Wacky Wednesday

We've all had them. Those days that just seem to be crazy and wacky. Those days that you just want to go get back in bed and not get back up again until the next day.

Well, this little children's book puts a funny little twist to those days. It makes learning to count fun and funny! Some of the people around him make him feel like he is the crazy one, then he comes across someone who helps him out and let's him know he isn't quite as crazy as people try to make him out to be.

Oh such is Life! Sometimes, you feel like you're the only one going through some craziness until you run into that one person that lets you know: No, it's not just you! I deal with it or have dealt with it as well!

This has become yet another favorite Dr. Seuss show more book! Yes, I am a "bit old" to be going through these just to go through them, but, there are so many books that I know weren't read to me when I was little because they either came out as I got older and/or we just didn't know about them at the time. It also just may be that I don't remember some of them because I was so young.

Wacky Wednesday was a fun, cute read in a way that only Dr. Seuss and these types of books can be! show less

Like most of the books written under Dr. Seuss’ secondary pen name (Theo LeSieg) and illustrated by other individuals, Wacky Wednesday falls short of the full Seussical magic that imbues many of his other books. The basis for the story, the increasing wackiness of this particular Wednesday as observed by an increasingly confused young protagonist, is strong as it contains the seed of whimsy that Dr. Seuss’ mad-cap stories are known for, but without his unique style of illustrations the story misses the mark by a hair. The narration is simple, essentially asking readers to spot an increasing number of wacky occurrences with each scene as the boy goes about his day, which provides young readers with lots of entertainment with each show more turn of the page. But with Seuss not providing any specific direction to the illustrator in terms of content, free reign and madness could be explored at whim, yet Booth’s style is a touch too simple and doesn’t reach the potential that Seuss set him up for. I’m not sure why Seuss himself didn’t bother illustrating this book (1974 seems to be right in the midst of his career, though at a bit of a point of decline), but it seems a shame that we missed out on what could have been one of his most whimsically illustrated books! show less

Not to give anything away, but…
It all begins with a shoe on the wall!

One of my favorite books from childhood! I loved trying to find the amount of 'wacky' mistakes on each page! And I always had a hard time on the pages where you have to find 20 (turns out, I still do!)

This was fun to share with the five year old in my life, even if he couldn't read the 2 or 3 'wacky' written errors! He giggled quite often at the silliness of it all! I did too!

A young child wakes up on Wednesday to find a shoe stuck on the wall, and the day only gets more bizarre from there!

This early book from Dr. Seuss (under a different pen name) and illustrator George Booth follows the young child to school and back as stranger and stranger things happen. I read this book aloud with my niece several times, and we both enjoyed pointing out the unusual things on each page, like a palm tree growing out of a toilet, a door that leads to nowhere, an alligator in a baby stroller, and more. It's a good book for spending time one-on-one with a child (or for a young reader to look at on her or his own).

This is not one of my favorite [a:Dr. Seuss|61105|Dr. Seuss|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1193930952p2/61105.jpg] (or [a:Theo LeSieg|398177|Theo LeSieg|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1210787606p2/398177.jpg]) books, but my son (3 1/2) enjoyed it immensely. It's a bit different from the other Dr. Seuss books too, and the wittiness here lies not in the text but in the illustrations that come with it. Already on the first page, something is wrong with the picture. And at each turn of page, you will see more and more "wacky" things. It gets a bit repetitive, shoes turn up in the strangest places, there are "wacky" animals all over the place, heads and legs will be missing, things don't touch the ground ... show more But, my son laughed so hard at some of them that I couldn't but be smitten.

There's a lot to look for on every page, so it's takes a while to get through the book. And, sure, it can be instructive. Some of the "wrongs" are even somewhat subtle, such as misspellings of words, and different combinations of colors, stars and stripes in the American flag. So, if you're reading for your child, you can have him find the appropriate number of "wrongs" on each page spread. But, it's not a great read-aloud, for having to stop all the time to look for things it's hard to attain a good reading cadence and get the rhymes to flow. It's probably a better book for independent readers, and I know my little guy will be coming back to it soon to read it all by himself. He'll get a kick out of that. show less

This is a Dr. Seuss story that tells about a day where everything seems to go wrong and be a little off. As a girl goes through her day and through her town she notices more and more things that are wrong. This is a fantasy because it contains several things that could never happen in real life. I think this would be a fun book to use in a read aloud because students could find all the different things that are goofy and out of place.

Media: Ink and wash

This is a perfect read aloud to get children laughing and wanted to look at the pictures. Dr. Seuss is not only clever with his rhymes, but the illustrator George Booth is very clever with his drawings. On each page there are many things that are hidden, but are very clever. For example, one of the pages, there is a picture of Abe Lincoln with the label George Washington underneath, there is also an old man with a long beard sitting in a classroom with all young students, on another page if you look closely you will see a worm chasing a bird. These illustrations are very entertaining and make you want to listen to the story. The story itself is fun due to the rhyming and the silly phrases and words, for example, "I looked in the show more Kitchen. I said, "By cracky!" Five more things are very wacky. This book is a fun and easy read for ages k-3 and I recommend all students hear this book being read along with reading it themselves. show less