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苏斯博士，可以说是二十世纪最受欢迎的儿童图画书作家，在英语世界里，是家喻户晓的人物。他创作的图画书，人物形象鲜明，个性突出，情节夸张荒诞，语言妙趣横生，是半个多世纪以来孩子们的至爱，同时他的书也被教育工作者推荐给家长，作为提高阅读能力的重要读物。
孩子喜欢的古怪精灵的读物，为什么也会受到教师的青昧，被列为学生提高阅读能力的重要读物呢?这与苏斯博士开始创作儿童图画书的背景有关。
二十世纪五十年代，美国教育界反思儿童阅读能力低下的状况，认为一个重要原因就是当时广泛使用的进阶型读物枯燥无味，引不起孩子的兴趣。苏斯博士的BeginnerBooks便应运而生。作为初级阅读资料，这些书力求使用尽可能少的简单词汇，讲述完整的故事。但远远高于过去进阶型读物的，是苏斯博士丰富的想象力、引人入胜的情节和风趣幽默、充满创造力的绘画和语言。
苏斯博士的图画书在讲述有趣故事的同时，更有一个特别的功能，即通过这些故事来使孩子们从兴趣出发轻松地学习英语。从简单的字母，到短语、句子，再到一个个故事，苏斯博士的图画书，亦是一套让孩子们循序渐进掌握英语的优秀读物。例如其中《苏斯博士的ABC》一书，就从英文的二十六个字母入手，将字母和单词配合起来讲解，同时，这些单词又组成了一个个韵味十足的句子，不断重复加深读者对字母的记忆和理解。《一条鱼两条鱼红色的鱼蓝色的鱼》和《在爸爸身上蹦来跳去》也是采取类似的方式进行单词和句子的讲解。《穿袜子的狐狸》则是充满了饶有风趣的绕口令，对诵读者来说是一个充满快乐的挑战。
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看到A，你会想到什么？AuntAnnie’s alligator！安妮姨妈的鳄鱼！安妮姨妈安详的骑在鳄鱼的背上，这就是苏斯博士眼里的A。而Z呢，Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz,这是什么？苏斯博士竟然画了一只奇怪的生物，黄色的大眼睛，粉色和白色相间的皮毛，相当滑稽的造型。这就是苏斯博士的字母朋友，从安妮姨妈的鳄鱼到神奇生物Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz，苏斯博士通过这些天马行空般的东西向小朋友们介绍枯燥的英文字母。让英语从字母开始就变得生动有趣。
From Aunt Annie's alligator to the colourful Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz,Dr. Seuss's delightful book introduces early learners to theletters of the alphabet through an amazing array of crazycreatures. With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zanypictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting youngchildren and helping them learn to read for over fifty years.Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and rankedamong the UK's top ten favourite children's authors, Seuss isfirmly established as a global best-seller, with nearly half abillion books sold worldwide. As the first step in a major rebrandprogramme, HarperCollins is relaunching 17 of Dr. Seuss'sbest-selling books, including such perennial favourites as The Catin the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. In response toconsumer demand, the bright new cover designs incorporate muchneeded guidance on reading levels, with the standard paperbacksdivided into three reading strands - Blue Back Books for parents toshare with young children, Green Back Books for budding readers totackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books for older, more fluentreaders to enjoy. Dr. Seuss's ABC belongs to the Blue Back Bookrange.
作者简介
苏斯，二十世纪最卓越的儿童文学作家之一，一生创作48种精彩绘本，作品被翻译成20多种文字和盲文，全球销量逾2.5亿册，曾获美国图画书最高荣誉凯迪克大奖和普利策特殊贡献奖，两次获奥斯卡金像奖和艾美奖，美国教育部指定的重要阅读辅导读物。
Theodor Seuss Geisel - better known to millions of his fans asDr. Seuss - was born the son of a park superintendent inSpringfield, Massachusetts, in 1904. After studying at DartmouthCollege, New Hampshire, and later at Oxford University in England,he became a magazine humorist and cartoonist, and an advertisingman. He soon turned his many talents to writing children's books,and his first book - And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street- was published in 1937. His greatest claim to fame was the one andonly The Cat in the Hat, published in 1957, the first of asuccessful range of early learning books known as BeginnerBooks.
媒体评论
"Dr. Seuss ignites a child's imagination with his mischievouscharacters and zany verses."
--The Express
