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 Post subject: Dr. Seuss
PostPosted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:01 am 
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What's your favorite?

My son loves:

Green Eggs and Ham
Sneetches
Yertle the Turtle
Horton Hatches the Egg
Oh, The Places You'll Go
Hop on Pop
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

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The Lorax!

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Do you like Dr. Seuss? Then you'll love Dr. Ma-Seuss.

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The Lorax!

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I've always liked One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

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$úñ_DëV|L wrote:
I've always liked One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

This one is brilliant. I think it might be my favorite. My eldest son likes to distinguish between Dr. Seuss books with lots of made up words (like this one) and those without made up words (like Horton Hatches The Egg).

This one, I think, is called a Yink.
He likes to wink.
He likes to drink.
He likes to drink and drink and drink.
The thing he likes to drink is ink.
The ink he likes to drink is pink.
He likes to wink and drink pink ink.

So if you've got a lot of ink,
Then you should get a yink, I think.


That's from memory. I can do many of them from this book.


The Lorax is superb on so many levels.

Oh, The Places You'll Go is an underappreciated later work. It was a popular gift when I was graduating from high school, as it had just been released the previous year. He was 86 when he wrote it.

We're pretty big fans of Horton Hatches The Egg. One of his earliest books, it's much better than Horton Hears A Who, IMHO. I suspect there is a deeper meaning to this story, but I can't quite figure it out.

And of course, Dr. Seuss's ABC's I have been able to recite from memory since I was 3 years old.

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 Post subject: Re: Dr. Seuss
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We're pretty big fans of Horton Hatches The Egg. One of his earliest books, it's much better than Horton Hears A Who, IMHO. I suspect there is a deeper meaning to this story, but I can't quite figure it out.


If your mother is too lazy to do a good job, the government will take you away and put you in a foster home?

:?:

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punkdavid wrote:
We're pretty big fans of Horton Hatches The Egg. One of his earliest books, it's much better than Horton Hears A Who, IMHO. I suspect there is a deeper meaning to this story, but I can't quite figure it out.


If your mother is too lazy to do a good job, the government will take you away and put you in a foster home?

:?:

I was thinking it might have had something to do with parents who gave up their children during the Depression.

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 Post subject: Re: Dr. Seuss
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My wife has vetoed The Lorax because he calls the Lorax stupid and tells him to shut up. I would have fought back, but the story is waaaay over the head of my 2 1/2 year old. Maybe this one will come back around at age 5.

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 Post subject: Re: Dr. Seuss
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One that seems to be sort of under the radar that I love is the Big Butter Battle Book. It's basically his take on the arms race and nuclear proliferation. Totally hilarious and brilliant.

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I used lines from the Lorax while doing a presentation on environmental hazards

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I used lines from the Lorax while doing a presentation on environmental hazards


Business is business, and business must grow,
Regardless of crummies in tummies, you know.

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 Post subject: Re: Dr. Seuss
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Mecca wrote:
I used lines from the Lorax while doing a presentation on environmental hazards


Business is business, and business must grow,
Regardless of crummies in tummies, you know.


"You're glumping the pond where the Humming-Fish hummed!
No more can they hum, for their gills are all gummed."

"So I'm sending them off. Oh, their future is dreary.
They'll walk on their fins and get woefully weary."

"in search of some water that isn't so smeary.
I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie."

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 Post subject: Re: Dr. Seuss
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Mecca wrote:
I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie."[/i]

That line is only in the movie, not in the book.

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 Post subject: Re: Dr. Seuss
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not dr seuss, but seems like it...my boy loves go dog go

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punkdavid wrote:
Mecca wrote:
I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie."[/i]

That line is only in the movie, not in the book.

WRONG!

it used to be in the book

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yertle the turtle is quite possibly one of the best books ever written on the subject of turtle stacking

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Mecca wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
Mecca wrote:
I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie."[/i]

That line is only in the movie, not in the book.

WRONG!

it used to be in the book

Really? Wow. I thought it was a pretty good line, but I bet there's a story behind that.

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punkdavid wrote:
Mecca wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
Mecca wrote:
I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie."[/i]

That line is only in the movie, not in the book.

WRONG!

it used to be in the book

Really? Wow. I thought it was a pretty good line, but I bet there's a story behind that.

after the clean water act of 1972, Lake Erie started to become clean again and he did it to stop the negative associations lake-side areas suffered from.

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