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There's a Wocket in my Pocket: Dr. Seuss's Book of Ridiculous Rhymes
A beloved Bright and Early Board Book by Dr. Seuss, now in a larger trim size!
This super-simple, super-sturdy board book of rollicking rhymes is now available in a bigger trim size! An abridged version of the classic Bright and Early Book There's a Wocket in my Pocket! by Dr. Seuss, it's perfect for babies and toddlers!
This super-simple, super-sturdy board book of rollicking rhymes is now available in a bigger trim size! An abridged version of the classic Bright and Early Book There's a Wocket in my Pocket! by Dr. Seuss, it's perfect for babies and toddlers!
24 pages, Board Book
First published January 1, 1974
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964 books18.2k followersAlso wrote as Theodore Seuss Geisel, see https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads for Flit. This association lasted 17 years, gained him national exposure, and coined the catchphrase "Quick, Henry, the Flit!"
In 1936 on the way to a vacation in Europe, listening to the rhythm of the ship's engines, he came up with And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which was then promptly rejected by the first 43 publishers he showed it to. Eventually in 1937 a friend published the book for him, and it went on to at least moderate success.
During World War II, Geisel joined the army and was sent to Hollywood. Captain Geisel would write for Frank Capra's Signal Corps Unit (for which he won the Legion of Merit) and do documentaries (he won Oscar's for Hitler Lives and Design for Death). He also created a cartoon called Gerald McBoing-Boing which also won him an Oscar.
In May of 1954, Life published a report concerning illiteracy among school children. The report said, among other things, that children were having trouble to read because their books were boring. This inspired Geisel's publisher, and prompted him to send Geisel a list of 400 words he felt were important, asked him to cut the list to 250 words (the publishers idea of how many words at one time a first grader could absorb), and write a book. Nine months later, Geisel, using 220 of the words given to him published The Cat in the Hat , which went on to instant success.
In 1960 Bennett Cerf bet Geisel $50 that he couldn't write an entire book using only fifty words. The result was Green Eggs and Ham . Cerf never paid the $50 from the bet.
Helen Palmer Geisel died in 1967. Theodor Geisel married Audrey Stone Diamond in 1968. Theodor Seuss Geisel died 24 September 1991.
Also worked under the pen name: Theo Le Sieg
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads for Flit. This association lasted 17 years, gained him national exposure, and coined the catchphrase "Quick, Henry, the Flit!"
In 1936 on the way to a vacation in Europe, listening to the rhythm of the ship's engines, he came up with And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which was then promptly rejected by the first 43 publishers he showed it to. Eventually in 1937 a friend published the book for him, and it went on to at least moderate success.
During World War II, Geisel joined the army and was sent to Hollywood. Captain Geisel would write for Frank Capra's Signal Corps Unit (for which he won the Legion of Merit) and do documentaries (he won Oscar's for Hitler Lives and Design for Death). He also created a cartoon called Gerald McBoing-Boing which also won him an Oscar.
In May of 1954, Life published a report concerning illiteracy among school children. The report said, among other things, that children were having trouble to read because their books were boring. This inspired Geisel's publisher, and prompted him to send Geisel a list of 400 words he felt were important, asked him to cut the list to 250 words (the publishers idea of how many words at one time a first grader could absorb), and write a book. Nine months later, Geisel, using 220 of the words given to him published The Cat in the Hat , which went on to instant success.
In 1960 Bennett Cerf bet Geisel $50 that he couldn't write an entire book using only fifty words. The result was Green Eggs and Ham . Cerf never paid the $50 from the bet.
Helen Palmer Geisel died in 1967. Theodor Geisel married Audrey Stone Diamond in 1968. Theodor Seuss Geisel died 24 September 1991.
Also worked under the pen name: Theo Le Sieg
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June 19, 2019
Say what?!? A Dr. Seuss classic that uses pretend words to help the young reader see rhyming patterns. Neo undertook the task of reading this one to me and dove right in, talking about wockets found throughout the house of this childhood narrator. Some of these creatures are welcome guests, while others can stay away, even if they help the rhyming process. Neo pushed through and showed how he can tie the ‘created’ word with the actual rhymed noun and push passed the silliness. While he did crack a smile, he also made sure I knew that he was serious about reading to me. He recommends it to young readers, but not before bed, as it could be a little too silly and create laughing fits.
