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Summary: Ed, Ned, Ted, and Red in Bed??
Review: "Hop on Pop" and "Green Eggs and Ham" were the apex of Theodore Giesel's (Dr. Seuss's) creative genius. Hop on Pop is a rhythmic romp through the joys of reading, rhyme, and sight for babies, infants, toddlers, and parents alike. The work is both ageless and timeless. I read this book to my 4-month old and it never fails to get him squealing and wide-eyed in delight. Maybe he doesn't understand the subtlety and weirdness of three fish in a tree or a bunch of people in bed together but it was the sixties...besides their names rhyme, so there is fun to still be had in the PC 00's.There are so many things to enjoy about this book, that it's hard to find a place to begin. The weird hybrid creatures, the creative rhymes and wordplay...my favorites are the thing that can sing a long long song. I break out in overblown Pavarotti-extravagance singing and the boy is sure to either laugh or look at me strangely...is this Dad or is this an alien? But the biggest joy of the book comes at the end when Seuss strings together endless rhymes with endless rhythm in the string of run-on words, "hethreemewepatpuppophethreetreebeetophopstop." It will be indelibly stamped on your brain and give your child the joy of reading as well as reminding you how truly fun words and pictures can be. Thanks for all times go out to the good Doctor.
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Summary: Fun & Laughter Will Not Stop with Hop On Pop
Review: Although ... advertises this book for ages 4-8, my wife and I started reading this and other Seuss books to our children from 6 months on. Always a delight, our kids would laugh at the silliness while acquiring a zest for life at the same time. 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 Hop On Pop while growing up. My kids never fail to want to horse around and hop on pop just upon reference to the book. Combine this with other fun Seuss books and your kids will sit enthralled as you turn the pages. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Pop got Hopped
Review: As one of the first books I ever read, it is great to see that this book is as timeless as when I was young. My three kids (who all call me Pop)-as well as two others who are staying with us-have all enjoyed this wonderful book. They all have been read this book many times. Each has struggled through reading it to me when they learned to read. Dr. Seuss' creativity shines in the playful book. It is very help in teaching rhyming and is a great candidate for a first reader-as there are very few words while the story still engages the child. This book created a family tradition as the kids have hopped on "Pop" on many times!
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Summary: A classic!
Review: Children have been reading and loving this book for what seems like forever! It is an abslutely perfect book for the "I'm on the verge of reading..." child. It's easy to follow and the rhyming format allows the child to sound out a great many words--it's a great confidence builder. The illustrations are silly and fun. Can't go wrong with this one.
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Summary: simple words, easy rythm make this great for pre-readers
Review: For children who are learning with phonics, this is a superb book. The words are fairly easy and the easy rythm and rhyming make this a great book for those kids who need all the context clues they can to figure out a word. For younger children the pictures and rhymes and rythm make this a fun one to sit down and be read to. This one is a true favorite of mine and of my children.
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Summary: An old friend....
Review: God, I loved this book. Get it, I implore you. Don't deprive your children of this story.
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Summary: Way over the rainbow
Review: Hop on Pop is a children's book that promotes alternative lifestyles. Mr. Brown introduces us to his wife, and promptly abandons her, goes off to the big city and returns with a very odd companion. Another man. What if you son went off the the city and came back with Mr. Black? Perhaps you should examine this book more closely! The mysterious "Mr. Black" appears to be a Chassidic Rabbi. So the innocent Mr. Brown was not only recruited into the lavender lifestyle when he turned "upside down," but also entered a relationship outside his faith community. We can assume that Mr. Brown was a decent, church-going man and now he's back from the big city, arm in arm with the nefarious Mr. Black, not only a Hebrew but no doubt a Communist to boot. The al fresco meal they share, with not the good Mrs. Brown (completely out of the picture now that Mr. Brown has discovered
The Rainbow Connection) but a perverted pup, foreshadows a decline into animal action on the last page. (I thank Senator Santorum, R-PA, for alerting us to the danger of man on dog.) The children are not tucked into their own, separate beds but share a blanket, AND join a large un-Biblical mammal called a Zeep. Let us return to that repast with Brown, Black and that sick puppy. They are eating sandwiches which are held such that the point is entering each of their mouths, turning the innocent nourishment of children into that dreaded symbol of a certain element: the triangle. The deliberately slanted handmeal shows Seuss's evil plan to normalize this lifestyle, by flaunting the symbol to innocent children. The linked sausages represent another disturbing but true aspect, namely the "elephant walk;" chained carnal acts with anonymous males. These comestibles left lounging on the picnic blanket stand in for the multiple "receptions" one receives when recruited. The banana bunch in the bowl, suggestive of multiple mesmerized male members, only reemphasizes that point, showing how Seuss will stop at nothing to ensure our children will be taken into that unwholesome lifestyle. The final insult are the five apples on the picnic blanket, which no doubt reflect the Forbidden Fruit. Seuss mocks all believers by displaying this produce at a perverse picnic featuring the recruited Mr. Brown, the commie fey Rebbe Black, and that disgusting canine who dares to stand on his hind legs: the number of apples are exactly the same as the number of wounds our Savior bore. I assure you this was deliberate. And Literal Man thought there was something twisted about Red, Ned, Ted and Ed sharing only one bed! Dig deeper, LM, much much deeper! There is a reason there is a RED fish in his other poetry volume. Be very afraid.
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Summary: Hop on PoP!
Review: Hop on Pop is a great book for someone to read it is full of rhyming words and pictures to describe the book. This is a great book with alot of things to like about it. The pictures explain exactly what the words are saying so if it is hard to say u can see it and try to think of it that way. This book is great for yonger readers because it gives you visual and reading skills.
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Summary: A great book for young children
Review: Hop on Pop is a great book written for younger children. Dr. Seuss' use of rhyming and repitition is a wonderful way to teach children how to read. This was one of the first books that I learned to read and now I am using it to teach my niece how to read. It is a great book along with the many others written by Dr. Seuss.
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Summary: How he learned to read
Review: Hop on Pop is where my son's hardcover book reading started. His kindergarten teacher was having personal issues during his critical learning year so it was left to his parents to fill the void. Hop on Pop was the beginning. Now, in his fifth grade year, Redwall, Potter, Tolkien and Snicket have been read and we wait for new issues. Dr. Seuss, you were our foundation.
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