I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!

by Dr. Seuss

Book Overview

Dr. Seuss's hilarious Beginner Book about a boy who refuses to get out of bed

NOTHING is getting the young hero of this easy-reader out of bed--not an alarm clock, roosters, barking dogs, the police, the news media, or the United States Marines With illustrations by beloved New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson--and a plot that children and adults can relate to--this is a funny fantasy that the whole family can enjoy together...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394892178
• ISBN13: 9780394892177
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

fine children's book that helps them learn so much...

I Am Not Going To Get Up Today (Beginner Books) by Dr. Seuss is a whimsical fantasy tale that should appeal to very young children. As another reviewer notes, young kids are full of energy; they don't truly want to stay in bed and this book won't encourage them to do that, either. However, the story makes a great fantasy and the book is also a solid educational tool for children learning to read. The story is relatively simple; a young boy is tired and he wants to take the day off and lounge in bed. He is rather obstinate; even his mother and a cop can't get him out of bed! Along the way, the young child learns a lot about the English language and reading--and that's great. Children are introduced to names of places including Paris, Massachusetts, Berlin, Alaska, China, Spain and more! This can easily generate a conversation with your child about what foreign (or distant) places are like; and the child can get a good basic understanding that the world is really a very large place with many different cultures. This book also teaches children the sounds that some things make. For example, the book, usually through the use of text that rhymes, mentions how birds "peep;" how an alarm clock "rings;" how a bed can be "warm" and how a pillow can be "deep." Great! I suppose that for some very active children the idea of a child taking a rest in bed could show them an example of the importance of learning to rest. Overall, I Am Not Going To Get Up Today is another fine children's book by the great Dr. Seuss; and I recommend this book heartily for parents to read with their very young children. The book is an excellent educational tool that helps children learn to read and understand words, places and other concepts like "warm" and "deep." Great job, Dr. Seuss!

I Am Not Going To Get Up Today! (Beginner Books(R))

What can I say? Seuss is always great!

This is a MUST HAVE

There's got to be a starting point to reading with your child and this should be the place. All my kids loved this book, it has humor they instantly identify with and are always entertained by. They never get bored with this one.

Book Review

This book uses very good discriptions, it also rymes and the illistrations go along with the the words good. It makes you keep reading and reading because the words are discriptive. I would suggest this book to all kids.

Bed First!

Do you know any children who like to get up early to go to school? Well, we haven't had one yet in our family. So each morning is quite a challenge.I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! is comic relief for those moments. Let me explain. The book begins with this refrain by a small boy with a dog lying under his bed. "Please let me be,Please go away,I am not going to get up today!"In the course of the story, the boy resists the alarm, peeping birds, other kids getting up, his mother bringing in an egg for breakfast, noise of siblings, tickling his feet, shaking his bed, pouring cold water on his head, talking by the neighbors, noise by neighbors, sweets, dogs, roosters, goats, geese, the police, publicity in the newspaper, the Marines, and a television crew.He still wants to "lie here woozy-snoozing."In the end, his mother brings in a policeman and says:"I guess he really means it.So you can have the egg."Have you ever been that tired? I hope not.The book is designed to get lots of great laughs from your child and sympathetic smiles from you as you read the book together. How can it help in the morning? You can do a play based on the book. You can walk in grandly with an egg cup on a tray, and ask whether you should give the egg to the policeman. You can get a tape of a marching band to play. In any event, your fun with this story will turn snoozy mornings into laugh-filled events. And laughter is an excellent antidote to lethargy.I also suggest that you ask your child what the mother should have done. This will be all the clue you need to find out how your child would most like to be awakened.Time to rise and shine!