This Bright and Early Book provides rhymed text and illustrations introducing the many meanings of the word »up« as Seuss and Blake show beginning readers that this is a »Great day for up!« You get the point half way through the book but little kids should be able to hand on longer, especially when they are reading the book for themselves. Besides, by the end of »Great Day for Up« we get to the point where »EVERYONE on Earth is up!« (with one very important and rather ironic exception).
As with all of the Bright and Early Books for Beginning Beginners what you have here is a brief and funny story, where the words are few and easy, there is a catchy rhythm, and the pictures are happy and colorful clues to the text. These are designed for an even lower age group than the Bright and Early Books that followed »The Cat in the Hat,« which was the »Harry Potter« of its day when it came to encouraging even pre-schoolers to discover the delights of reading for themselves. This is not one of the most interesting volumes in the series, but overall these books were a delight.