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Summary: Only Dr. Seuss could teach a basic truth with so much fun!
Review: "What was I scared of?", the last story in this book, has long been my favorite Dr. Seuss story. I read it aloud as a child. Now it is one of my son's favorites. Dr. Seuss explores scary things like the dark, people or things that aren't familiar, and the idea that it doesn't work to try and run or hide, all within a silly story of green pants with nobody inside them. The sneetches and their struggle to be elite makes any number of statements about our society in a way that is simple for young minds to understand. And the stories about the stubborn Zax and the mother who named all her sons Dave turn words into an amusement park. Definitely one of Dr. Seuss' best.
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Summary: And the Star-belly sneetches had 5 stars upon thars...
Review: Although best loved for children's literature, it is often noted that Dr. Seuss wrote about social issues. This is one of his best, but least cited, examples. This book is a collection of 4 shorter-than-usual Dr. Seuss stories, but ones with quite significant social meaning. The first, and most well known of the book, is the Sneetches. It is a story of a society of haves and have-nots (imagine that!), in which access to the goodies of life are determined by whether or not you have a star on your belly. Read into it what you will. Whatever you make of it, it is certainly a commentary on racial, gender, or any number of other social categories! The story's strength is that it shows just how arbitrary and constructed these categories are. Features -- such as a star, but also skin color, gendered attributes, etc etc -- can be used to define people as dominant and powerful, or repressed and marginalized. What is at issue is not which characteristics are used to delineate people into specific social categories or identities, but how people marginalize others by playing up those definitions... The Zax is a cute little story, which teaches us that compromise is quite important. Too many Daves is equally short and cute, although its meaning is less obvious. I see it as a cry for individualism. Could just be a cute story... Finally, "What was I Scared Of?" is another really good story with a social meaning -- again read into it as you will. In this story, there is a pair of pale green pants which has no one inside of it. The main character is afraid of them, but only because he never bothered to find out about them... what they were about. In fact, the empty green pants are just as afraid of him as he is of them! When they both realize they are pretty much the same, once you stood face to face with the other. Five Stars I do give it! Five Stars Upon Thars!
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Summary: Dr. Seuss' masterpiece
Review: Dr. Seuss wrote this wonderfully rich tale of the sneetches with a keen eye for simplifying social injustices. Using past anti-semitic imagery of the star of David on jewish clothes during WWII, Seuss teaches the lessons of self-acceptance and tolerance; all children should learn this lesson from their parents--however way they wish to teach them. Seuss offers us this great enjoyable tool with which to teach children and probably even more important--adults--what should be inborn.
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Summary: The Sneetches
Review: I loved this book, it relates so much to the prejudice crimes of todays society. I bet a million bucks that that is how Seuss got his inspiration to write thsi wonderful childrens book. I read in my HONORS reading class and i absolutly loved it. It is a star book.
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Summary: Please get this book for someone you love!
Review: I personally feel that lyrical poetry is a wonderful tool to help children learn to read. It helps them to feel the rhythms of the English language, they can anticipate what will come next, and then they can memorize passages - it's just a wonderful thing. I often wonder if my love of Shakespeare developed from all those readings of How the Grinch Stole Christmas (William is most likely rolling in his grave right now...) This book is loads of fun - expect squeals of delight when you read the story of the frightful "empty Pants with nobody inside 'em". You can't beat the Sneetches for a hidden story about equality, and the story about too many Daves is a riot! Especially since most of us DO know too many Daves!!
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Summary: A multi-generational classic!!!!
Review: I remember my mom reading these stories to me as a little girl and now I have the privilege to read them to my children. I still have our battered and taped up version signed by my mom in 1974. I have decided to purchase a new book and try to preserve the older one. I have two children and hopefully I can pass these to them when it's their turn to hold a tiny one in their lap and read these timeless words.
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Summary: A Classic
Review: My grandma used to read this book to my sister and I and our cousins all the time. I'm buying it for my kids. I love the lessons in this book and that it is funny and easy for kids. I great book for learning to read!
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Summary: The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss
Review: This has to be the best Dr. Seuss story there there is. It has colorful pictures, funny names and words, and a great storyline. It also teaches one of the best lessons a child could learn: don't discriminate.
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Summary: You'll wear out the book before you get tired reading it.
Review: This is definetly one of Dr. Seuss' best. Four stories with messages so subtle and solutions so obvious that both adult and child will enjoy them again and again. Time (and repitition) has not dimmed any of their charm. The story of The Sneetches focuses on prejudice. Perhaps the most subtle of all Dr. Seuss stories, it demonstrates the silliness of stereotypes and what happens to those who subscribe to them. The story of The Zax tells the story of two stubborn and inflexible Zax. And what happens when they happen to run into each other. Too Many Daves is one mother's story of naming all twenty-three of her children Dave. But my favorite it What Was I Scared Of? It's a not very scary story of seeing a pair of "pale green pants with nobody, inside them". And what to do if you should see them.
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Summary: Five Stars Upon Thars!
Review: This is definitely one of my favorite books! It's a classic, for young and old alike. I've read it countless times, it just keeps getting better. They might be childrens' stories, but there is a lesson to be learned from each of them.
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