# The Cat in the Hat

**Author:** Dr. Seuss
**Lexile:** 430L
**Grade range:** Grades K–2
**Age range:** 4–8
**First published:** 1957
**Page count:** 61
**Genre:** Picture Book / Beginner Reader
**ISBN-13:** `9780394800011`
**ISBN-10:** `039480001X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-cat-in-the-hat
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

On a rainy day, two children are visited by the mischievous Cat in the Hat, who turns their house upside down before restoring order. Seuss's rhymed-couplet primer was commissioned to replace Dick-and-Jane and became the template for American early-reader pedagogy — widely assigned in kindergarten and first grade.

## Themes

- imagination
- mischief
- responsibility

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix A — K read-aloud](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grade 1 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)

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