a favorite

Horton Hears A Who!
5 stars & 5/10 hearts. This book was amazing. Absolutely FULL of pro-life messages.

“Please don’t harm all my little folks, who
Have as much right to live as us bigger folks do!”

I love how dedicated Horton is to protecting the Whos, finding them again, and insisting on their voices being heard!

“A person’s a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will NOT have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!”

One of Dr. Seuss’s best books, and a message the world NEEDS to hear.

If I Ran the Zoo
3 stars & 3/10 hearts. Seuss’s books of absolute ridiculousness with no moral/message like Scrambled Eggs Super! and On Beyond Zebra! somehow don’t appeal very much to me. I get bored and lose interest halfway through. However, my siblings enjoy having the books read to them, so perhaps I’m just not the right audience. Overall, it was a fun, quick story with some good quotes.

Content: a few euphemisms.

The Sneetches:
5 stars & 5/10 hearts. The theme of The Sneetches is apparent from page one, and it is excellent. Seuss does a great job of showing how cruel, ridiculous, and useless racism is. I did not know until afterwards that this book was particularly targeted at antisemitism (hence the stars, I’m sure). The writing style is lovely and still very humorous. Really, I think this is the best of Seuss’s stories.

I’m quite happy to say
That the Sneetches got really quite smart on that day,
The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches,
And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches.
That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars
And whether they had one, or not, upon thars.

The Zax:
4 stars & 4/10 hearts. super short, but quite fun to read and full of quotable quotes!

Of course the world DIDN'T stand still. The world grew.
In a couple of years, a new highway came through
And they built it right over those two stubborn Zax
And left them there, standing un-budged in their tracks.

Too Many Daves:
5 stars & 5/10 hearts. Oh. My. Heart. This is SO hilarious! I never laughed so hard at anything Seuss wrote. I laughed almost too hard to keep reading, and everyone hearing it laughed too. This is pure comedic gold!

Did I ever tell you how Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons, and she named them all Dave?
Well, she did. And that wasn’t a smart thing to do.

What was I Scared of?
4.5 stars & 5/10 hearts. I was super impressed about this one. What a great way to a) talk about the dangers of letting your imagination run away with you, b) discuss fear of strange things, and c) explain how important it is to actually get to know someone. An excellent little story!

And I began to see
That I was just as strange to them
As they were strange to me!

Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
4 stars & 4/10 hearts. Such a humorous, light, funny before-bed book! My siblings and I all enjoyed it.

They do it each night. And quite often I wonder
How they do this big job without making a blunder.
But that is THEIR problem.
Not yours. And not mine.
The point is: They’re going to bed.
And that’s fine.

Bartholomew & the Oobleck
DNF because it’s magic.

When was about 9 this book had already become, easy. However, Doctor Seuss' rhymes, and elegant word smithing skills, bring back the child in all of us. There is nothing quite look hearing it read to you by a familiar soothing voice. Even reading it out loud brings a sort of childish joy back into your soul.

Classic Seuss fun!

A Hatful of Seuss: Five Favorite Dr. Seuss Stories by Dr. Seuss (1997)

My paternal Grandfather gave this to me as a gift when I was a kid. I like the story of the Sneeches best.

Can Bartholomew Cubbins help the King save the kingdom from the green ooblek?

What would Gerald McGrew do if he ran the zoo?

What will happen when Horton hears a Who?

Can the Sneetches find a way to be friends?

In the County of Keck are yawns catching?

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Here five beloved Dr. Seuss books are brought together, offering readers young and old a delightful glimpse into the imaginative worlds of the delightful storyteller. No changes of words, no deleting of pictures . . . each story here is told exactly as it was when it was first published.

Young readers will enjoy “Bartholomew and the Ooblek” and “If I Ran the Zoo” before searching for Who-ville in “Horton Hears a Who.” Then it’s time for “The Sneetches and other stories,” including several shorter Seuss stories: “The Zax,” “Too Many Daves,” and “What Was I Scared Of?” before settling down with “Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book.” It’s a not-to-be-missed treasury of fun.

Highly recommended.

Fun thick book of 5 long Seuss books. We’ve loved reading part before bedtime. Our first longer stories.

Oh Oobleck!!

Mama, let’s read Oobleck!

Wonderful! Read it to my babysitting kiddies and they loved them! Some of the great stories by the good Dr. that tend to get overlooked. So glad I got to share this with them!

This is a wonderful assortment of Dr. Seuss's tales. The book is a provider of much entertainment.

Headline: 42-year-old reads Dr. Seuss as if for the first time. Perhaps some of these were for the first time. Poetry is OK. Stories are OK. Obviously great for kids and early readers.

Read to me by the best; thanks Sarah!