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Uniqe book you'll grow to love FAST

2006-07-13
Basic premise is that a young man wakes up one day, and things are "wacky" (i.e. upside down, like shoes on the ceiling.) Then for the next 13 pages there is roughly 1 extra new wacky thing per page (culminating in 12, and then I think 20 wacky things on the last 2 pages.) Kids have a great time trying to figure out what's wrong.

This is kind of a silly book and i didn't think much of it when i read it the first time. but it GROWS ON YOU and the alliteration in the first 8-10 pages is really great, making the words easy to memorize so I found myself saying the story to my kids in the car, etc. - without the book in front of me. Eventually my 2-years old grew to love it and they DEMANDED that we read the book every night and say the words to me and they loved trying to find _all_ the wacky things in each picture of the book.

Wacky Wednesday

2006-07-06
Great first book for those learning to read. Kept my son sitting still long enough to finish - he wanted to keep looking for all of the wacky things in the pictures. Another great Dr. Seuss staple!

This is my 6-year-old's favorite book

2006-06-20
My kids love this book. They love looking for the wacky things on each page and laugh and laugh as we are reading it. It's not a book to read when you are in a hurry though because some of the pages have a lot of wacky things to find. This is a fun book.

My favorite book as a child!

2006-03-24
This was my absolute favorite book growing up - we had a whole collection of Dr Seuss books, along with fairy tales, nursery rhymes, Leo Leonni - and Wacky Wednesday was my favorite. As an adult looking back, I believe this book - above all others - tuned into both my creative side and my analytical/detailed/detective side. My poor parents who hoped for a doctor - I graduated with a degree in English and cite Dr Suess as my main influence. I'm very happy to be have found this book again + buy it for my toddler today, who is also creative and analytical. Yes, you'll find more wacky things than said to be there, but this carries the book further out of the realm of your typical neat little story, and encourages people + kids to use their brains to always be looking further.

Beginning readers have fun finding wacky things

2004-04-08
Clearly Theodore Geisel used the name Dr. Seuss for all of his books where he did both the story and the art while he saved Theo. LeSieg for those where he only did the story and let somebody else do the art. In the case of "Wacky Wednesday" that would be George Booth. My working hypothesis is that when the story is essentially grounded in the real world and does not go spinning off into the wild imaginative realm of Dr. Seuss, then somebody else gets the honors. This makes sense because even when Dr. Seuss draws regular kids they do not look like regular kids any more than the Cat in the Hat looks like a regular cat.

"Wacky Wednesday" is actually a counting book, but it takes you a while to notice that because when it begins with a shoe on the wall that should not be there is is clear that young readers are supposed to spot all the wacky things in each picture. But then we notice that whereas there were only three or four wacky things to be found in each picture now there are five, six and eventually twenty wacky things to discover before Wacky Wednesday is over and done with (although I think there are more than twenty in that final picture, depending on how many times you count the suns).

But counting is just the added educational benefit, because primarily "Wacky Wednesday" is for kids who love to play "What's wrong with this picture?" The funny mistakes are fairly simple, but kids will enjoy finding them in these pictures where as more and more wacky things show up nobody seems to notice. Besides, the whole trick here is to get beginning readers to read a book all by themselves, which is the point of these Beginner Books.

All Time Favorite 2008-06-30
Wacky Wednesday
By Dr. Seuss

This book has been one of my family's all time favorites. When my children were young, they asked me to read it over and over, while they tried to spot all the wacky things. When they learned to read, they read this book again and again.

Whenever anything out of the ordinary happens in our family, we still say, "It must be Wacky Wednesday".

When my son became a father, this is the first book he bought for his son.

Children will love solving the mystery that is called "Wacky Wednesday".

Jill Ammon Vanderwood
Author: Through the Rug
Through The Rug: Follow That Dog (Through the Rug)

Love it! 2007-12-27
So much fun,interactive, gets the kids talking about the book. They love it and as a former teacher I love it as well!

Wacky Wednesday 2007-10-11
What a great book! I look forward to sharing it with my grandchildren for Christmas.

What's wrong with this picture 2007-07-14
Another simple Seuss book that explores concepts of numbers, and encourages children to look at finer detail. The pictures are simple so that things wrong with the picture are easily found, each rhyme gives messages to the child about what they should be looking for, how many items etc.
Amusing.

Not my favourite, as an adult, but my pre-schooler (4 year old) loves it 2007-02-15
I find this book disappointing, my 4 year old daughter loves it. The premise is that a girl wakes up and finds that things are strange in the world. There are lots of things in each picture to discover - shoes on the ceiling, missing legs, and especially strange prams and babys being pushed around.

There is definitely excitement in discovery. Some things are American and will be difficult for non-American children to know - Pictures labelled Washington which are other people for instance. But for the most part everything is easy to discover. Good early learning stuff, spelling etc - but mostly it is visual and there are excellent visual jokes which is why my children love it (candy cane legs, a worm chasing a bird etc)

I don't really enjoy the book greatly, I just don't like the illustrations a great deal. I find them a bit too child like, however it is nice sitting with the kids while they figure out what is wrong with the picture. There are other great books which do this too and maybe even do it better, however, clearly not from my child's point of view! She enjoys it.