Great Day for Up!

I generally can't stand Dr. Seuss books, but I really like this one, probably for three reasons: 1. the illustrations are by Quentin Blake instead; 2. there are no made-up words; and 3. it is unrelentingly positive, without the mean behavior of Seuss classics like Green Eggs and Ham or The Cat in the Hat.

First sentence: Up! Up! The sun is getting up. The sun gets up. So UP with you!

Premise/plot: Do you like getting up in the morning? The book is gentle prompting to do just that. "Up" being the prominent word of the entire book. But does the narrator himself end up getting out of bed? Read and see for yourself!

My thoughts: I liked the "twist" ending. I did. Overall, I liked this one fine. I didn't love, love, love it. But it's certainly an entertaining enough read.

Have you read Great Day for UP! Did you like it? love it? hate it? I'd love to know what you thought of it!

Dr. Seuss is always a fun read, and in the book "great day for up" he gives positivity to kids. The book goes through telling all the different animals to wake up because its time for the day to begin. Telling them all to get up, up,up. It shows waiters and everybody starting their day, saying its a great day for up. Everybody is awake, and ready for the day. Except for the kid, the kids sleeping in today.
I think this gives a good positive feel to waking up in the morning. It reminds me that everybody's up, and I should be to. We all wake up to be a part of society.
This is a good book for the beginning of the school year, or maybe even just the beginning of the week. The rhymes wake you up, and i believe it would make a kid want to get show more up and have fun
Children should enjoy the fun of this book, and remember that everyday is a new day. show less

This book is super cute and inspires young children to get active. The rhyming makes the book funny and easy to pay attention. The illustrations are also colorful and vibrant.

When the sun gets up, the rabbits get up. So do the whales and the snails. Soon baseballs and kites are up in the air, and people are going up stairs and ladders and ferris wheels. It seems like everyone is up . . . well, almost everyone.

This book is very uplifting. It is a book that rhymes and discussing getting up for the ay. It talks about getting everyone in the world up from people to animals. It shows everyone so happy to be up and moving and doing things with their day. This story takes a cute turn at the end when one person on the very last page states that they are not getting up because they are going to stay in bed all day. This would be a good book to talk about happy days and to uplift spirits but also to show that its okay to have days where you just want to relax or rest and be by yourself.

Dr. Seuss let's somebody else draw his book on "Up": "Great Day for Up" is a unique Dr. Seuss book and you can tell this just by looking at the cover. That is because while the book is written by Dr. Seuss it features the jolly drawings of the English artist Quentin Blake. Until this point every time I have read a book written by Dr. Seuss it was also illustrated by Dr. Seuss and when somebody else did the drawings Dr. Seuss used the name Theo. LeSieg (which is "Geisel" backwards). So the fact that this is a real "Dr. Seuss" book drawn by somebody else is pretty special.This Bright and Early Book provides rhymed text and illustrations introducing the many meanings of the word "up" as Seuss and Blake show beginning readers that this is a show more "Great day for up!" You get the point half way through the book but little kids should be able to hand on longer, especially when they are reading the book for themselves. Besides, by the end of "Great Day for Up" we get to the point where "EVERYONE on Earth is up!" (with one very important and rather ironic exception). As with all of the Bright and Early Books for Beginning Beginners what you have here is a brief and funny story, where the words are few and easy, there is a catchy rhythm, and the pictures are happy and colorful clues to the text. These are designed for an even lower age group than the Bright and Early Books that followed "The Cat in the Hat," which was the "Harry Potter" of its day when it came to encouraging even pre-schoolers to discover the delights of reading for themselves. This is not one of the most interesting volumes in the series, but overall these books were a delight. show less