Show me the Honey (Dr. Seuss/Cat in the Hat)

Dr. Seuss/Cat in the Hat

by Tish Rabe, Christopher Moroney (Illustrator)

Where does honey come from? The Cat in the Hat knows that! It comes from bees, and what better way to learn about honey making than to visit inside a hive and see firsthand how it’s done? In this rhymed easy reader based on an episode from the hit PBS Kids TV show The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, the Cat, Sally, Nick, and Things One and Two shrink to bee size and learn how bees communicate via dance, collect nectar and spit it into combs, turn it into honey, and seal the combs with wax.This is a sweet, funny Step into Reading book that kids will gobble up—without realizing they are ingesting an important natural-history lesson!

Genres: Childrens, Science, Picture Books, Animals, Nonfiction, Middle Grade

48 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Tish Rabe is the bestselling author of over 170 books for Sesame Street, Disney, Dr. Seuss, and many more. She is Founder and Content Creator of Tish Rabe Books, LLC, an independent publishing company that partners with nonprofits and businesses to create books that make a positive difference in the lives of children, parents, teachers, and caregivers worldwide.

"Sweet Dreams Ahead Time for Bed" is a gentle, rhyming storybook written in partnership with Pajama Program, a national nonprofit that promotes healthy sleep routines and gives pajamas and books to children facing adversity.

"Days Can Be Sunny for Bunnies and Money", helps children learn how to manage money. It was produced with Clarity 2 Prosperity, a business development company for financial advisors. To learn more, visit tishrabe.com.

Reviews

[Cam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love having my kids read these books to me.

[Anya Gupta · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like in the story when in the end they got the honey which they were looking for in the beginning of the book.

[Mandi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the rhythm of this book! It flows so well 🙂 But it drives the kids crazy that the boy & girl are declared looking like bees but they don’t actually in the picture 🤷‍♀️ They bring it up every time 🤦‍♀️🐝

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a wonderful book, one of our all-time favourites.

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an entertaining and informative book about bees. With a fun, rhyming narrative, classic Dr. Seuss characters, and colorful background scenes of life inside a beehive, it's a good book to read aloud with children. The book explains about bees, how they make honey, and why they do funny little dances. The book has a short narrative and colorful illustrations, so it would certainly be appropriate for younger school-age children.

Overall, I thought this was an entertaining and educational book that reinforces what our girls are learning (or have learned) in school. We enjoyed reading this book together.

[Jillian Cryder · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Cat in the Hat always finds good ways to make "weird" topics fun. The book starts with kids eating breakfast and talking about how they ran out of honey and they cant eat their breakfast without honey so magically The Cat in the Hat swoops in and gets them honey, but not without an adventure first. The kids and the cat dress up as bees and go to a party with some bees and at the party they learn how to make honey. I really like that this book was educational but in a fun way. I didn't feel like it was screaming facts at the readers like some educational children's books do, the author made it into an adventure. I would use this book in my classroom for building reading confidence because the book is a step into reading book at the third level which is reading on your own, I think it would be fun to use this book as learning about honey and bees too. I really like the upbeat and happy tone of this book as well.

[Linda Klinedinst · Rating 5 out of 5]

Show Me The Honey by Tish Rabe - Dr. Seuss - Cat In The Hat Series

I dearly love this book....it is so cute and if you want your children to learn about the Bees and the Honey this is a very good book for them.

This is a Library E Book and I got this through my County Library System and I read it on Overdrive.

I highly recommend this book for anybody that wants to learn about Bees, the Queen Bee, and about Honey.

I give this book 5/5 Stars.

Happy Reading :)

[Tammie Utter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Seuss - bees and honey - what's not to love?!!

An adventure that shows how hard the bees work and how they work as a community. Encourages imagination, too, and respect for the bee community.

[genita smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

will they got to the party but it looked like it wasint a party because i. saw that the y were standing in a bunch of water i know that lirtle easy?qaushdens.
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[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was interesting learned about the bee dance to get honey.

