Pattern for a Thneed

Thneed??? He *must* be pronouncing it wrong!

Higs, Katherine

I *agree*! I've been racking my poor brain, wondering, is it a lithp? (lisp) and then should it be a sneed? Noreen

I think this might sometimes be called a "Magic Scarf" at stores like A.C.Moore, Michael's, etc. (But used as a sock?!)

-- Carey in MA

"madhatress" wrote in news:q3bgf.1413$ snipped-for-privacy@news20.bellglobal.com:

tell DBF's uncle you would be delighted to knit him a thneed (everyone needs a thneed!) but he will have to provide you with the Truffula tuft. a proper thneed can *only* be made of Truffula! :)

lee

Well, I know it's Suess, after the other post telling us so, but gotta say, I never got into Dr. Suess... thought it was beneath me, even as a little kid.... (I was reading at a 2nd year college level in the fourth grade... back THEN

2nd year college was something to be PROUD of, not like the remedial level they're at 'today', lol!) JM2C, Noreen

I must say i am tottaly ignorant about Dr, Zeus books , only saw one once , mirjam

Noreen you TOO read so much and as `soon ` as possible??? when i was a teenager there were not so many Hebrew Teenager suitable books , and i was a Heavy Reader ,,,, thus i read almost every thing ,,,, At 16 i got Rheumatic Fever and was bedridden , thus i asked my mother to go to the public library and bring me books , in the order they stood on the shelves , and i read all the Hebrew and English books they had . In those times Russian Literature was still The Thing here ,,Later when my children grew up i read what they read ,,,,, but not dr Zeus which they never read ,,,Here it was not so known [ only by name] mirjam

You're not alone, there, Mirjam. I always felt the Dr. Seuss books were Demeaning to children... JM2C, Noreen

Yes, Mirjam! First, I was deathly sick a lot in second grade, and spent a lot of time reading in bed. Then, in third grade, there was a contest over summer break, to read a book a week, and write a book report. A book a Week?? Childrens books? Well, heck, I had the 'lists' of ALL the recommended books for my age group read in a week, with 9 weeks of summer break to go! On to the next age group and so on, till I had read and wrote book reports on more than anyone participating in the City of Chicago School districts! My mom still has my award. Hugs, Noreen

Dr Suess was *beneath* you?!?!? Dr Suess was a very intelligent person to come up with such wonderful and entertaining stories! It takes more than people think to rhyme like that... and make up his own language that would be entertaining to all ages. I, for one, have always admired Dr Suess, and still do at my age! His stories will be around for generations to come, thankfully!

Gemini

Dr Suess books are very entertaining to children, Mirjam! Too bad you didn't have the opportunity to read them... or have your children read them. I also think the rhyming theme of those books help children to appreciate poetry and humor! :o)

Gemini

To each their own :D Noreen

"The YARNWRIGHT" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

no, those Dick & Jane books were demeaning to children. Dr. Suess is very intelligent & full of very subtle and powerful messages on ecology, war, etc. the rhyming prose is one of the *best* ways for children to learn reading through listening. it develops many different parts of the brain. i'm sorry you think Dr.Suess is beneath you. i, too, was an early reader, starting before 3 & reading my dad's Master's degree coursework texts when i was 4 & 5. i *loved* the Dr.Suess books & read them to my older brother (who wasn't an early reader). i read them to my 5 years younger brother when he came along & i used them to teach him to read by himself at age 4. i am now reading them (& have been since his birth) to my now 5 year old...who is also starting to read them on his own. lee

Noreen I can understand your "devouring" books - my girls were the same and in third grade in their May break of two weeks they had to write a book and make it look like a real book with notes of the author etc and references to any one who inspired the book etc.

DD #1,Shauna< spent her time reseaching the origin of the piano from Encyclopaedia Britannica. She started from the very beginning up to the present instrument, giving her inspiration as Sister Mary Therese her piano teacher. I still have the book.

-- DD #1 who was just five years of age, and not required to write a book, also did one about her holiday break and illustrated it with pictures from magazines - still have that one too and marvel at her good spelling considering the graduates from high school nowadays.

Both girls a currently writing books - Shauna a text book on Statistics and Colleen a text book on Dressage God Bless Gwen

Gwen Kelly

Gemini, I agree - my girls used to love to have us read it to them when they were very young and since both read encyclopaedias before they even went to school I think the facination of the rhymes sent them searching for more than just prose and fiction God Bless Gwen

I admire Dr. Suess as well. All of my kids loved to read his books and learned much about how to read with them. I think the man's work is brilliant.

BB

Have no Idea who Dick & Jane are ??? You must remember that Dr Seus is a very English /American thing ,,,,,and wasn`t translated into other languages for many years...... We had other Children`s books , about which i can talk. When we came to Usa , my children read what their age group read [ high school and junior high school] . Several years ago i saw one Dr Seus translated into Hebrews , a good translation , but he didn`t catch here at all , thus i don`t think that many more than 2-3 were translated. I used to be a librarian , and was very lucky to work in the Haifa University while it was being built , built the Periodicals departmemt and the Catalogs,,,,, did a lot of shopping as well .... :>:>:>:>:>

used to say i was the luckiest person Buying hundreds of books and never paying for them :>:>:>:> I have the habit stil of picking up new books in shops, and have ideas about what i like or not , My children were Piled with every possible book i could afford..... mirjam

Dick and Jane were the incredibly boring characters in a set of beginning reader's textbooks from the late 1940s and 1950s. The text was limited to sentences that were mostly only three words long: "See Dick run."

I can't imagine anyone being able to translate Dr Seuss books, they depend so much on the sounds of the language and the made-up words. I liked the earlier books more than the later ones and can still quote some of them.

I would think that most of them are untranslatable.

=Tamar