Why am I love with The Cat in the Hat? I have been reading it again and again to Morgan, who, at this point, could care less. When it’s nap time, she says, “Read a story?” and I say, “How about the Cat in the Hat?” I kid you not, that little biddy rolls her eyes at me like, “Heffa, you and that freakin’ book?! Pick something else!!”
There is this video on YouTube (where else, right?) of the Cat in the Hat and I kid you not, the Cat’s voice sounds like he just left Paulie Walnuts and Sal at the Bing to go show Sally and her brother how to have some good fun that is funny. (Ayyy, ohhhh, I’m walkin’ here!).
I don’t know what it is. The cadence, the triple meter, is soothing, the pictures are simple and the message is clear. I love how the fish is so prim and proper when expressing his displeasure. “I do not like this said the fish as he lit. I do not like it, not one little bit”.
I find myself trying to read it quickly just to hear how fast I can make that cat make a mess. I like putting the right EM-phass-is on the right syl-LA-ble when the young narrator throws his net down over Thing One and Thing Two. Note to self: Got to find some Thing One and Thing Two shirts for Morgan and Coever.