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Summary: Like a window into a perfect world...
Review: There was always something about Dr. Seuss. I read a lot of books when I was a kid, and before that my parents read them to me, but there was always something about Seuss's work that even a little kid can recognize as genius. I could read them over and over again, even when I got to an age where Seuss was "baby-stuff." Maybe it was the pictures and maybe it was the musical nature of the words, but more likely it was the fact that Seuss's stuff is as close to putting pure imagination on paper as your ever likely to see.There are lot's of imitators these days, but they're not Seuss. No one could draw a Sneetch, Grinch or Who like Seuss could. Heck, nobody knew what a Sneetch was until Seuss showed us. His creatures and creations were so real at times, yet so completely unlike anything we had ever seen before how could we not be amazed. Like Gerald McGrew from "If I Ran the Zoo" Seuss offered us a menagerie of creatures so wondrous and amazing that they could actually make our own world seem dim in comparison. While it's hard to have a "best of" compilation when speaking of Seuss, Random House has done it's best to compile five classics into a tome equal to Bullfinch's Mythology, Aesop's Fables or Grimm's Fairy Tales (the book I ordered along with this one). Each of these stories teaches us something without coming off as pretentious or preachy. In fact, the moral's are sometimes so subtle as to be invisible, but they're there. Now that I have a daughter of my own I try to read to her every night. This book fascinates us both and when she reaches out to try and touch one of the characters on the page, I know exactly how she feels. What kind of father would I be if I denied her the world of Seuss? It would be like stealing the color yellow or putting her imagination in handcuffs. Plus, it gives me an excuse to read all those cool stories all over again. Seuss is just cool.
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Summary: Classics, and not just for children
Review: Wow! So they're all stuck together now... wizard! Really, it's fantastic to see nearly my favorites (although Yerdle the Turtle ranks right up there, along with 1 Fish 2 Fish) all in one anthology. Can they do this! On the financial side, 'tis quite a great price for the five, particularly with the discount. Can't beat that. The imagination of the guy, Theodore Seuss Geisel, is beyond compare; the drawings are absolutely classic -- I remember looking at the intricate loops of the bridges and tophats of birds from the time I was three-years old or so. Really, the memories never go away. If I ran the Zoo is pure joy, along witht the Sleep Book. I cannot recommend this collection more highly.
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Summary: Ack! Not all these together!! It's tooooo much!!
Review: Wow! So they're all stuck together now... wizard! Really, it's fantastic to see nearly my favorites (although Yerdle the Turtle ranks right up there, along with 1 Fish 2 Fish) all in one anthology. Can they do this! On the financial side, 'tis quite a great price for the five, particularly with the discount. Can't beat that. The imagination of the guy, Theodore Seuss Geisel, is beyond compare; the drawings are absolutely classic -- I remember looking at the intricate loops of the bridges and tophats of birds from the time I was three-years old or so. Really, the memories never go away. If I ran the Zoo is pure joy, along witht the Sleep Book. I cannot recommend this collection more highly.
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