One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish discussion

Title (italicize): One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Author: Dr. Seuss
Illustrator (if separate from author):
Genre: Fiction
Theme(s): Counting, Colors, Numbers
Opening line/sentence (type directly from text): “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.”
Brief Book Summary (2-3 sentences in your own words): This book is for beginning readers and focuses on rhyming and counting. The plot does not go in a straight line but focuses on fish, a boy and a girl and then a character named Ned.
Professional Recommendation/Review #1 (cut & paste): BfK (Books for Keeps No. 119, November 1999) The zany humour of Dr Seuss with its invented vocabulary and wacky rhymes is almost impossible to read aloud. Rick Mayall captures some of the ludicrousness of One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish but even he has to struggle with the far more inventive The Lorax. In an attempt to make them comprehensible, Rick Mayall adopts a slow delivery which conflicts with the helter-skelter pace of the text. These are two books best left to be enjoyed through print alone. Category: Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant. Rating: *. ....,
Professional Recommendation/Review #2 (cut & paste): Unspecified (Carousel 13, Autumn-Winter 1999)
Dr Seuss's seriously silly rhymes, which are greatly enjoyed by the youngest children, are read on this cassette by Rick Mayall. As long as you are not a stickler for grammar or Americanisms, there's plenty of fun to be had reading about '...a man called Mr Gump. Mr Gump has a seven hump Wump. / So... if you like to go Bump! Bump! / just jump on the hump / of the Wump of Gump! There is however, scope for learning - with counting, the concept of opposites and colours. The illustrated book is included in this good value pack so the child can follow the pictures and see the words. Great for the over threes.
Response to Two Professional Reviews (3-4 sentences in your own words): I couldn’t find any reviews on the CLCD database for the regular book, just the audiobook. However, I can understand how this book may be hard to read aloud to students. I think that despite that though children will enjoy the bright pictures in this book and the silly language that Seuss uses.