Mitzi Long was a friend of Seuss's, and Audrey Diamond was his second wife.

Dedication: It is the first Beginner Book to have one.

He'll try to get your tongue in trouble.' The first time you read it, don't go fast! This Fox is a tricky fox.

Cunning Like a Fox: The subtitle on the book cover reads: 'This is a book you READ ALOUD to find out just how smart your tongue is.

Circular Reasoning: Luke takes licks in lakes his duck likes, and vice versa.

Sue and Slow Joe Crow make a habit out of sewing weird things to objects and people.

Bim and Ben play with brooms as a hobby.

The Tweetle Beetles spend all their time fighting in bizarre situations.

Luke Luck and his duck spend their time licking lakes.

Fox spends his time spouting tongue-twisters and trying to get Knox to say them.

Cloud Cuckoolander: Many of the characters are just plain nuts:.

Bim and Ben are strange humanoids with catlike ears.

Knox is a strange furry humanoid with doglike ears.

Butt-Monkey: Knox just wants the nonsense to stop but the Fox is having none of it.

Animate Inanimate Object: Some talking bricks feature at the beginning, but unfortunately they get sick.

Alliterative Name: There is a guy named Luke Luck.

Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Fox wears nothing but socks.

The book's climactic Tweedle Beetle sequence was animated for Seuss' The Hoober Bloob Highway television special. Said Fox in Socks leads Knox out of the Box through lots of wordplay knots. Specifically silliness, which, in the form of tongue-twisters and some absurd situations, is the vehicle used to teach children some simple words. Seuss which, while not so well known as The Cat in the Hat or How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, is probably the clearest example of his approach to writing for his target audience. OL261159W Page_number_confidence 77.78 Pages 74 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20200211213310 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 200 Scandate 20200205211258 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog marygrove Scribe3_search_id 31927000556008 Tts_version 3.Can you read that quote above out loud? A bit of a tongue-twister, isn't it? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet.įox in Socks is a 1965 children's book by Dr.

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