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Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. And even if a person never has to introduce Timbuktu into their conversation for the rest of their lives, it is still a good word to know. The more a person works on developing their verbal skills, the more expansive their own vocabulary becomes. But the purpose has been served: language gets increasingly more complicated as you learn it. They stand out significantly from the vocabulary which comprises the bulk of the book and perhaps even present a challenge to some of those parents or babysitters. But “Constantinople” and, especially, “Timbuktu” are very fun words to hear.

While perhaps some very advanced beginning readers might make it past the first page or two, by the time they reach this point their head would be exploding. If there was any doubt that Hop on Pop is not a Seuss book intended to actually be read by its target audience, the conclusion should remove it entirely. Like CONSTANTINOPLE and TIMBUKTU Narrator Here, it can be seen that the rhyming is linking dad having a day that is both sad and bad. In the opening pages, the conceptualization of the rhymes are limited to a single image. The words used to make up sentences become more prevalent and the rhymes increase in sophisticated as the book moves forward. While there is no plot or any manifest connective tissue between the rhymes on the page, it does reveal a systematic approach. The point is to introduce young-very young-children to the miracle of language. By contrast, most of the readers of these lines-at least at first-are likely parents or babysitters or others of a more advanced age than the intended audience. Seuss in fact, it is likely the book which introduced many of them who would go on to read about the Grinch for themselves. Hop on Pop is designed for the youngest fans of Dr. It does not even feature a storyline as thin as Green Eggs and Ham. This is not a story book by Seuss like that one about the Grinch and Christmas. The opening lines set the stage for all that is to come. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.