Dear Dr Seuss

[LeftyMom]

I am growing very sick of your books, charming though they are. I'm actually wondering if never wanting to hear Hop on Pop again is a good justification for getting my tubes tied.

Thanks for the Lorax though.
-LM

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. My son loved

Inside, Outside, Upside Down, The "B" Book, and Fox in Socks to the point that he is tweleve now and I STILL remember them.

When tweedle beetle battle in a puddle in a bottle and the bottle's on a poodle, the poodle's eating noodles, that's a Tweedle beetle bottle puddle poodle noodle battle. (Or something like that!)

[LeftyMom]

3. I hid Fox in Socks.

My son loves Hop on Pop though. Somehow he wound up with two copies so one is a car book for him to read while I drive. At least then I can turn the radio on with the sound weighted toward the front speakers so it doesn't bother him and I don't have to listen to "Pat. Sat. Pat sat on Hat." over and over and over again.

[Not_Giving_Up]

6. I couldn't hide that one

It was one of my favorites when I was little. Now I understand why no one wanted to read it to me, though!

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. you should check out his collection of pre and during WW2 cartoons

they are AMAZING. He was a fantastic editorial cartoonist.

[tuvor]

5. Here's a link.

Not totally sure I share your opinion, though.

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/

[Deja Q]

18. Wow - one is captioned "Liberators of America".

[electron_blue]

4. No Pat No, don't sit on that

I once read 8 Seuss Books in a row to my daughter and couldn't talk or think straight for hours.

I have sooooo been there!

[otherlander]

7. Huzzah for the Lorax!

and all that was left....was a small pile of rocks, with one word...
UNLESS. Whoa....that's deep. :hippie: I wonder what it would be like to talk to Dr. Seuss, because whenever you think of him, it's all silly stuff, the way he wrote for kids. But as a person, when he wasn't talking like that, I wonder what it would have been like to have a conversation with him.

[Aristus]

14. UNLESS...

someone like YOU cares a whole awful ot,
Nothing is going to get better,
It's not.





Incredible.

[otherlander]

19. I know. It sounds like

so much more than a line from a kid's book.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear LeftyMom!

Allow me to give you some perspective, if I may....

My girls are now in their thirties...but I remember as though it were yesterday reading endless books over and over and over.......

And wondering if they would EVER outgrow said books?

He will.......

And if you have another child, s/he may prefer some other stories.....




:loveya: :hug:

[LeftyMom]

11. At least he does like other things

He got some vegan advocacy comics from a friend on another forum and he loves them. He takes them to his fathers' and reads them to him. :D He loves my Calvin and Hobbes books too, which cracks me up because he looks just like Calvin. Oh, and he loves National Geographic, both the kid's magazine and the adult one. He was looking at a map of the North Slope in Alaska and he looked at me and said "mama, there are a lot of animals here!" which makes him smarter than congressional Republicans already. :D

[giant_robot]

9. Would you like them in a boat?

Would you like them with a goat? :evilgrin:

[XemaSab]

15. I do not like green eggs and ham

I do not like them, Sam I am.

[Robeson]

10. Dear LeftyMom, you said that with aplomb. But what I think is neat...

...is you don't partake of the great Roast Beast...;-)

[Brigid]

12. I do not like green eggs and ham . . .

I do not like them, Sam-I-Am. :evilgrin:

[reyd reid reed]

13. I sat by the lake

I looked at the sky,
And as I looked
A fly went by.

A fly went by
He said, "Oh, Dear!"
He said, "I must get out of here!"





Hey, it could've been worse...could've been:

"Left foot, left foot, left foot, right,
Feet in the morning, feet at night..."


Oh...wait...it just was, wasn't it.

Ooops.

:evilgrin:

[billyskank]

16. But you can't beat a pair of pale green pants

with nobody inside 'em! :bounce:

:hi:

[Jade Fox]

21. Love that one.....

I think Seuss reached his pinnacle with those green pants.

[billyskank]

28. I think I had it in the same book as The Sneetches

Man did those morans get fleeced. :crazy:

[tigereye]

30. that is one of my favorites

loved reading that one, and many others to my kid.

[Squeech]

17. When I was a kid

I loved the weird stories, which I notice are missing from this thread. Horton Hears a Who. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. Scrambled Eggs Super. Yertle the Turtle.

Yeah, they'll get tiresome too eventually, as will any text, but think how much easier it will be to explain George Bush to a child that's read Yertle.

[Catshrink]

20. One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish

This one has a little car
This one has a little star,
My what a lot of fish there are!

Some fish are very glad,
And some fish are very sad,
And some fish are very very bad
Why are they glad, sad, and bad?
I do not know, go ask your Dad.

<snip -- mercifully>

Look what we found in the park in the dark
We will take him home, we will call him Clark.
He will live at our house, he will grow and grow
Will our Mother like this? We don't know.


(That's from memory -- how sad does that make me?)

[eyesroll]

22. Now wait a minute, Mr. Socks Fox!

When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle. THIS is what they call… A tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottles paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir!

Fox in socks, our game us done, sir. Thank you for a lot of fun, sir.

[meow2u3]

23. Repukes haven't changed a bit since my mom was a kid

[meow2u3]

24. Phony optimism: a WWII cartoon

Rich repunks haven't changed a bit. They ignored the facts then; they're ignoring them now.

[meow2u3]

25. Yet another Dr. Seuss blast from the past

[Robb]

26. Ever read "The Rat in the Vat?"

True comedy gold. Excerpt:

So off to the brewery we followed the cat
Off to the beer that was made in a vat.
Then, Joe Bob said, "Stop. For we should not be here.
Our wives would be angry if we drank this beer.
We should not be here while our wives are out."
"We should not be here!" we heard poor Joe Bob shout.

:rofl:

[Sugar Smack]

27. Also, thanks for the Butter Battle Book.

:thumbsup:

[hfojvt]

31. Yertel the turtle

I think they are all pretty didactic, except Cat in the Hat, which is trying to teach counting. I still remember the TV cartoon, although I cannot find the book about two guys walking in opposite directions until they come face to face and they each refuse to move for the other. Highways and stores are built around them and still they stand there, eye to eye, nose to nose. It has gone down the memory hole, just like Uncle Remus.
Also, sadly, the book makes no mention whatsoever of the moss covered three handled family gradenza, so I am not sure how to spell it.

[hfojvt]

29. did you hear?

"The literary world is abuzz about Mabel Syrup's sequel to 'Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie'"
"We have to buy it! It's called 'Commander Coriander Salamander and 'er singlehander bellylander.'

to which Calvin's dad says to himself
"Architects should be forced to live in the buildings they design, and children's book authors should be forced to read their sotries aloud every single night of their rotten lives."


Then there was the argument between Calvin and his dad about reading Hamster Huey for the ten millionth time. After Calvin loudly insists "I WANT HAMSTER HUEY" they are both sitting in bed wide eyed
Calvin says: Boy, the story was sure different this time.
Hobbes says: I wonder if the townfolk will ever find Hamster Huey's head?