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October 27, 2022When counting my many blessings, I’d be remiss to exclude the good fortune to encounter Dr. Seuss at a critical stage in my imaginative development. Through his simple yet bewitching poetry, and still more by the power of his psychedelic imagery, the good doctor taught my four-year-old self just what a mind-expanding experience books can be. For that, I’ll always be grateful.
Almost five decades later, There’s a Wocket In My Pocket seems to be the Dr. Seuss title I recall best. The reason, I suspect, is its delicious suggestion of a fantastical reality lurking just below the surface of the mundane. Somehow, its huge cast of Waskets, Wosets, Zlocks, Ninks, Zamps, Yottles, Zowers, Yots, Quimneys, and so many more, are both as bizarre as anything you could imagine, and as familiar the people you meet every day. I doubt anyone but Dr. Seuss could have concocted such a potent blend of the humdrum and the absurd.
This book also contains some of Dr. Seuss’s best artwork. “The Vug under the rug,” for example, gives me shivers to this this day. On the visual level, Wocket’s only rival for my affection, if it has one, is Green Eggs and Ham.
That Dr. Seuss has remained so popular for so long, across such a wide swathe of planet Earth, helps me retain some dregs of hope for the future of humanity. I’m grateful for that, too.
Almost five decades later, There’s a Wocket In My Pocket seems to be the Dr. Seuss title I recall best. The reason, I suspect, is its delicious suggestion of a fantastical reality lurking just below the surface of the mundane. Somehow, its huge cast of Waskets, Wosets, Zlocks, Ninks, Zamps, Yottles, Zowers, Yots, Quimneys, and so many more, are both as bizarre as anything you could imagine, and as familiar the people you meet every day. I doubt anyone but Dr. Seuss could have concocted such a potent blend of the humdrum and the absurd.
This book also contains some of Dr. Seuss’s best artwork. “The Vug under the rug,” for example, gives me shivers to this this day. On the visual level, Wocket’s only rival for my affection, if it has one, is Green Eggs and Ham.
That Dr. Seuss has remained so popular for so long, across such a wide swathe of planet Earth, helps me retain some dregs of hope for the future of humanity. I’m grateful for that, too.
October 30, 2018
"Did you ever have the feeling there’s a WASKET in your BASKET?
Or a NUREAU in your BUREAU?
Or a WOSET in your CLOSET?
Sometimes I feel quite CERTAIN there’s a JERTAIN in the CURTAIN"
Another amazing book by Dr. Seuss.
A bit scary, a bit funny, a bit ridiculous,
BUT very clever and with great lyrics and illustrations.
For the brave little readers 🎃
Or a NUREAU in your BUREAU?
Or a WOSET in your CLOSET?
Sometimes I feel quite CERTAIN there’s a JERTAIN in the CURTAIN"
Another amazing book by Dr. Seuss.
A bit scary, a bit funny, a bit ridiculous,
BUT very clever and with great lyrics and illustrations.
For the brave little readers 🎃
March 9, 2017
We love this Seuss book, too. I am honestly relieved there is NOT a nook gase in my book case!
February 10, 2019
“There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!” is truly a brilliant book from the creative mind of Dr. Seuss and it is about how a young boy tells the audience about the strange yet fun-loving creatures that live in a young boy’s house. “There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!” is definitely one of the greatest books about rhyming ever written!
Dr. Seuss has done a splendid job at both writing and illustrating this book. Dr. Seuss illustrations are truly great and creative as he illustrates the boy with a red outfit and spiky brown hair, which makes him a truly unique character in the book. Also, the images of the creatures themselves are creative, especially of the images of the nupboards in the cupboards looking furry and yellow and have cotton ball shaped heads. Dr. Seuss’ story is truly creative as the names that the boy gives to each creature is truly inventive as the names rhyme with various furniture that the creatures associate with such as the yeps on the steps and the vug under the rug.
“There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!” is a brilliant book that children will easily love for many years. I would recommend this book to children ages four and up since the image of the vug under the rug might scare smaller children.
Review is also on: Rabbit Ears Book Blog
August 23, 2011
Warning: despite the title, this book has very little to say about wockets. If you purchased this book hoping to gain insight into the ecology and habitat of the wocket, you will be disappointed.
August 27, 2007
sometimes i feel like there's a zamp in the lamp
and im also quite certain there's a jertain in the curtain
whoa
and im also quite certain there's a jertain in the curtain
whoa
June 13, 2017
The BEST Dr. Seuss book! LOVE it!
