Singing Along With Dr. Seuss' Top Cat

In the '70s, Theodor Seuss Geisel (who will always be known simply as Dr. Seuss) helped adapt his funny tales of "The Cat in the Hat" to television.

Now, CBS Video has repackaged Seuss with lyrical songs, releasing "Dr. Seuss Sing-Along Classics." The four-video set includes "The Hoober-Bloob Highway," "The Lorax" and "Green Eggs and Ham and Other Stories."

Offering five to eight songs per half hour, the videos are "upbeat, very funny and offer a very different kind of music," says Mindy Pickard of CBS-Fox Video. "You get to see the lyrics at the bottom of the screen and it can help learn to read, if the kids are in that stage. Adults enjoy the playfulness of the language."

The "bouncing ball" that accompanies the lyrics in each video becomes a green egg or a hat or a tree in the sing-alongs.

Seuss' stories, Pickard says , convey "lessons for every age, and they work despite the changes in society - they're the basic things in life, the basic morals.

"Dr. Seuss was way ahead of his time. They really stand up to time and are hip."

The "Dr. Seuss Sing-Along Classics" (CBS Video, $10) are for ages 2 to 8.

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