If so what is your favorite book?
Mine is The Lorax.
2006-09-18 02:32:56 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I really like the Sneetches and Other Stories... The Sneetches are great, The North and South Going Zax are great....and I LOVE What Was I Scared Of about the pair of pale green pants with nobody inside 'em.
2006-09-18 04:05:48 · answer #1 · answered by laney_po 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love Dr. Seuss especially Horton Hears a Who.
This is from Wikipedia about Horton Hears a Who:
The book tells the story of Horton the Elephant who one day, on the fifteenth of May in the Jungle of Nool to be precise, hears a small speck of dust talking to him. It turns out the speck of dust is actually a tiny planet, home to a city called "Who-ville", inhabited by microscopic-sized inhabitants known as Whos.
The Whos ask Horton (who, though he cannot see them, is able to hear them quite well due to his extraordinary hearing) to protect them from harm, to which Horton happily obliges, proclaiming throughout the book that "a person's a person, no matter how small". In doing so he is ridiculed and nearly murdered by the other animals, such as the Wickersham Brothers and the Sour Kangaroo, in the jungle for believing in something that they are unable to see or hear. Horton tells the Whos that they needed to make themselves heard to the other animals, lest they end up as part of "beezlenut stew", which they finally accomplish.
Horton Hears a Who! can be viewed as an introduction to the philosophical idea of microcosm.
"A representation of something on a much smaller scale. Microcosm means 'small world,' and in the thought of the Renaissance, it was applied specifically to human beings, who were considered to be small-scale models of the universe, with all its variety and contradiction."
The precept that even the smallest person's smallest voice can make a difference then crystallizes from this. Ultimately, a hope for anyone's voice to be the straw that broke the camel of status quo's back provides hope for each individual in a society as well as suggesting a degree of personal responsibility in the construction and maintenance of an individual's social, cultural, and political metastructure.
2006-09-18 10:47:17 · answer #2 · answered by happy inside 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why I love Dr. Seuss:
Shakespeare meets Dr. Suess
Green Eggs and Ham’let
I ask to be, or not to be.
That is the question, I ask of me.
This sullied life, it makes me shudder.
My uncle's boffing dear, sweet mother.
Would I, could I take my life?
Could I, should I, end this strife?
Should I jump out of a plane?
Or throw myself before a train?
Should I from a cliff just leap?
Could I put myself to sleep?
Shoot myself, or set myself on fire?
Hang myself with a piano wire?
To shudder off this mortal coil,
Or fall upon my fencing foil?
Slash my wrists while in the bath?
Soak away my angst and wrath?
To sleep, to dream, now there's the rub.
Or drop my hair drier into my tub.
Would all be glad, if I were dead?
Should I kill them all instead?
This line of thought takes consideration -
For I'm the Prince of procrastination.
That's Doc. for the inspiration.
2006-09-18 10:42:00 · answer #3 · answered by William B 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My favorite is Oh, The Places You'll Go. Although I hate to hear it quoted at graduations. My sons favorite is Gerald McBoing Boing. We've read it so much that I can quote the entire book.
2006-09-18 11:23:12 · answer #4 · answered by gabbien 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love him. I really credit Dr. Seuss books with my daughter learning to read early. All of his books are great. I love HORTON HEARS A WHO.
2006-09-18 09:41:55 · answer #5 · answered by nimo22 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the Lorax all the way too . although I like fox in sox, and the butter battle book about the cold war too.. too many good books. my son loved daisy head Maisey and hop on pop he really would hop on pop:)
2006-09-18 11:04:02 · answer #6 · answered by no 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my favorite dr suess poem is "the air is getting slippery"
its incredibly hot in here today
incredibly hot in here
incredibly hot, yes i must say
incredibly hot in here
the air is getting slippery and its not to my surprise
my heart, it beats irregularly and the sweat it fills my eyes
i dont mind what i excrete 'cause im here to make a buck
and those that cannot take the heat can take a flying...
2006-09-18 09:45:17 · answer #7 · answered by slippie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love Dr.Seuss. I read his books to my son all the time. Our fav. book is One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. He absoutly loves it.
2006-09-18 09:36:57 · answer #8 · answered by ☼Earthbound Misfit☼ 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I like "Oh See Can You Say" and "Oh, The Places You'll Go". His sculptures are pretty cool, too.
2006-09-18 12:04:41 · answer #9 · answered by theobromo77 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
DR SUESS ROCKS!! I LOVE SAM I AM!!
2006-09-18 14:30:39 · answer #10 · answered by Dara K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