![]() It feels like it wasn't edited very well. But mostly it's nonsensical without being interesting. The back of the book says, "A collection of hilarious nonsense which makes sense in its ability to teach children to read and understand the use of words and phrases." I guess it's helpful to beginning readers that the main words are in capital letters before they're used in mixed-case sentences. But it's still rather boring and not very useful. Brown in it, from before he got his own book ("Mr. HIM JIM Jim is after him." Below those words, there's an illustration of a man being bitten in the toe by something that looks sort of like a lion, and then the lion is being bitten in the tail by a little boy ("Jim") who looks very angry. Some of it's goofy and the illustrations make it a bit more interesting than the average word book, like the one for "HE ME He is after me. ![]() In some places, it focuses on opposites and prepositions and things like that. It's kind of on the same lines as "I'll Teach My Dog 100 Words" except Seuss's word list rhymes, which is about the only way you can get through one of these without falling asleep. This is basically one of those word list books. ![]()
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