The purpose of the book is to teach very young children very simple vocabulary, but I like the idea of a subtle message suggesting that the feet represent the different types of people we meet in life and how they’re all interesting and worth learning about. This isn’t quite the full page, but I really enjoy the image of lots and lots of feet crossing the pages toward the narrator. The candy-cane spine cover went for a completely different look with the “front feet, back feet” creature instead of our narrator that we see start and end the book on the inside. The board books cut out chunks of the stories so it probably doesn’t have moments like “here come clown feet” or “fuzzy fur feet.” They also chose to make the colors on he book opposite to what they original were, with a green back ground and white text instead of the other way around.
Seuss’s Wacky Book of Opposites”, which is true for the most part and is most likely simplified on the inside to only include the parts that are opposites like “up feet, down feet,” and “wet foot, dry foot,” etc. The Bright an Early Board Book cover adds the quote “Dr. He won the bet for Cat in the Hat and in this book used only 46 words total (including small words like a, the, and, at, etc.) If you omit the small words he used only 34 vocabulary words! It has even less words than Cat in the Hat which was written on a bet that Seuss couldn’t use only 50 words to write a book. This is also the first of the Bright and Early Books which were written for a “pre-reader” audience. It was written in the winter of 1967 while he was dealing with the financial and business gaps that Helen’s death left behind, and while Audrey divorced her first husband so she could marry Seuss. This is the first book that Seuss wrote after his first wife, Helen’s, death and before he married his second wife, Audrey. This book is short enough that I can actually just type out the entire thing here.
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