And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

A boy is told to tell his father everything he sees and usually exaggerates. One day of the way home he makes an elaborate story to tell him, but once he gets home he can't tell his father the story because he will know it's not true. This is a good story for young readers because of the rhyming

Show More

and simple wording and is also good to use to teach about honesty and also imagination.

Show Less

This is a great book to read and imagine with kids. You can't imagine what they see on their way to school!

This book by Dr. Suess is a great book that keeps a person's interest. It would especially keep a child's interest. This book starts out with a little boy named Marco who is going down to Mulberry Street. His Dad tells him to always keep his eyes open because you never know what you may see. Marco

Show More

gets an idea as he is going to school. He is going to make up a story that he can tell his dad when he gets back home. He starts out seeing a horse and a wagon but by the end of the book, he has added many things to his story. However, when he gets home his dad asked him what he saw and he just says, "Nothing but a plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street." I guess that goes to show that he didn't want to lie to his dad. This book could serve as an example for that lesson. This book would be a good read aloud for younger children.

Show Less

This is a story about a little boy named Marco. Every day when Marco goes to school, his dad tells him to keep his eyes open and observe everything he sees while going to and from school. When Marco gets home, his dad asks him what he saw that day. Marco's stories are always very extravegant that

Show More

his dad finds them hard to believe. One day, Marco is going to school and on his way he is trying to think up a story to tell his dad. He thinks up such a grand and detailed story that by the time he gets home he does not know where to begin to tell his dad. Instead of sharing his ellaborate stroy he tells him what he really saw that day, a horse and buggy.

Show Less

Marco wants a story to tell his dad that he observed walking to school, but he can never find anything exciting enough. He decides to start with a horse and a wagon that he really did see and make it more exciting by fabricating it. In the end, he decides not to tell the story to his dad.

This is a great book for testing imagination. Watching one simple change in imagination turn into a giant imaginative experience. This is great for rhyming words and can also be used to teach a lesson about telling the truth. Children need to study imagination, and this book can help them create

Show More

their own imaginative experiences.

Show Less

This book is about a little boy Marco, who has an amazing imagination that he uses to stretch the truth. This is a great rhyming book and a fun read aloud. It can also be a lesson to children about being truthful.

In this book a young man sees a horse and a carriage, but he wants to create a fantastic story to tell his father. He keeps thinking of tall tales that he could say to make the story more interesting,but in the end he just tells the plain truth.
I think this is a great book for teachers who might

Show More

have students who always "one up" their friends. I think its also great for the students who always like to tell tall tales.
Children sit in a circle and throw a ball each person adding on to create a tall tale. Also, children could write their own tall tale, the teacher could introduce the subject and the children can finish it in their own words and share.

Show Less

This book is about a little boy who was on his way to school and on the way back. He saw a horse and cart and and used his mind to think of what all it could be.

This is a classic Seuss book - strange, wild, rhyming. Marco is obliged to tell his father what he saw every day. But all he's seen today is a horse and wagon. (Ah, timeshift. If I saw a horse and wagon on the street it really WOULD be worth talking about!) So he changes a detail or two, and in a

Show More

one-person version of telephone goes dashing up the stairs to tell his dad all about the BIG BAND and PLANES and ELEPHANTS he saw.

Hilarious :)

I will note that there's a mention of a "Chinese man who eats with sticks". While I don't think that line would make it into any book printed nowadays, I don't think it's actually racist, though if you're concerned you should read this book before you buy it.

Show Less

It is a cute rhythmical story of a boy named Marco who is known for his observant eye. When walking home from school, he tends to notice almost everything. I like the story because it shows how a typical child’s imagination works. The illustrations in the book were colorful and exciting. It would

Show More

be a nice short read aloud for young children.

Show Less

A captivating read for young children...as imaginative as a story can be, this is truly Dr. Seuss at his best.

Marco sees all sorts of crazy things on Mulberry Street. Join the fun and see what crazy thing he will see next!

