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Hooper Humperdink...? Not Him! (Bright and Early Book, #22)

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Although [advertised] for ages 4-8, my wife and I started reading this and other Seuss books to our children from 6 months on. We started a great habit of reading two or three Seuss books before bed, and the kids loved them. Soon, they would memorize many of the phrases, beginning a lifelong passion for reading.

Every kid should experience reading Hooper Humperdink while growing up. Hooper Humperdink..? Not Him! combines the zaniness of other Seuss books with a lesson about excluding others. Around ages 4+, kids begin to divide the world into various segments (i.e. boys and girls). This book helps children learn how hurtful excluding someone for being different can be. Combine this with other fun Seuss books and your kids will sit enthralled as you turn the pages. Highly recommended.

I love this book! When my son was 2 (now 20) he would have us read this book to him, repeatedly! The book belonged to his cousin. Every time we went to their house he ran to get the book and we had to read it. So when he got sick and had to be hospitalized his aunt gave it to him. Over the years the book was lost and now, as a surprise, I am trying to find it for him to keep for his future children. I can still remember his little voice saying "read Hoopy Humpydank"!

Kids love this book. Get with it and put it back in print. It is a favorite for circle-time reading and evening oral reading time. Please reconsider its availability and print it again!

When we were younger, my mother use to read to my older brother, my older sister, and I every night. Although the census was generally divided, my mother could always appease each of us by reading "Hooper Humperdink...Not Him!" It was and still is undoubtedly our favorite book. My brother is now a US Marine. My sister is, as always, excelling in her second year of pharmacy school. I am attending a liberal arts university on scholarship with a major in biochemistry. The three of us still recall the back inside cover of the book, an illustration of a rollercoaster dotted with the letters of the alphabet. The routine after reading the book was to find all the letters of your name the quickest--and to this day we still know how to spell our names! Imagine that! My mother also remembers almost every line to the story. However, she now needs some refreshing and has now ordered a new copy, as we had given away our haggered original long ago to those we deemed worthy.

We stayed at a friend's beach house this summer and my 2 1/2 year old daughter found this book on their bookshelf. It was the older version with incredible illustrations--not these newer illustrations, which I do not care for as much...

Anyway, I must have read it to her about 100 times during the two weeks we were at the beach and had to find her a copy (of the older version) when we got home.

It seemed a little sad the first few times I read it, but actually it teaches a lot about acceptance.

A great book!

This book is a rhythmatic documentation of how humans tend to exclude others. People don't really care about how they make others feel. People only care about what others think of them and their own personal success and well being. This book makes me sad to read. I used to love it as a child...but now that I get it...it's more saddening than the most despressing love story. It's funny that Seuss sumerized the most accurate perception of socialogy in childrens books. And as a added bonus...you can also learn your ABC's! I'm gonna go cry now.

To those that have loved Hooper Humperdink - it can be found on Amazon.com.UK!

I remember it vividly as a backdrop of my childhood. The illustrations were so vivid, and the story so beautiful to hear. I had to have this book back in my life!!!

My brothers had this book when they were young. I can still, 20 years later, remember the lines from the book. Anyone who is lucky enough to actually find this book in print should quickly pick it up for any young child in their life.

What a shame they've changed the author's name (Dr. Suess did write it, but did so under his pen name Theo. LeSieg, which was his practice when he didn't illustrate the book.) An even bigger pity: that they should have a different illustrator. Charles Martin illustrated the original and did a fine job at that.

I wake up in my sleep muttering the words of this book to myself. its driving me mad. driving me mad I say.