One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Analysis
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
At the book's beginning, Mother Nature is front and center. First, there are the fish, who rule the sea with some crazy variation and improbable physical abilities. We mean, did you see that fish r...
Tone
By glee, we don't mean the hit television show with the mash-ups, charming foreign exchange students, and a whole lot of baby-mama drama. We're talking about the exuberance and joy that oozes from...
Writing Style
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish is classified as a book for beginner readers. As a book that's meant to introduce kids to words, and to get them started on a path to reading for the rest of th...
What's Up With the Title?
On first reading this book, you might assume that someone—one of the book's editors or maybe Seuss himself—got mighty lazy and decided to go ahead and name the book by its first four lines. Sno...
What's Up With the Ending?
At the end of the book, the boy and the girl fall asleep with their pet Zeep, leaving the reader with the following statement: Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Every day, from...
Trivia
Don't ever bet against the Doc. His editor Bennett Cerf once bet him that he could not write a book using the same 50 words. Seuss did, winning $50, and publishing the much beloved Green Eggs and H...