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[Hamza · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this book because they went to the bee house and I feel like going in it

[Leah G · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great short, rhyming, educational book for kids.

[Alexia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute book about honey and bees in the traditional Dr. Seuss whimsy. Found it on my bookshelf from one of my grown sons and decided to read it. Definitely keeping it.

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super cute book

[Lexy · Rating 4 out of 5]

So cute

[Leslie · Rating 3 out of 5]

My 7 year old Aspie-reluctant-reader liked this book. Dr Suess and the little brother and sister experience a day in the life of a bee. They collect nectar, make honey and honey combs, they even meet the queen. It takes about 20 minutes to read and ties in quite nicely with the tv series (The Cat in the Hat Knows Alot About That). We've only recently discovered this wonderful tv show that comes on twice a day here and is great for the young future scientist. Some of the same characters you meet in the book make appearances on the show. For some reason this was very exciting for my son. Kinda like meeting someone you only see in one place somewhere completely different, like seeing your teacher at the grocery store. So this one is great for the 6-9 year olds(ish) who love science.

[Megengelter · Rating 3 out of 5]

A Cat in the Hat book – appealing to Dr. Seuss readers. Similar to the two books above, colorful and appealing illustrations. Text size is about half the size and there are twice as many words on a 2-page spread. Dr. Seuss' rhyming patterns is appealing. I felt this book was definitely a higher reading level and Step 3 seems about right. The line breaks and commas are helpful in developing a rhyming flow to the text. Notice the sample has contractions – is this typical?

Sample text (per 2 page spread):
“We'll fly past the ladybugs, and wave to the birds, who will sing us some songs that don't have any words. We will soar and, what's more, we will dip and we'll dive through a hole in a tree and down into the hive.”

[Rochelle Sondae · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although this book does describe some behavior of bees and how they go about collecting pollen and making honey it really doesn't cross that line over into the non-fiction category as I thought it might. Tish Rabe does make an effort to rhyme in the style of Dr. Seuss which is nice... just not the same. I would have liked to have seen a page or 4 in the back with some actual details about bees and maybe internet links to bee issues instead of an advertisement for a DVD based on Seuss characters.

[Lita · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is about two children that learn how to make honey with the help of the Cat in the Hat. There are a lot of adverbs in this book, so this would be a great resource to teacher about adverbs. There are also a bunch of rhyming words in this book, so it could be used for a lesson on rhyming as well.

[Dawn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of the boys' newest faves. This series of books (The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That are from scripts of the actual PBS show. This one about traveling into a beehive and helping them make honey is particularly entertaining to the boys. The rhyming isn't forced, which is a relief and the rhythmic sounds are nice.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very good "science without being in your face' book. The Cat and the Hat and the two children that modern day children have grown used to from the PBS cartoon does a very good job at explaining and introducing children to bees and how they make honey. Most of the story is written in rhyme which makes it fun to read outloud.

[Niharika · Rating 5 out of 5]

Queen Priscilla Buzzoos is my favorite name from the story. Another funny word I love is "skrinkamadoodle" ....I also learned how the bees make the sweet honey from the nectar from flowers.

The bees make honey by sucking nectar from the flowers and bring it to their hives and spit it into the honey combs that make it dry. Then they cover it, to protect the honey and helps keep it clean.

[Kelly Wickham · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very cute Dr. Seuss spin off that I had never read. I love the way it takes the kids to a bee party and then educates them about the bee hive and the bee dance and the honey production all while staying in rhyme. A fun and educational book about the important work of bees.

[Shannan Hunt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute

This book was perfect for my three year old.
Something I can read aloud to him over and over and he won't get bored.

[Nadja · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cutesy way of introducing your young ones to bee activity and honey production.
What better way to learn than with the Cat in the Hat?!

[Grant Stephens]

This book can be used to teach young children how ‘worker bees’ use team work to make honey. It also shows some intricacies in how bees make honey.

[Pinky · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sally and Nick find out where honey is taken from and think nothing of it.