Oh Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today?: All About Weather (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library)
Oh Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today?: All About Weather (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library) book cover

Oh Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today?: All About Weather (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library)

Hardcover – Picture Book, May 25, 2004

Price
$6.89
Format
Hardcover
Pages
48
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0375822766
Dimensions
6.81 x 0.35 x 9.38 inches
Weight
7.2 ounces

Description

“The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library shows young readers that books can be entertaining and educational at the same time. This is a wonderful series!”–Barbara Kiefer, Ph.D., Charlotte S. Huck Professor of Children’s Literature, Ohio State University From the Inside Flap The Cat and company travel by hot air balloon up and into various weather phenomena including rain, snow, thunder, tornadoes, and (yikes!) even hurricanes! Along the way they learn about thermometers, anemometers, wind vanes, cloud formations, humidity, fog, smog, weather folklore, and how to stay safe in lightning. Written and illustrated in Seussian style, this a great addition to the Cat in the Hat?s Learning Library! The Cat and company travel by hot air balloon up and into various weather phenomena including rain, snow, thunder, tornadoes, and (yikes!) even hurricanes! Along the way they learn about thermometers, anemometers, wind vanes, cloud formations, humidity, fog, smog, weather folklore, and how to stay safe in lightning. Written and illustrated in Seussian style, this a great addition to the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library! "Tish Rabe ("Robby") is the bestselling author of over 170 books for children including 19 books in the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library series. She enjoys doing both in person School Author Visits and Virtual Visits via internet technology which reach schools across the U.S.A. and around the world! Trained as a professional singer she has been named "The Singing Author" by her teacher fans because she SINGS to the students during her presentations. Tish is a proud mom, stepmom and grandmother and divides her time between New York City and Connecticut. To learn more visit her web site at tishrabe.com." Read more

Features & Highlights

  • The Cat and company travel by hot air balloon up and into various weather phenomena including rain, snow, thunder, tornadoes, and (yikes!) even hurricanes! Along the way they learn about thermometers, anemometers, wind vanes, cloud formations, humidity, fog, smog, weather folklore, and how to stay safe in lightning. Written and illustrated in Seussian style, this a great addition to the Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library!

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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TV Meteorologist Approved

I'm a Meteorologist at a television station. For Read Across America Day, I was asked to read a Dr. Seuss book for a group of elementary school children. While there are plenty of classic options, I found this book and decided to give it a chance. This is probably one of the best $5 investments I've made in my career.

In my business, we do a ton of school talks for kids. While I can talk about the science of weather with older students, there's only so much I can do with very young kids. This book does a good job explaining weather information while also being engaging. I received a ton of good feedback and plan to use it a bunch in the future. After posting to social media about it, I've had multiple other friends in the business tell me they've also ordered this book.

One caveat, meteorology is filled with big words in general. While I think the book does a good job putting the terms on a child's level, a 2 year old may not appreciate it.
55 people found this helpful
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Excellent intro to weather concepts

I think this is one of the best of the books in Cat in the Hat's Learning Library. In this book, the rhymes are crisp and interesting. Some of the concepts introduced/covered include: meteorologists, weather maps, clouds, evaporation, condensation, snow, rain, thunder, lightning, tornadoes, and climatology. This book covers a lot in the simple and effective Cat in the Hat style.
30 people found this helpful
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Educational, Rhyming Fun

This book is a great way to introduce your kids to some basic weather info and langauge. I would say it is for 3 1/2 and up -- nice rhyming with a famliar character.
10 people found this helpful
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Wondeful Book

I bought this for one of my grand daughters for her 4th birthday. It reads like the Dr Seuss books I remember reading to my sons when they were young. The illustrations are also very good. The book is written at a level that will both entertain and teach a younger child (I think maybe 3.5 to perhaps 6 years old). The science was good though not detailed (what started this was a question from my granddaughter about a weather item and I quickly realized that not only was my answer boring but way over her head. This book had excellent (and well deserved) reviews and better answering her questions.
I highly recommend this book.
9 people found this helpful
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"mommy are those cumulonimbus clouds"

Fun way to teach kids about the weather around them. While the original cat in the hat books are just sillyness, this learning series is fun and informative. We have 4 of them so far and I have also bought them as gifts. My 4yr old walks around asking "mommy are those cumulonimbus clouds"
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It has a lot of really good information in it

Very well written. I wish I found this when my grandkids were younger. It has a lot of really good information in it. I would start reading it to your kids early around age 3, and continue up til they can read it themselves. I would recommend from age 3 to age seven. If an older child can read it to a younger child, then they will get some benefit from the book without thinking is a little kids book.

The reason for starting them early is before they have a fear of the weather. My daughter lost two horses in an thunder and lightning storm two years ago as both were struck at the same time by a bolt of lightning. We now have a couple of grandkids with a tremendious fear of bad weather.
This book explains things on a kids level that helps kids to understand weather. Kids cannot control the weather,but this will help them to better understand what weather
7 people found this helpful
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Oh say can you say, Dr. Seuss weather book

This was a fun twist of a book to learning about weather. Dr. Seuss can make any topic fun for kids, happy I found this to get for my classroom. Every one of my 2nd grade students enjoyed it and wanted to look through it again on their own after I read it to them one day.
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Great first science book

This series probably counts as my toddler's first real science books, which is saying a lot for a very young person. This book is a hit, along with the one on butterflies. Recommended.
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Super fun and educational

My three-year-old loved this book on first read, and continually asks for it. It's led to a lot of other voyages of discovery, including us building our own anemometer (out of ping-pong balls). Don't let the Dr. Seuss-ness deceive you -- yes, the book uses those characters, but they aren't the main goal. They help learn good science/engineering concepts.
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Good

Good book but WAAAAAY above a 3 year old's head :). I have about 15 of these type of books and most of them are great even starting at 2 1/2 year old but my 3 year old had a hard time getting this. I'll just have to put it in the shelf for another year maybe.
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