did not classify the Bofa as someone he was real...more
My 1yr old son loves the photos and looks at the book often. We have a cardboard copy. He isn't a fan of the story, but loves it when we make up a story to the photos. I enjoy the rhyming myself. The colorful photos keep him amused. He loves having books read to him.
Personally, there are days that I can't get the words to come out right I get so tongue tied with the stellar and the beller and the dweller and the heller and the geller in the cellar that I just start making random words up! Hahaha...more
Personally, there are days that I can't get the words to come out right I get so tongue tied with the stellar and the beller and the dweller and the heller and the geller in the cellar that I just start making random words up! Hahaha...more
Apr 03, 2007
Dave
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
kids of all ages
Well my nephew loves it, so good enough for me! Like other Dr Seuss books, wonderful to read aloud.
This book is about all of the different make believe animals that this kid has in his house. This shows that kids should have an imagination because it will better them throughout their lives to become more creative. Instead of this kid listening to what people are saying about all of these hidden animals in his house not being there, he choses to embarrass them. This book also shows that you should do what makes you happy and not listen to what other people think you should do, just be yourself...more
As is typical for Dr. Seuss, this book combines simple rhymes with nonsense.
There is great value for young readers in reading nonsense words. It teaches them to quickly and automatically sound out words they have never seen before. And there's not much plot. This, too, is an advantage - when you're struggling to read you're likely to lose track of what you've read by the end of the sentence. If you have to think back three pages for everything to make sense, well, that's frustrating!
Some of the...more
There is great value for young readers in reading nonsense words. It teaches them to quickly and automatically sound out words they have never seen before. And there's not much plot. This, too, is an advantage - when you're struggling to read you're likely to lose track of what you've read by the end of the sentence. If you have to think back three pages for everything to make sense, well, that's frustrating!
Some of the...more
i have read it and also read it many times to my sister -- she loves this book
Chloe's current fave. Wocket pocket? wocket pocket?
There’s a Wocket in my Pocket features a boy talking about all the different kinds of strange creatures that live in his house. This book is a silly rhyming book for children that is very beneficial for phonics. Some of the creatures have very unique names such as a nooth grush on his tooth brush or the yeps on the steps. Overall it is a great book for children but it may be difficult because the words are jumbled and the letters are swapped. This could be very confusing for young children when...more
Students love this book because of all the silly, made up words that Dr. Seuss has written! When reading this book outloud, you are guaranteed to make your children laugh out loud! This book is wonderful for teaching rhyming or even letter sounds, because each rhyming words has so many different rhymes associated with it. Even students that are older and can read will like to read this book, because it is full of made up words that they are not reading on an everyday basis. This is definitely in...more
I LOVE THIS BOOK! This book explores real words as well as made up words and rhymes them. It is a great way for children to visualize rhyming and word families and all of the fun that can come out of this area of learning.
Activities:
- Create word families in small groups, main purpose is the sounds of the words, at this beginning level of rhyming the realness of the words isn't the purpose of the lesson.
- When further along in the rhyming learning, pair students up and have them alternate word...more
Activities:
- Create word families in small groups, main purpose is the sounds of the words, at this beginning level of rhyming the realness of the words isn't the purpose of the lesson.
- When further along in the rhyming learning, pair students up and have them alternate word...more
By far my favorite Seuss book.
“There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!” is truly a brilliant book from the creative mind of Dr. Seuss and it is about how a young boy tells the audience about the strange yet fun-loving creatures that live in a young boy’s house. “There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!” is definitely one of the greatest books about rhyming ever written!
Dr. Seuss has done a splendid job at both writing and illustrating this book. Dr. Seuss illustrations are truly great and creative as he illustrates the boy with a red outfit an...more
Dr. Seuss has done a splendid job at both writing and illustrating this book. Dr. Seuss illustrations are truly great and creative as he illustrates the boy with a red outfit an...more
This is a very cute and fun book. However, I feel it would be difficult for young children to read who are just learning to read. There are so many words that are made up in it that they may struggle reading them and understanding that a 'wocket' is not a real thing. The same goes for all of the other creatures in the book. I really enjoyed it and thought it was fun, I like almost all of Dr. Seuss' books. I think it would be really fun for children to read just not so much as an educational piec...more
I am in love with this book. This has been my favorite book since I was a little kid and the joy it brings to me is crazy. From a Wasket in my Basket to a Bofa on my Sofa, it keeps me smiling the whole book through. I can relate to this book because when I was younger I would always be paranoid about things in my house and every sound and creak would frighten me. I always thought that there was someone or something in my house. Dr. Seuss is really a kids book genius.
I've got mad love for Dr. Seuss. I like most of the books by him I've read (That's really not that many. It's like 7). This book- I dunno. I had mixed feelings. I really wanted to like this book more than I did. It was okay. Unique like all of Dr. Seuss's books, but I just didn't feel like a great connection with this book. (As you can probably tell) I am having trouble explaining my feelings about this book. I liked it, and it was cute- I just like his other books better.
There's a Wocket in My Pocket! is a story of a little boy who has a Wocket in his Pocket. The Wocket goes everywhere he goes and bothers him all the time. The boy gets bad at the Wocket and the Wocket goes away, this is when the boy realzies he missed the Wocket and apologizes. The major theme of this story is you don't know what you have until it's gone and not to take anything for granted. This story can be used as an example of how NOT to solve a problem with someone who is bothering you, and...more
Apr 14, 2013
Kyle Rasor
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
childrens-picture
This is another great Dr. Seuss book. He takes simple words and makes the rhyme with non sense words, for example Wocket and Pocket. The book is very colorful and visually appealing to the reader. Like most of Dr. Seuss books, I feel it is great for beginning readers. The book helps them sound out words while having fun reading. On top of the great rhyming the pictures are so bright, colorful and attractive. Each page you get lost in a new world.
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Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, MA. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both carto...more
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“All those Nupboards in the Cupboards they're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush.....Him I could do without.”
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