I adore this book. It's really nice edition of 13 classic Seuss stories.

Wonderful, succinct collection of Seuss verse. I laughed, I nearly cried and I couldn't help but let go of the repression of my childhood memories for the 300 some odd pages of this collection.

When was the last time you read, "The Lorax?"
Anyone that knows how to read should own this book from from 3, to 30,to 90. Seuss never gets old. If you are too old, and too cool to read Dr. Seuss, go ahead and end your life, because you are incapable of fun and remembering the joys of childhood.

Well, what more can I say? It's Dr. Seuss. The man that either taught us to read, or taught us to LOVE to read.
Growing up, my favorite story of his has always been How The Grinch Stole Christmas. The Jim Carrey movie version is one of my favorite movies of all time and the book is up there as well. I'm quite ashamed to say that I actually haven't read a lot of Seuss's stories before today. So when my mom got me this gorgeous collector's edition for Christmas, I figured it was the best time to read them. How The Grinch Stole Christmas will always be a classic for me, but The Lorax is also amazing because every time I read it or see the movie, I want to run and plant a forest or build a windmill and tear down all the factories! lol And Happy Birthday to You just makes me feel like, "Yeah, I am awesome. Go, me."
But I think my new favorite, at least for this time in my life, has to be Oh, The Places You'll Go. I've never actually read it before, only seen it on posters in every elementary school ever. But now that I'm coming to the crossroads in my life of college and everything that comes after, I feel like there really couldn't be a better time for me to read it. Being a huge film/story nerd, sometimes when I read or hear something really moving I will sometimes see a snap shot of like a scene I could shoot in my own life or in a movie, and it feels so real. Almost like it's a memory(not to sound pretentious). And when I got to page two of Oh, The Places You'll Go!, I got this flash of a moment that I now truly believe will happen in about 5-6 years on the morning of when I move back to NY: me and my mother sitting on the floor of my room-empty of everything except for a few last cardboard moving boxes- reading Oh, The Places You'll Go! to each other as we cry. As we finish, we say our goodbyes and I hop in my moving car, onto my next adventure.
And as I saw it in my mind I just began to cry. And I think if a man could create a feeling and emotion like that, in a story read 25 years after it was written, I think we can all agree that he's an artist. ;D

This book has been on my bookshelf for quite some time. I discovered some new Suess I'd never read to my boys and a few I look forward to reading/giving to my grandson.

This gets A LOT of use at bed time, rest time, car time, fort time...you name the place, it's been dragged there.