Favourite Dr Seuss

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Mine is 'The Sneetches'. Not widely available (you can get it in a collection of Dr Seuss on Amazon). Has great morals about social class, exclusion, wanting to be someone else/ desire to fit in, and many others - as well as being hilarious...like Green Eggs too

I can't remember the name of the one I am thinking about. It has a strong environmental message - if you chop down all the trees, then the wildlife will disappear and the planet will become grey. It was written in about 1970, so was well ahead of it's time.

Oh, the places you'll go

Fab for anyone trying something new. Also the Zax - especially for stubborn toddlers.

The one with the trees being cut down was (I think) The Lorax
I liked it because of the word 'thneed'.
Also liked Green Eggs, which was the first one I ever read.

ds is nearly 18 months and loves 'Green Eggs' - he will bring it to me to read, saying 'ham, ham'

help me out here - the one that list all the brothers called Dave who should've had names like Marvin O Gravel Ballon Face???

Yes, The Lorax. I find it hard to believe this:

"The Lorax is arguably Seuss' most controversial work, having been banned in some schools and libraries for its political content"

Dr Seuss banned!

My first introduction to Dr Seuss was the beginners dictionary in French - ABC with every phrae in two languages. I did not come across Dr Seuss again for 35 years!

Foxtrot, it's called, um, Too Many Daves

ah yes, its all coming back to me now (courtesy of a peep at amazon!) Mrs McCave and her twenty three sons and she named them all Dave.

Oh yes, the Dave's are brill, only found it after I'd named my ds unfortunately - and the Zax is great too, about 2 very stubborn creatures who meet and won't budge so they are stuck for eternity. Those 3 are all in the collection I bought my mum along with the star bellied sneetches who had stars on their bellies and the ordinary sneetches who had 'none upon thars'.

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love Are you my mother?

can't stand reading Fox in Socks

ds and dd love Dr Seuss

One Fish Two Fish is a fave of theirs

The Lorax, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Green Eggs and Ham, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle and of course Fox in Socks

btw, if you like the books, there are 2 great cds (1 called 'The Cat in the Hat and other stories' read by Adrian Edmondson and the other 'Dr Seuss Collection' read by Rik Mayall) which are really fab. For at least a year or so, those CDs were my children's favourites.

Never had Dr Seuss as a child so have enjoyed discoering the books with DS. 'Oh the places you'll go' is a wonderful story but our current favourite has to be 'There's a Wocket in my Pocket'

DS loves reading green eggs and ham to mummy and his little sister...we laugh out loud with him to...my fave !!

yes my 11 mth gets green eggs every night. hoping he will have it memorised by 2. i nearly have it off by heart. thx for cd recommendations, will get them for bday or xmas.

forgot about One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

just about to read it to the dds!

"Too Many Daves" is such a fab story. But even better is -
"I saw a pair of pale green pants with nobody inside 'em".

"Well I got out, I got out fast, as fast as I could go sir,
I was not scared but pants like that I did not care for, no Sir!"

Love Dr Seuss. The Grinch is fab at Christmas - we also love the Sleep Book, the Lorax, The Sneetches, Horton Hatches an Egg...oh there are so many.

The empty pants one used to scare ds1 - I had to skip it

The Lorax has a very sound environmental message. We like all of them, though. Not sure if we've seen The Sneetches, however.

oh I had forgotten the empty pants! I love that one!

Empty pants is great but so eerie.
I love Yertle the Turtle for its good old fashioned socialist message.

I put my arm around their waist
And sat right down beside them.
I calmed them down.
Poor empty pants
With nobody inside them

(snigger)