January 31, 2016
Nonsense Rhymes
18 November 2013
I notice that some people deeply analyse the functionality of the book in how well it would work to help children to read and to understand the English language, and there are others that simply go on about how much they loved this book when they were a kid (and have probably not read it since then). Then there is me, who will read the book and then make comments about it in the same way that I made comments about Mister Dog: The Dog Who Belonged to Himself and The Three Bears. Mind you, I'm not going to be making any outrageous comments about this book other than the fact that while I think that it is stupid I still feel the urge to give it a high rating.
This is what you would call a nonsense book – not in the sense of Alice in Wonderland nonsense but nonsense in the sense that this book is stupid. Basically it has a kid running around his house pointing out all of the weird and wonderful creatures that happen to rhyme with the item of furniture that then live on or in. The pictures are also quite silly as well, but as I said something is forcing me to give this book a high rating and I really do not know why.
Hey, I liked this book as a kid, and I notice that I tend to prefer the Dr Seuss books to the Little Golden Books (and I have said more than enough on that already). The rhyme and meter are exceptional, though it is not hard to create a rhyme when you are basically making up all of the words that you are rhyming. Oh, who am I to complain – Dr Seuss is a very famous and much loved children's author and as such it doesn't matter how stupid his books are, he still made money off of them.
18 November 2013
I notice that some people deeply analyse the functionality of the book in how well it would work to help children to read and to understand the English language, and there are others that simply go on about how much they loved this book when they were a kid (and have probably not read it since then). Then there is me, who will read the book and then make comments about it in the same way that I made comments about Mister Dog: The Dog Who Belonged to Himself and The Three Bears. Mind you, I'm not going to be making any outrageous comments about this book other than the fact that while I think that it is stupid I still feel the urge to give it a high rating.
This is what you would call a nonsense book – not in the sense of Alice in Wonderland nonsense but nonsense in the sense that this book is stupid. Basically it has a kid running around his house pointing out all of the weird and wonderful creatures that happen to rhyme with the item of furniture that then live on or in. The pictures are also quite silly as well, but as I said something is forcing me to give this book a high rating and I really do not know why.
Hey, I liked this book as a kid, and I notice that I tend to prefer the Dr Seuss books to the Little Golden Books (and I have said more than enough on that already). The rhyme and meter are exceptional, though it is not hard to create a rhyme when you are basically making up all of the words that you are rhyming. Oh, who am I to complain – Dr Seuss is a very famous and much loved children's author and as such it doesn't matter how stupid his books are, he still made money off of them.
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October 30, 2023Inspector Clouseau used to task Cato with keeping the police Inspector's wits sharp through frequent, unexpected surprise attacks whenever Clouseau came home. But sometimes Clouseau was in no mood for any attack, nevertheless Cato continues to obey the order stubbornly.
So am I, I'm usually very pious, but this time - I can't help but wonder - why the fuck the truck ran over the duck ?! That's the Duck- Who- Has- Bad- Luck, for sure.
So am I, I'm usually very pious, but this time - I can't help but wonder - why the fuck the truck ran over the duck ?! That's the Duck- Who- Has- Bad- Luck, for sure.
October 16, 2016
and that Jertain in the curtain better start paying his rent or he’ll get thrown down to the cellar with the Gellars! Another wonderful play on words and sounds that my kid adores.
July 5, 2013
I'm completely unfamiliar with the original There's A Wocket in My Pocket! so I don't know how this differs, sad to say, but as it's quite the silly book and so much fun to read, I wouldn't mind getting the longer version too.
It begins: "Did you ever have the feeling there's a ZAMP in the LAMP?"
"Or a NINK in the SINK?" and so on.
For each everyday household item or piece of furniture, Seuss made up a silly rhyme. There's the WOSET in the CLOSET and the BOFA on the SOFA, the GEELING on the CEILING and the NOOTH GRUSH on the TOOTHBRUSH. To be funny, my almost-two-year-old son started saying "No" to the opening questions (quoted above), mostly because the first time he did it we laughed it was so funny, so of course now he says it even more! Whoops.
But it's not just questions, it's the boy describing all the strange creatures he finds around the house, which ones he likes and which he doesn't (which ones are nice and which are not). I have no idea if the kids, who are still so young, actually think these are real "things" that you can find around the house, but either way they're fascinated and the rhymes seem to really entertain them. Plus, it's a lot of fun to read so I don't mind reading this one over and over!
It begins: "Did you ever have the feeling there's a ZAMP in the LAMP?"
"Or a NINK in the SINK?" and so on.
