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Vintage Dr Seuss Beginner Books Book Club One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
This listing is for a clean very lightly loved pre owned vintage 1960 book, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish from the Book Club Edition of Dr. Seuss' Beginner Book Series. This book is clean and tight, but there is some light wear to the cover edges and the corners from age and storage. Beginner Books was a subsidiary of Random House partly owned by Dr. Seuss and his wife (Ted and Helen Geisel), and for a time, Geisel was the editor. The first Beginner Book published was The Cat In The Hat by Dr. Seuss (1957). Other well-known writers and illustrators whose books were included in this series were Jan and Stan Berenstain, P. D. Eastman, Walter Farley, Al Perkins, and Mike McLintock. Bennet Cerf. The series was a response to Rudolf Flesch's book, Why Johnny Can't Read (1955) and was meant to provide a substitute for the widely used but bland Dick and Jane readers.
Written in 1960 by Dr. Seuss this is a simple rhyming book for beginning readers, with a freewheeling plot about a boy and a girl named Jay and Kay and the many amazing creatures they have for friends and pets. Interspersed are some surreal and unrelated skits, such as a man named Ned whose feet stick out from his bed, a creature who has a bird in his ear, and one man named Joe who cannot hear the other man's call. As of 2001, over 6 million copies of the book had been sold, placing it 13th on a list of "All-Time Bestselling Children's Books" from Publishers Weekly. Based on a 2007 online poll, the NEA listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children." |