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progress in complexity, with Knox periodically complaining about the difficulty of the tongue-twisters. Finally, as Fox gives Knox an extended dissertation on "Tweetle Beetles" who fight each other with paddles while standing in a puddle inside a bottle on a noodle-eating poodle, a fed-up Knox interrupts and pushes him into the bottle, calling it a "tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks". He then thanks an astonished Fox for all the "fun" and takes leave.
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The book begins by introducing Fox and Knox along with some props (a box and a pair of socks). After taking those four rhyming items through several permutations, more items are added (chicks, bricks, blocks, clocks), and so on. As the book progresses, Fox describes each situation with rhymes that
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considered it an "amusing exercise for beginning readers", but noted that the tongue-twisters made little sense when removed from the context of their illustrations.
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and his orchestra. The album starts off with a slow reading of the book, followed by a faster reading.
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noted that it was the 25th-best-selling hardcover children's book of all time, with 2.95M copies sold.
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Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?: Dr. Seuss's Book of Wonderful Noises!
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In 1965, the book was adapted as a record, narrated by
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Dr. Seuss
Children's Literature
Random House
hardcover
paperback
ISBN
978-0-39-490038-4
OCLC
304375
Hop on Pop
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
Children's literature portal
children's book
Dr. Seuss
tongue-twisters
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
The Hoober-Bloob Highway
CBS
television special
Marvin Miller
Marty Gold
Fox in Socks
Kirkus Reviews
All-Time Bestselling Hardcover Children's Books
Publishers Weekly
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