![]() You know those cookbooks that feature recipes that hide vegetables places children won’t think to look? Then after years of eating hidden peas, those children suddenly realize, “Hey, peas aren’t that bad!” Hop on Pop is analogous to that, only it hides the learning process in tasty poetic morsels. The rhyme, illustrations, and tone of the poems are insanely fun to read or to have read to you. But all that nasty learning is hidden beneath a surface layer of whacky, zany short poems. It teaches words, phonics, language acquisition, and even a bit of spelling just for kicks. The book is designed around the learning process from start to finish. Hop on Pop is a parental hustler in this regard. Why memorize the state capitals when you can be, you know, not memorizing them? Memorization, pop quizzes, and boring books drag the process of learning into the nether-realms of uninteresting. It’s just that the process of learning is kind of a pain. ![]() They think learning facts and knowing how to do things are both pretty cool, which is evident in how much they want to show off both those skills. ![]() It’s not that kids don’t care about learning. ![]()
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