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Summary: The Silliness of Seuss Plus a Valuable Lesson
Review: 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.
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Summary: Great book for children
Review: I have an autistic child, with a limited vocabulary. He was given his first copy of this book when he was three. Since then we have worn one copy out and are starting on our second copy. It has help him with his speech, maybe because we read it almost every night. He will come to me and ask for Hooper, which he calls the book, and every time we come to the word Hooper he will say it. He dearly loves this book and I happen to know that my great-neice and nephew also like this book. I think that this is because of its ryhming qualities. I feel that this book is one of the better books ever written by Dr. Seuss for children.
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Summary: Hooper Humperdink? Not him!
Review: 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"!
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Summary: Hooper Humperdink - Not Him?
Review: 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!
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Summary: This is actually a very powerful book.
Review: 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 you ABC's! I'm gonna go cry now.
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Summary: good book to learn friendship
Review: this book shows how you can include everyone in everything and have one of the best times of your life. Its a good book to teach of the the life lessons
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Summary: good book to learn friendship
Review: This is a child's fantasy about what his birthday party could be. We don't know why Hooper Humperdink shouldn't come, and I felt sorry for the little guy as he hung around the periphery and watched the hundreds of other children swarm to this fantastic party. Fortunately, the party giver forgives Hooper for his failings and invites him after all. Phew! This is an alphabet book in disguise because the guest list is written in alphabetical order. Children whose names are featured will get an extra lit bit of joy when they get to read their name, especially if it's an unusual one. My daughter is in there, so I know this. :-)
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Summary: Hooper Humperdink? Not him!
Review: 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!!!
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Summary: Unforgetable-REALLY!
Review: 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.
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