This is one of my favorite Dr. Seuss stories. I have read others that are just rhyming and pictures but this one had a good story and good descriptive and imaginative things.

Great read aloud for first graders.

This is a creative rhyming book by Dr. Seuss that tells the story of a boy with a great imagination. Each day the boy tells his dad about what he saw on the way home from school. One day, while walking on Mulberry Street, the boy saw a horse and wagon but decided that simply was interesting enough

Show More

of a story. He begins to think of dozens of ways that he could change the ordinary horse and wagon into the best story anyone had ever heard. His imagination runs wild and by the time he gets home his story has turned into something quite unbelievable. When his dad asked him what he'd seen that day, the boy just blushed and said, "Nothing but a plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street.

Show Less

While Marco is walking home he imagines a story, he sees a horse drawn wagon on Mulberry St. That wasn't exciting so the horse turned into a zebra and a wagon into a chariot. But the zebra was too small so the reindeer was a better choice then the chariot became a sled skidding down Mulberry St.

Show More

But that isn't as grand as an elephant pulling a brass band pulling a trailer with a man. With all of this there must've a police escort, of course. But when Marco gets home it turns back into a horse pulling a man in a wagon.

Show Less

Review: the story of a child's imagination and the story he plans to tell his father when he gets home of all he sees on his walk, in the end though he decides to just tell the truth at least that day

Personal: This has never been a favorite of my children for family reading time. It feels to me a

Show More

little wordy at times but done in true Seuss style.

Classroom Extension: 1. Have the students draw a picture of something they wish they could see during a walk Seuss style. 2 Have the students then write a story describing their picture.

Show Less

This book is about a boy who makes up a story about what he saw on Mulberry Street. The boy's father wants to know the boy's story but the boy's story has to much information to tell. This book teaches children about how to make up a story about what they saw on a street.

This is my favorite of all of the books by Dr. Suess. It starts off simply with a father's typical admonishment to his child...tell me what you see on the way to school. Unfortunately, all Marco sees is a plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street. So he decides to build on this event, and the book

Show More

takes off from there with the story growing more and more involved. It provides a great opportunity to talk to children about the difference between our imaginations and honesty.

Show Less

Cute story of a boy whose dad told him to keep his eyes open on the way home from school so that he could tell all that he saw. He uses his imagination, but in the end decides to tell the truth. A good story to teach writers how to build their stories and also good to teach morals. I would use this

Show More

book to teach poetry and words that rhyme.

Show Less

Marco walks home from school along Mulberry Street and tries to think of something interesting to tell his dad about the sights he sees. But all he sees is a plain horse and wagon and that'll never do, so he must invent something better!

This was a Dr. Seuss title that I missed when I was a kid, but

Show More

I'm sorry to say I feel like I didn't miss much as I wasn't thrilled with this title reading it as an adult. The fun imaginative parts are just okay, and then Marco's disappointment at the end of having to tell his dad he saw nothing exciting just seems like a letdown. The book was originally written in the 1930s so I have to take it as a product of its time, but I nonetheless chafed at some of the wildly "other" depictions of minorities and the dismissive attitude toward girls (to wit, "Say--anyone could think of that, Jack or Fred or Joe or Nat--Say, even Jane could think of that.). I read this book the first time with my 3-year-old niece and even she didn't seem hugely interested in it. She listened to it attentively but didn't ask to come back to again like some of the other books we shared that day. All in all, I might recommend this for die-hard Dr. Seuss fans, but that's about all.

Show Less

"And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," is a good book by Dr. Seuss about a typical situation about a boy and his relationship with his father. His father advises him in the book, "Your eyesight's much too keen. Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales." The boy

Show More

replies "Now what can I say When I get home today?" He goes on to view on the craziest scenes with magicians, sorcerers,sleds, elephants, and giraffe's.

Show Less

The rhyming in this book is charming, as is often the case in Dr. Seuss books. Marco's got a good imagination! In a way, I wish his dad had played into that.