For each everyday household item or piece of furniture, Seuss made up a silly rhyme. There's the WOSET in the CLOSET and the BOFA on the SOFA, the GEELING on the CEILING and the NOOTH GRUSH on the TOOTHBRUSH. To be funny, my almost-two-year-old son started saying "No" to the opening questions (quoted above), mostly because the first time he did it we laughed it was so funny, so of course now he says it even more! Whoops.
But it's not just questions, it's the boy describing all the strange creatures he finds around the house, which ones he likes and which he doesn't (which ones are nice and which are not). I have no idea if the kids, who are still so young, actually think these are real "things" that you can find around the house, but either way they're fascinated and the rhymes seem to really entertain them. Plus, it's a lot of fun to read so I don't mind reading this one over and over!
November 8, 2021
A book of rhymes, odd creatures and imagination.
What can I say but Dr. Seuss rocks?
What can I say but Dr. Seuss rocks?
July 15, 2022
#Daarsngrakinmysak & #Odiedinkewatjykandink – Dr Seuss
#Protea
Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991) is, as Dr Seuss, een van die bekendste en mees geliefde kinderboekskrywers ooit. Meer as 60 kinderboeke uit sy pen en ook deur hom geïllustreer, is in 30 tale beskikbaar en meer as 600 miljoen eksemplare is wêreldwyd verkoop. ‘There’s a Wocket in my Pocket’ (1974) en ‘’Oh, the Things you can think!’ (1975) verskyn nou vir die eerste maal ook in Afrikaans as ‘Daar’s ‘n grak in my sak!’ en ‘O, die dinge wat jy kan dink!’ Hierdie splinternuwe 2022-uitgawes van dié tydlose verhale se Afrikaanse vertaling is deur die bekende Jaco Jacobs gedoen en die boeke is versamelstukke, visueel pragtig verpak in groot formaat hardeband-uitgawes met die klassieke volkleur illustrasies waarmee so baie van ons grootgeword het – perfek vir ‘n volgende generasie jong lesers.
In ‘Daar’s ‘n grak in my sak’ word die jong leser uitgedaag om nuutskeppings te ontdek vir denkbeeldige voorwerpe wat in bekende ruimtes voorkom, byvoorbeeld ‘n glipperjantjie in die snippermandjie; ‘n jasjak in die wasbak en jappe op die trappe.
‘Dink jy ook soms daar’s
’n graai in jou laai of ‘n
flerefas in jou klerekas?’
In ‘O, die dinke wat jy kan dink’ is daar weereens ‘n uitdaging aan die leser: gebruik jou verbeelding om aan allerhande vreemde dinge te dink, soos aan ‘n flof wat verby marsjeer, of kaboene met groot, bont handskoene; bablortse wat vlieg, of hoe lank ‘n snert se stert is.
‘Dink links en dink regs,
dink heen en dink weer.
O, die DINKE wat jy kan
dink, as jy net wil probeer!’
Hierdie pragtig boeke hoort op elke kind se boekrak en is ewe gepas vir jong self lesers en voorlees vir die kleintjies. Dr Seuss se snaakse stories, dolste diere en raarste rympies is leespret uit die boonste rakke en die lees daarvan was vir my ‘n wonderlike, nostalgiese terugreis na my eie kinderdae.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#uitdieperdsebek
Protea Boekhuis
#Protea
Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991) is, as Dr Seuss, een van die bekendste en mees geliefde kinderboekskrywers ooit. Meer as 60 kinderboeke uit sy pen en ook deur hom geïllustreer, is in 30 tale beskikbaar en meer as 600 miljoen eksemplare is wêreldwyd verkoop. ‘There’s a Wocket in my Pocket’ (1974) en ‘’Oh, the Things you can think!’ (1975) verskyn nou vir die eerste maal ook in Afrikaans as ‘Daar’s ‘n grak in my sak!’ en ‘O, die dinge wat jy kan dink!’ Hierdie splinternuwe 2022-uitgawes van dié tydlose verhale se Afrikaanse vertaling is deur die bekende Jaco Jacobs gedoen en die boeke is versamelstukke, visueel pragtig verpak in groot formaat hardeband-uitgawes met die klassieke volkleur illustrasies waarmee so baie van ons grootgeword het – perfek vir ‘n volgende generasie jong lesers.
In ‘Daar’s ‘n grak in my sak’ word die jong leser uitgedaag om nuutskeppings te ontdek vir denkbeeldige voorwerpe wat in bekende ruimtes voorkom, byvoorbeeld ‘n glipperjantjie in die snippermandjie; ‘n jasjak in die wasbak en jappe op die trappe.
