The Cat in the Hat

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1. chrismathesonJan 2026
   90's Consoles are available on eBay or most video games shops :)

   Turns out what was fun for you at age 5 will be fun for your kids at age 5. Just the same as The Cat In The Hat is still a beloved book.

   I personally have found this to be the absolute winner of a solution.

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2. mixmastamykFeb 2023
   > rival the TV and YT junk

   Can't compete with these, nope. Only way is to limit them a few hours a day or less. The ability to relax and be bored is essential to support the desire to read.

   We did it an hour before bed every night under warm lighting. Loved Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, Grinch, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

   Engelbreit's Mother Goose, Nursery Rhymes set.

   Loved The Police Cloud by Chris Neimann, and Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton.

   We liked The Giving Tree, but be prepared as it shows a dysfunctional relationship. We took it as a "teachable moment."

   Agree with those who say to go to the library for variety.

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3. JuniperMesosJun 2026
   In 2021 the company that holds the rights to Dr. Seuss books, founded by his family after his death, announced that they would stop printing several of his books because they judged them to be racist against nonwhites: https://apnews.com/article/dr-seuss-books-racist-images-d8ed... . This isn't a government ban on the content of the books, but rather the legitimate copyright owner refusing to print them for their own ideological reasons.

   Once the books go out of copyright they will no longer be able to legally prevent anyone else from printing the books, and copyright law doesn't prevent people from legally reselling their already-purchased copies of books. But if you go onto Amazon right now and look at prices, you'll find that a copy of one of the Dr. Seuss books that the rights-holder refuses to print more copies of, such as McElligot's Pool, costs over 100 dollars; whereas a Dr. Seuss book that the rights-holders haven't judged as racist, such as The Cat in the Hat, costs about $5.

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4. pbalcerSep 2025
   Readable code is code that has empathy for the reader and tries to minimize the cognitive load of interpreting it. That's one of the goals of abstraction layers and design patterns.

   Yes, it's all subjective, and depends on the reader's expertise and existing familiarity with the codebase. But arguing that code readability isn't at thing, because it's subjective, is an absurd take. Would you claim that Joyce's Ulysses is equally readable as Seuss's The Cat in the Hat?

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5. bcrosby95Sep 2025
   The trap people fall into is calling The Cat in the Hat unreadable compared to Joyce's Ulysses because The Cat in the Hat they're reading is written in German and all they understand is English.
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6. quuxplusoneApr 2025
   "Double storey a" refers to the lowercase "a" with a sort of bent-over bit at the top, distinct from the handwritten cursive "a". So you can say it relates to "typography," perhaps, but certainly not that it's limited to "computer" typography.

   Early readers — anyone learning the letters for the purpose of reading — will need to recognize the double-storey "a" in order to read books, road signs, or even a smartphone's pop-up keyboard. And certainly to read "The Cat in the Hat" (which is set in Century Schoolbook, according to a quick google).

   Sure, we don't (often?) write it like that in cursive, but we read it that way in almost all written material we encounter in our entire lives. You just don't notice because you're used to it — it's the "natural" way for an "a" to look in print.

   ...Now let's do looptail "g" versus opentail "g"! At least for that one you'll have the smartphone keyboard on the opentail side of the debate (and "The Cat in the Hat" on the correct, looptail side). ;)

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