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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:16 AM
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What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book and why?
My was/is "Horton Hears a Hoo" I just loved the concept of this entire world no bigger than a ball of dust. Probably started my interest in science fiction, which I read like crazy as a kid.
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Not Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:18 AM
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1. "Oh, the places you will go"
I love the encouraging themes that it gives kids.
And, I underrstand it has become a very popular gift for the HS and College grad.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:19 AM
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6. That also gets my vote
I got it for either college or grad school - a much appreciated gift - might be the only one I still remember and can find.
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fluffernutter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 12:51 PM
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30. this is my vote too if i have to pick just one.
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:18 AM
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2. Yertle the Turtle
A great tale about ambition and hubris.

And of course there's the turtle named Mac at the bottom of the stack.
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PrestoChango Donating Member (75 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:18 AM
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3. Fox in Socks
Just so much FUN to read!
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:19 AM
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4. the star beLLied sneetches
i aLways wanted to be the cooL kids

honorabLe mention: the foot book
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 11:28 AM
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14. Yup, the Sneetches top my list :)
Edited on Fri Dec-10-04 11:30 AM by ET Awful
As far as audio books released on records back when I was a kid, Bartholomew and the Oobleck was probably the best. :)

On edit: Green Eggs and Ham deserves a mention for teaching me how to read when I was just a wee lad. :) I still don't like that Sam I Am :)
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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:19 AM
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5. One Fish, Two Fish.
It started an 8 year (and continuing) book reading journey with my daughter. Only now she sits next to dad and reads her own books.
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Cuban_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:19 AM
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7. "Horton Hears a Who"
:)
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sadinred Donating Member (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 12:17 PM
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25. Horton is The Best!!!! My favorite story EVER! Thank God for
smart and sensitive elephants!!!!!
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 12:29 PM
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27. Horton rocks!
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SCDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:20 AM
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8. The Lorax
The first environmentalist book I ever read!
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cheezus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 11:41 AM
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19. I know it's about the trees, but I swear a "thneed" is oil
everyone needs it for everything and can't stop using it
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Aiptasia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:20 AM
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9. Green eggs and ham
as read by Jessie Jackson...

Although i've always been disturbed by Seussian architecture (houses on the end of a tree branch).
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 11:31 AM
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15. I am Sam.
Sam I am.

That Sam I Am, that Sam I Am, I do not like that Sam I Am.

But do you like green eggs and ham?

I do not like them Sam I Am :)
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Yuugal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 12:40 PM
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28. Green eggs and gub'ment cheese!
Loved that skit.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:24 AM
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10. Sox on Fox
This one is guaranteed to have your tongue numb by the time you finish reading it to your child.
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:25 AM
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11. "Fox in socks, our game is done, sir.
Thank you for a lot of fun, sir!"
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 11:33 AM
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17. When beetles fight these battles
in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...

...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.
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NuckinFutz Donating Member (852 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:25 AM
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12. I love Fox in Sox...
just because it is so much fun to read. Those wonderful tongue twisters still help me train my tongue.

A close second would be the Butter Battle Book...excellent parody of the cold war arms race.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 11:32 AM
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16. Me too.
Luke Luck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. :thumbsup:
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Debbi801 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:30 AM
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13. Too many to count--Lorax, Sneeches, and Put Me In The Zoo
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 11:34 AM
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18. For the Fox in Socks fans. . . .
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/Fox-In-Socks.txt
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 11:42 AM
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20. The Sneetches - I love the critique of bigotry
It's a great lesson for kids to learn early.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 12:14 PM
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24. Same Here
Edited on Fri Dec-10-04 12:15 PM by Crisco
But not just bigotry. The superior attitude of any clique that wants to separate itself out from the masses so they'll have someone to look down on.

When DU first moved to a star system to show who the donors were, I confess I bristled. We have stars on ours ...
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 11:43 AM
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21. Lorax gets my vote
for being the most over-the top, pro-environment, anti-greed kids book I've seen. Love it.
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furrylitldevil Donating Member (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 11:44 AM
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22. Butter Battle Book
It took so much curage (In my opinion) to write this book during the social climate at the time.
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Fleurs du Mal Donating Member (511 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 11:55 AM
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23. There's a Wocket in my Pocket
Because it was the Seuss book I read most often as a kid.
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obreaslan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 12:29 PM
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26. Which books you ask....
Which books you ask?

I like them all

So many books,

too close to call

Books about Horton and Yurtle my friend.

I read then all from begining to end.

So which, you ask, stands above the rest?

To me they are the same,

They are all the best!!!!


:hi: I guess I feel inspired today :shrug:
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Feathered Fish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 12:45 PM
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29. I had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
Psychedelic fun for kids! That and the Dr. Suess Sleep Book.
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