‘Dink jy ook soms daar’s
’n graai in jou laai of ‘n
flerefas in jou klerekas?’
In ‘O, die dinke wat jy kan dink’ is daar weereens ‘n uitdaging aan die leser: gebruik jou verbeelding om aan allerhande vreemde dinge te dink, soos aan ‘n flof wat verby marsjeer, of kaboene met groot, bont handskoene; bablortse wat vlieg, of hoe lank ‘n snert se stert is.
‘Dink links en dink regs,
dink heen en dink weer.
O, die DINKE wat jy kan
dink, as jy net wil probeer!’
Hierdie pragtig boeke hoort op elke kind se boekrak en is ewe gepas vir jong self lesers en voorlees vir die kleintjies. Dr Seuss se snaakse stories, dolste diere en raarste rympies is leespret uit die boonste rakke en die lees daarvan was vir my ‘n wonderlike, nostalgiese terugreis na my eie kinderdae.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#uitdieperdsebek
Protea Boekhuis
February 14, 2015
I liked the rhymes they were so funny!
January 1, 2023
Yeah. Pretty good. Would recommend to my frinds
October 26, 2016
Ok, I think I'm being a little mean to this book. I'd like to give it four stars, it being a Dr. Seuss book and all, but... I can't.
Cat in the Hat and the Lorax were good. Still a ramble of nonsense, but good.
This, however... Was just too much.
So, it's about a kid who lives in this house full of weird monster like things, and the whole story goes like: There's a wocket in my pocket and a nookbrush on my toothbrush and a dozet in my closet and a lish in my dish and a...
Though, I have to say, he's really gifted at giving his works a musical tone.
Cat in the Hat and the Lorax were good. Still a ramble of nonsense, but good.
This, however... Was just too much.
So, it's about a kid who lives in this house full of weird monster like things, and the whole story goes like: There's a wocket in my pocket and a nookbrush on my toothbrush and a dozet in my closet and a lish in my dish and a...
Though, I have to say, he's really gifted at giving his works a musical tone.
August 28, 2021
2 stars & 2/10 hearts. My siblings and I were actually rather disappointed by this one. It really was just a list of crazy creatures in this boy’s house—but it never really talked about the creatures, like Seuss usually does in his books. It was very short and not really funny at all...
April 4, 2007
Well my nephew loves it, so good enough for me! Like other Dr Seuss books, wonderful to read aloud.
March 7, 2012
Yet another fun and hilarious story from the mind of Dr. Seuss.
February 3, 2016
Okay so technically the six-year-old read this to me (SO PROUD) but I supervised and thus am counting it anyway.
January 27, 2020
This one used to scare me :o
September 25, 2024
Isabel read this to me before bed. It was magical. I felt as though Seuss wrote this about our magical home
April 12, 2025
I sure know I don't want a Wocket in my pocket!
March 5, 2022
I have read this in another edition but this board book is really fun with its (obviously) thick pages as they seem to match the ridiculous rhymes that are within its covers.
I always pass Dr Seuss books on to my daughter - in her forties I should add! - and this will go the same way so she can enjoy things such as the zamp in the lamp, the nink in the sink, the yeps on the steps and other such fascinations.
The cellar for instance has a variety of rhymes, for in there are tellar, the nellar, the dellar, the bellar, the wellar and the zellar and I feel sure there could be a few more ... the gellar, the fellar, the yellar ... oh, never mind, we could go on for a while!
Following through the alphabet, you can imagine that when he goes to bed and falls asleep he has a zillow on his ....
Great fun, well done Dr Seuss.
I always pass Dr Seuss books on to my daughter - in her forties I should add! - and this will go the same way so she can enjoy things such as the zamp in the lamp, the nink in the sink, the yeps on the steps and other such fascinations.
The cellar for instance has a variety of rhymes, for in there are tellar, the nellar, the dellar, the bellar, the wellar and the zellar and I feel sure there could be a few more ... the gellar, the fellar, the yellar ... oh, never mind, we could go on for a while!
Following through the alphabet, you can imagine that when he goes to bed and falls asleep he has a zillow on his ....
Great fun, well done Dr Seuss.
February 5, 2024
Just a classic
September 25, 2024
I read this to abby Moore and emily reutter in order to have sweet dreams.
December 14, 2024
Phenomenal
January 5, 2024
Fire. Very thought provoking. Had a head ache after reading however, that’s why it’s at 4 stars.
June 28, 2007
i have read it and also read it many times to my sister -- she loves this book
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