My favourite cat in the hat book is...The Cat in the Hat...because...

The Cat in the Hat (1957) is the first book featuring the title character. In it the Cat brings a cheerful, exotic and exuberant form of chaos to a household of two young kids, brother and sister, one rainy day while their mother leaves them unattended. The Cat performs all sorts of wacky tricks—the Cat at one point balances a teacup, some milk, a cake, three books, the Fish, a rake, a toy boat, a toy man, a red fan, and his umbrella while he's on a ball to the chagrin of the fish—to amuse the children, with mixed results. This book allows children to use their imagination and go to a place they can only dream existed. Imagine the cat in the hat was real? Our childhoods would have been so much better.

"We looked! Then we saw him step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in the Hat!" “I know it is wet And the sun is not sunny. But we can have Lots of good fun that is funny!”   “Look at me!   Look at me!   Look at me NOW!   It is fun to have fun   But you have   to know how.”   “'Have no fear, little fish,'   Said the Cat in the Hat.  'These Things are   good Things.'   And he gave them a pat."

  "Then our mother came in
  And she said to us two,
  'Did you have any fun?
  Tell me. What did
  you do?"

  And Sally and I did not
  know what to say.
  Should we tell her
  The things that went on
  there that day?"

  "Well...what would YOU do
  If your mother asked you?"

‘  "Then our mother came in
  And she said to us two,

  'Did you have any fun?
  Tell me. What did
  you do?"

  And Sally and I did not
  know what to say.
  Should we tell her
  The things that went on
  there that day?"

  "Well...what would YOU do
  If your mother asked you?"