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And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street is a book by Dr. Seuss on third grade level. The book is written in rhyme and is very easy to read. The main character is a boy whose father wants him to report what he saw on the way home from school. The boy makes up incredible sights that get more exciting as the book continues. He visualizes an elephant with a great brass band and a zebra pulling a cart. In the end, however, he just tells the truth-that he saw nothing but a plain horse and wagon.

The website is www.seussville.com. The site is entertaining and has jolly music when you first sign on. All of the books are listed and a short synopsis written about each one. There is a game link and a link to sign up for a monthly electronic newsletter.

earobinson | Dec 1, 2009 |

A boy imagines a series of incredible sights on his way home from school so that he will have an interesting report to give his father.

hgcslibrary | Nov 29, 2009 |

This book is about a little boy Marco, who has an amazing imagination that he uses to stretch the truth. This is a great rhyming book and a fun read aloud. It can also be a lesson to children about being truthful. (

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Necampos | Nov 15, 2009 |

This is a great book for testing imagination. Watching one simple change in imagination turn into a giant imaginative experience. This is great for rhyming words and can also be used to teach a lesson about telling the truth. Children need to study imagination, and this book can help them create their own imaginative experiences.

smendel18 | Oct 26, 2009 |

Marco wants a story to tell his dad that he observed walking to school, but he can never find anything exciting enough. He decides to start with a horse and a wagon that he really did see and make it more exciting by fabricating it. In the end, he decides not to tell the story to his dad.

cbpritchard | Sep 10, 2009 |

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Marco is in a pickle. His father has instructed him to keep his eyes peeled for interesting sights on the way to and from school, but all Marco has seen is a boring old horse and wagon. Imagine if he had something more to report, say, a zebra pulling the wagon. Or better yet, the zebra could be pulling a blue and gold chariot. No, wait! Maybe it should be a reindeer in that harness. Marco's story grows ever more elaborate as he reasons that a reindeer would be happier pulling a sled, then that a really unusual sight would be an elephant with a ruby-bedecked rajah enthroned on top. "Say! That makes a story that no one can beat, / When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street." Time and again, Marco tops himself until he is positively wound up with excitement and bursts into his home to tell his dad what he saw on Mulberry Street.

Pulitzer-prize winning Dr. Seuss needs no introduction. His ode to the imagination of a child is as fresh and exquisitely outlandish today as it was when first published in 1937. This is a classic that will never fade with age. (Ages 3 to 8) --Emilie Coulter

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