How Wet Can You Get?

The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That

by Tish Rabe; Aristides Ruiz

Sally and Nick are playing in the rain—and getting really muddy! So when the Cat in the Hat offers to show them how animals get clean, the kids are keen to find out. But can Sally and Nick really get rid of the mud by taking dust baths, like a sparrow? Or by licking themselves, like a lion? And where are they going to find an oxpecker to pick it off them, like a hippo has? (Besides, oxpeckers tickle!) Maybe there's a better way for a kid to get clean? Based on an episode of the new PBS Kids program The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! , this 16-page Pictureback comes with a sheet of adorable stickers featuring all the mud encrusted characters.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Animals, Science, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 11, 2011

Reviews

[Tony Lewis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Title: How Wet Can you get? (The Cat in the Hat Knows a lot About That)
Author: Adapted by Tish Rabe
Illustrator: Aristades Ruiz and Joe Mathieu
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publishing Date: 2011
ISBN Number: 978-0-375-86517-6

Summary: Nick and Sally join the Cat in the Hat on an adventure to find out what animals do to get clean. They visit a bird who uses dirt, a hippo who uses mud, and a lion who licks her fur. They find out that water works just fine for them. The illustrations are very colorful and fun. The words are built into exciting rhymes and the science aspect of literacy is useful in this story.

Age Level: 3-8

Instructional Uses and Student Activities: This book is a lot of fun and very enjoyable to read. It would be a great independent reader to keep children interested in reading on their own. The stanzas are rhyming lines that use pleasing words for the children to get rolling with. The opportunity for introducing poems and learning to rhyme with words and lines in four sentence procedures is presented. The children could also find many more books of this quality and the older books of Dr. Seuss could be introduced and revisited. Science books would make a great resource for literacy in this content area. the students could use one of the three animals and research and write about what else these animals do.

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

This Cat in the Hat books illustrated Nick and Sally being covered in mud and takes a look into how animals such as birds, hippos and lions remove dirt and mud from themselves. Through create rhyming and innovative vocabulary they discover that using water from a hose would be the best way to get themselves clean. This book can be used to teach rhyming as well as hygeine methods I suppose.

[Melenia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my favorite

[Dodie · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good book for a kids.