Customer Reviews

On Beyond Bugs: All About Insects (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library)

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I got this book for a 4 yr old daughter of a friend and she's now intrigued by the insect world. Personally I love how the bumble bee illustration has taught her about how bees communicate through the bumble bee "dance." On the whole, it's nicely educational on an introductory level -- general facts/concepts are taught through illustrations and rhyme. Great for the young ones. Another favorite of mine is the Dr. Seuss Great Big Flap Book.

I bought this book for my 4-year old son and he loves it! My husband and I love reading it to him and his baby sister who often also listens along. The book is educational yet great fun to read with its rhyming and fun verses. It teaches without being heavy-handed and even taught us, the parents, a thing or two we didn't know about the insect world! We all enjoy this book tremendously and love the other Cat in the Hat Learning series books as well.

My girls are 5 and 3 and I wanted a non-fiction learning book for them that would still capture their interest. This series of books has really done that. The rhyming keeps them engaged and they ask questions related to the content. I recommend this and the others in the series to parents looking for a good learning book.

Another wonderful book for my grandson who is seven years old and just learning to read. It's a fun book with lots of new words and makes learning fun.

I purchased an entire set of these Learning Library books for my grandson. He loves the rhyming way they read and really is interested in the information also. It was money well spent in my estimation. These stay at Grandma's house and the whole set is a favorite of his. When he choses books to read at bedtime, the whole set will come out sometimes. They are excellent for preschool/kindergarten age children.

You can't go wrong with the Cat in the Hat series of books. This one lives up to the high standard of excellence in every way. It even makes you love bugs! A great buy from Amazon.com.

This is not one of the best books in the series. While it is factual, the rhyming is sloppy--in one stanza a word is rhymed with itself and in another stanza, the word from the beginning of the next phrase is placed at the end of another phrase so that the stanza will rhyme. All in all, this type of sloppy rhyming is extremely disappointing coming from the "Cat in the Hat"!

Don't be fooled into thinking these are Dr. Seuss books; they are knockoffs done after Geisel's death. The rhymes are not nearly as good as real Seuss; I stumble over the awkward lines every time I read it.