![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seuss concocted a frenetic rhyming wonder about the Cat in the Hat and his kite-flying sidekicks, Thing 1 and Thing 2, who create havoc while the mother is away. It is remarkable that such a limited palette could be transformed into two such divergent reading experiences. The results were Little Bear and The Cat in the Hat, each written with a vocabulary of fewer than 250 mostly monosyllabic words. Seuss was given a list of 348 words by his publisher and challenged to do something with them. Else Holmelund Minarik, a first grade teacher on Long Island, was prompted by the dearth of interesting books for early readers, her young daughter among them. In 1957, two authors, independently, set out to write a book that could help young children learn to read. ![]()
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