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The Eye Book (Bright & Early Books(R))
by Theodore Lesieg

The Eye Book (Bright & Early Books(R))
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Author: Theodore Lesieg
Illustrator: Joe Mathieu
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-09-28
ISBN: 0375800336
Number of pages: 36
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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Book Review: Important Concepts, Beautiful Illustrations and Gentle Humor
Summary: 5 Stars

If you liked Dr. Seuss's The Tooth Book, you will find this book equally rewarding.

In The Eye Book, Dr. Seuss explores the concept of what vision is, who has it, and why it's important. At the same time, he has created a book with an extremely small number of words (almost all of one syllable) and maximum amount of repetition to make memorizing and learning to read the book as simple as possible.

A handsome blue-eyed boy begins,

"Eye

Eyes

My eyes"

He then points to a pink-eyed, friendly-looking rabbit, and says,

"His eyes"

With a picture of the boy winking, the boy says,

"Wink eye"

With a picture of the rabbit, the boy says,

"Pink eye"

Then you move into the concept of what vision is -- seeing and being seen.

"I see him.

And he sees me."

The connection between humans and animals is nicely built from there. This will help your child to understand that we have many things in common with animals. Knowing that can lead to lots of empathic play and developing a more sensitive adult. Be prepared for your child to want a pet rabbit, though.

The book then uses the idea of seeing to add simple words, along with their images in order to help with word decoding. The words introduced include blue, red, bird, bed, sun, moon, fork, knife, spoon, girl, man, boy, horse, tin can, holes, poles, trees, clocks, bees, rocks, flies, ants, pink, underpants, rings, strings, rain, pie, dogs, and airplanes.

"Hooray for eyes!"

You can also use this book to establish an interest in flash cards. After reading the book, you can use some flash cards that combine a picture with the letters. Based on my experience with children learning to read, you can accelerate progress quite a lot of you can develop such a diving board for being interested in flash cards for vocabulary. Try to find some with colorful illustrations!

The illustrations emphasize large heads and enormous eyes of the sort that I associate with the Walt Disney cartoon drawings of Alice in Wonderland. Everything seems simple, young, and childlike which will make the book more accessible to your child.

After you both have the book memorized, I suggest that you play games while riding in the car to identify animals and the color eyes they have. This will help make your child more observant, which is helpful for reading development as well.

See the potential all around you . . . and be aware that you are being looked at too! What can be seen about you?

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