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The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories – Dr Seuss by Oceanhouse Media (universal) is a delightful collection of little-known tales by Dr Seuss. Little imaginations will be delighted with more nonsensical Seussish characters to love and entertaining stories with which to sharpen their reading skills.
The app contains seven imagination-inspiring stories originally published in magazines in the 1950s: The Bippolo Seed, The Strange Shirt Spot, Steak for Supper, Tadd and Todd, The Rabbit, the Bear, and the Zinniga-Zanniga, Gustav the Goldfish and The Great Henry McBride. Each story is chock full of Dr Seuss genius and inventive use of words. Dr Seuss lovers, young and old alike, will enjoy experiencing these lost tales for the first time in this content-rich app.
Those familiar with Oceanhouse’s well-establishes Seuss series will know that each story offers up three modes of play: read to myself, read to me and autoplay. If a child chooses to read the story to himself, he has the option to tap on a word or a picture if he’s stumped on pronunciation. The “Read to Me” option is a pleasant one – each of the four narrator’s voices is pleasant and suits the story’s mood.
Because these are the lost stories, the illustrated portion seems a bit unfinished. The same picture will often stay on the screen for the equivalent of several Seuss-sized pages of text. For this reason, these stories seem a bit more suited to a slightly older audience of children. Very young children who tend to be picture-happy may find themselves a bit bored by the lack of humorous characters but the tales themselves are sure to captivate.
If The Cat in the Hat is starting to wear out his welcome and your children are learning to enjoy the actual content of stories this compilation will be a fun change and a wonderful option for this week’s bedtime stories.
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Love Dr Seuss’ books. My kids grew up with them. Would like to have this for our digital library.
Would love this for my 3 & 5 year old. Dr. Seuss books are fantastic.
My daughter loves Dr Seuss Books a lot. Please kindly pick me in.
My son would love this!
Dr. Seuss has always been a favorite in this house. I would love to share this digital book of stories with the family. =)
from tots to tweens and in betweens we love Seuss!!
We really, really want ths one. My kids love Dr Suess and have a large collection of (paper) Dr Seuss books. I’m really excited to get a chance to share these “lost” stories with them
We LOVE Dr. Seuss books, and would be thrilled to have this special collection
Would love to get this for my kids!
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LOVE this!!
My son loves reading Dr. Seuss. He’d love this app!
My daughters’ have all of the Dr. Seuss books. Can’t wait to add this to the mix.
My son loves the rhythmic patter of Dr. Seuss, and he was diagnosed on the Autism spectrum when he was 3. Since then, he has used Dr. Seuss in all forms (books, DVDs, videos, apps) to learn to talk, and then begin to learn to read. Can’t wait to add this to the mix!
I love Dr. Seuss Books. I grew up on them and would love to share them with my son.
Count me in!
Love the timeless classics.
Me and my kids have always loved Dr. Suess books. Would really love these
My daughter loves all the Dr. Seuss books we’ve gotten on our iPod Touch through OceanMedia! Wocket in My Pocket is our favorite with Cat in the Hat as a close second. I can’t wait to share these lost Seuss treasures with her. We would really love to read these stories! Awesome stuff… Thanks Random House and Ocean Media for making it possible for everyone to enjoy these lost classics.
I grew up reading Dr. Seuss books. From them I gained a sense of whimsy, and a foundation in rhythm. When I became a mom, I read Dr. Seuss to my kids too. I was thrilled to see his books available on the iPad — because now, I don’t have to skip bedtime stories whenever I’m tired from a long day at work. I just hold my son and have the book read to us both. Thank you Random House, thank you Ocean Media, oh and yes, thank you, Steve Jobs.
We have several other Seuss books from Oceanhouse Media. Would love to have this one as well!
This looks wonderful!
This would be great to win! We have several of the Dr. Seuss apps and love them!
HOPE TO WIN!