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Summary: Unless someone like you....
Review: The Lorax is one of Dr Seuss' best books, and like all good children's books, is for adults as well as children. In other hands, a book for children about environmental destruction could be boring and dull, but in the sure hands of Dr Seuss it retains all the magic of other Seuss books, while imparting a serious message that sticks in your mind. This is a great book if you want to teach your children about the need for environemental awareness, because, in the words of the Lorax "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not!"
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Summary: Dr. Seuss messages
Review: Every Dr. Seuss book has a very important theme. The main theme of this book is to respect the environment. The whole thing with the truffalu trees.
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Summary: Amazing eyeopener of the perils of our Environment
Review: When I was a child, this was one of my favorite stories. This tale includes great illustration and wonderful rhymes, as we of course expect of a Suess book. But its not just the fun rhyming and silly names that make this book great. Suess deals with the downfall of the environment caused by forest desertization and the ensuing pollution. The Lorax is the best explanation we can give our children on what we are doing to our environment and the idiotic reasons for it.
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Summary: I need to find this book's text!!!
Review: I have a UIL project and i need to find the text to THE LORAX. it is my favorite children's book and i would very much like to have it printed out for me to memorize and present in competition. i can't find it anywhere on The Net. thank you very much!!!
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Summary: Not just a child's book.
Review: My college professor used this book, or rather the video version, as an opening to a weekend honor's course seminar about "consumption and sustainable development". This subject matter is of the utmost importance world wide. The Lorax speaks for the planet. If we don't take care of our natural resources, we will lose them. Read this book no matter what your age or status in life. It's message is very real. Listen to it and heed it.
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Summary: All I can say is....
Review: All I can say is this: protect, protect, protect. Great book! Great theme! Oh yeah, and, "I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees!" always sticks with me.
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Summary: This book is terrific for Toddlers
Review: The story is about an ambitious entrepreneur who lets his success crowd out his good judgement and then ends up destroying his own business by being too greedy!! Yikes!! But it is a great book--and our toddler loves it. We recieved many Dr. Seuss books as baby shower gifts and this one came too. One day we had read everything on the shelf, and the only books left were the ones I had set aside for when he was older, the Lorax among them,....so we tried reading the Lorax, and now we read it almost everyday, sometimes three times through. One of our toddler's first words was "Thneed"...which everyone, everyone, everyone needs!! Great book! Read your "big kid" books to your toddlers, our's loves them.
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Summary: I like Dr. Seuss
Review: I always loved Dr. Seuss. My favorite book is called The Lorax because I liked when this guy came to this land started to build a factory,and started chopping trees down. Then there was this Lorax who came and told him to stop chopping the truffula trees down. I liked the pictures. In the beginning they were dark and in middle part they were light and colorful. The end was dark again. The kids under 5 and 7 would like the book because of the rhyming and color. It is about polluting and a cautionary tale so the kids won't pollute. I recommend it to little kids.
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Summary: An amazing allegory
Review: Others have commented on the power and appeal of this allegory. I'd like to point out a few details.The Lorax is obviously a metaphor for the Northern Spotted Owl (NSO) of the North American Pacific Northwest coastal fir and redwood forest. Its body shape, stance, and function as an indicator species are true. The NSO depends mostly on a couple of prey species: a wood vole and a red flying sqirrel. In the story, they're the Brown Barbaloots and the Lorax is "in charge" of their lives in the Truffula forest. In real life, they'd overpopulate and starve without the NSO's regulatory predation. The vole's favorite food is the North American truffle, which only grows well in the root systems of climax (mature, ancient) forests. (Get it? Truffle trees.) The Humming Fish of the story could represent any of several fish species which spawn in the shady streams of these old forests, and can't reproduce when the shade trees are removed. Probably brown trout or Sockeye salmon. This is all classic population biology now (See "A Conservation Plan for the NSO" by the USFWS, USDA-FS, and USPS, 1991), but when _The Lorax_ was written it was still unpublished, active research. *How did Theodore Geisel know?* BTW, the Once-ler is Charles Hurwitz. The little kid trusted with the very last seed is you and I.
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Summary: It shows how places can change.
Review: When the guy first gets there, it is a beautiful place. Then he builds a factory and makes stuff. After a while, his buildings start to fall apart and the last of the beautiful trees was cut down. And the place was a dark and gloomy place. And the lorax was the person who was trying to stop the guy from cutting down all the trees. READ IT!!!
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