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Oh the Things You Can Do That Are Good for You!: All About Staying Healthy (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library)

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This is one of the better books in The Cat in the Hat Learning Library series. The rhymes are reminiscent of the true Seussian style as are the characters in the book.

The topics this book covers are: exercise, germs, washing, food pyramid, drinking water, brushing your teeth, wearing helmets and getting enough sleep.

I like this book because it taught me all different things when i was littler. Like how to brush my teeth, floss, wash my hands, wash my hair, get exercise,how to deal with a cold, the right food to eat, and how its important at the end of the day to get your rest. This book taught me so much and im thankful for that.
Alyssa Seifferly

The book is great and has wonderful healthy positive messages. My kids love it and ask to read it over and over. The only dissapointment is that it still has one page with the old food guide pyramid.

My kids (boys 8 and 5) still ask to hear this book at bedtime at least once every couple of weeks, so obviously the intended audience enjoys this. My own objections -- having read the thing aloud to said kids at least 100 times -- are largely aesthetic. The rhymes in this book are either strained

It can travel five feet
and blasts out with great power
at speeds over one hundred
miles an hour!

or facile (the Garoo in Fadoo tell me true, they do - just like you!) to a degree that bugs me as a Seuss fan.

To be fair, this problem turns up throughout the Learning Library series, not just in the volumes written by Tish Rabe. When you have to cover every health issue under the sun short of cancer and addiction (or every dinosaur or aspect of plant reproduction), it's probably pretty rough to hold a rhyme scheme and use words that kids can understand. Rabe does a respectable enough job at it that -- well, guess what the little Dinos want to hear again tonight?

This is a highly rated book for the teachers and schools that partner with our organization. Dr. Suess has been an effective way to relay many messages, but this message on health is great! Students do better with hygiene education when it is done in a fun manner. If you want your students learn good health habits, avoid sickness and spread less infection- then get this book and read it to them. It is recommended to have a copy in each classroom and shared periodically (maybe construct some art or hygiene lesson activity around the book).

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This is one of the few books my one year old enjoys. A combination of nice colorful pictures with kids and a rhythm she likes.

good and cute for the kids. i used this as a corny way to present to a drug and alcohol class about hygiene.

This is the book my 4 year old chooses to have read to him everyday at nap time. It really is a very fun and educational book. I think as a registered dietitan I actually enjoy the book as much as him. Finally, a book that makes nutrition, exercise and good health look fun!

Great, fun book for young children. Wonderful way to introduce young ones to the ideas of eating right and staying fit so they can be healthy and strong. I will be using it in a preschool age classroom but my own children would have really enjoyed this one.

I just got this book, which I had intended to share with my daughter then donate to our school library, and was very dissappointed to find most of the pages had been marked all up with orange crayon and some pages were ripped! ugh... I'm all about recycling, but please people, don't sell books and stuff that's been defaced or trashed PLEASE!