Three \u201ceducational\u201d books from the Cat in the Hat franchise<\/strong><\/p>\n These three books made their way into our home as books tend to do when you have a toddler. We read lots of Dr. Seuss when I was a kid so I wasn\u2019t surprised that they captured my toddler\u2019s interest. These are all part of the same series so I\u2019ll review them together in one post. <\/p>\n Oh, the Things You Can Do that are Good for You!<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOh, the Things You Can Do that are Good for You!\u201d by Tish Rabe and Illustrated by Aristides Ruiz is part of \u201cThe Cat in the Hat\u2019s Learning Library\u201d and is all about self-care. Using rhymes, unusual creatures and Dr. Seuss\u2019 signature style, the book explores topics such as personal hygiene, diet, safety and sleep. <\/p>\n To my great dismay, my toddler loves this book and requests it frequently. I actually have fantasised about giving it away many times, but haven\u2019t been able to bring myself to do so because of how much she likes it. Despite it having about a million (40) pages, she is glued to it the entire time. There is one particular page with the Zing-Singing Zanz who sings about wshing hands, which I sing in a different tune every time, that she really enjoys. <\/p>\n However, this book is a prime example of why not everything needs to be part of a franchise. The rhyming often feels really clunky and contrived, with a particular stanza really annoying me: <\/p>\n It can travel two metres Why do you need \u2018over\u2019 twice in the same line?? The information also seems out of date and inaccurate, and the carbohydrate-heavy food pyramid and mandatory breakfast instruction is giving 1990s Kellogg\u2019s propaganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n An annoying book that I simply can\u2019t throw away. <\/p>\n A Great Day for Pup<\/span><\/p>\n The next book in the collection is \u201cA Great Day for Pup\u201d by Bonnie Worth and illustrated by Aristides Ruiz about baby animals. <\/p>\n Again, this book is not very thorough when it comes to facts and accuracy, and most annoying to me is that it insinuates in the early pages that the ostrich (rather than the emu) is native to Australia. Books that are inaccurate<\/a> about Australian wildlife really irritate me, so this was already a black mark. It also suggests that penguins and polar bears are located in the same place, where penguins live almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere while polar bears are located primarily around the Arctic circle. <\/p>\n Mercifully, I don\u2019t think my toddler has been able to sit through an entire reading of this book and rarely requests it. I think I could get away with sneaking it out of the house. <\/p>\n On Beyond Bugs!<\/span><\/p>\n The final book we have in this series is \u201cOn Beyond Bugs!\u201d by Tish Rabe and illustrated by Aristides Ruiz which is, would you believe it, about bugs. <\/p>\n Again the \u2018facts\u2019 presented in this book are very questionable, with the book at one point declaring \u2018insects cannot see all the things that surround them\u2019 while at the same time depicting insects with eyes. Yes, insects have a different type of vision to us but they do have vision. <\/p>\n My toddler has been able to sit through even less of this book than the baby animals one, which says a lot given how much she likes to talk about insects. <\/p>\n Factually inaccurate and derivative, I hope that I can give at least two of these books away. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n![\"Photo](\"https:\/\/tintededges.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wp-17823891405213497735973478348543.jpg\")
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