In the matter of books, Rocco is like a rude pagan king surrounded by literate priests he neither trusts nor is yet prepared to dismiss from his service.
It never occurred to me that Pat and Pop were the same character, but now that you mention it, maybe they might be based on the ears? Maybe Pat is just Pop with gloves and his toe hair trimmed?
Hello Daniel. I come bearing extremely urgent news. You may or may not already know that the Seuss board books are horribly wan imitations of the books they quietly abridge. It is bad in Hop On Pop but far worse in other cases, like Dr. Seuss's ABC's. If this is news to you I must urge you get your hands on the full versions as soon as possible.
we have a same age baby and he often greatly prefers the first few pages of a text to any subsequent pages although will make exceptions on occasion. but usually it is a FURIOUS flip-through of any pages other than 1-4
Absolutely delightful. You sent me right back to 7 years ago when my own 1-year-old liked exactly one page of one book and it was “I am not your mother, I am a dog, said the dog” from a board book version of PD Eastman’s “Are You My Mother?” Image link:
I admire your appreciation for dramatizing the voices. In “I am a dog,” I don’t think I’m just flattering myself by saying I won his affection for the page the first time I read it when I chose to use an Ed Wynn voice for the dog. My evidence is that Jack would rush me through the first few pages, land on that page, and NEVER allow me to turn past it to other pages. Then I would read the dog page as the Mad Hatter. He would continue to stare with his bottle. He taps the page. I read it again. Silence. He taps the page. I read it. Silence. We repeat about 7 times before he closes the book and story time is over. He would accept no other books (or the remainder of that one) for a couple of months. I treasure the memory.
Brilliantly fun as usual. Bring on the burlesque violence!
~We taught our kinglet the "baby signs" for "book" and "please" which were so adorable that it alleviated our feelings of serfdom.
It never occurred to me that Pat and Pop were the same character, but now that you mention it, maybe they might be based on the ears? Maybe Pat is just Pop with gloves and his toe hair trimmed?
it's got to be the same guy, right? it never occurred to me that they could be different guys!
Now that I'm studying them more closely they also have kind of different noses. Maybe they're related?
Hello Daniel. I come bearing extremely urgent news. You may or may not already know that the Seuss board books are horribly wan imitations of the books they quietly abridge. It is bad in Hop On Pop but far worse in other cases, like Dr. Seuss's ABC's. If this is news to you I must urge you get your hands on the full versions as soon as possible.
we have a same age baby and he often greatly prefers the first few pages of a text to any subsequent pages although will make exceptions on occasion. but usually it is a FURIOUS flip-through of any pages other than 1-4
Amazing!
Absolutely delightful. You sent me right back to 7 years ago when my own 1-year-old liked exactly one page of one book and it was “I am not your mother, I am a dog, said the dog” from a board book version of PD Eastman’s “Are You My Mother?” Image link:
https://images.app.goo.gl/pezwUg6MyEy1m6nY6
I admire your appreciation for dramatizing the voices. In “I am a dog,” I don’t think I’m just flattering myself by saying I won his affection for the page the first time I read it when I chose to use an Ed Wynn voice for the dog. My evidence is that Jack would rush me through the first few pages, land on that page, and NEVER allow me to turn past it to other pages. Then I would read the dog page as the Mad Hatter. He would continue to stare with his bottle. He taps the page. I read it again. Silence. He taps the page. I read it. Silence. We repeat about 7 times before he closes the book and story time is over. He would accept no other books (or the remainder of that one) for a couple of months. I treasure the memory.
No Pat don't sit on that is objectively the best part
I rank every line of this 10/10!!!
I related so well to this that I'm starting to wonder if all one-year-olds are the same now. ;-)