Some Seuss for Your Sunday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My 50th blog post!! Some more Dr. Seuss library books to go through with you today.  McElligott's Pool is a lesser-known Seuss book about all the unique and unheard of fish that might lurk below in the neighbour's pond- it's fun to look at all the illustrations of all of these ideas from Seuss's imagination.  On Beyond Zebra explores the letters that might exist after Z - much more fanciful and flamboyant letters than our plain and prosaic ABC's.  In Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, the main character allows more and more creatures to perch on his horns- what starts as Thidwick performing a simple kindness begins to become a situation where his fellow creatures are taking advantage of him- until he finally sheds his old horns and begins to grow new ones.

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories includes, besides the title story, The Big Brag and Gertrude McFuzz.    Yertle the Turtle, published in 1958, had the word 'burp' in it, which had never been in a children's book before.  The publishers were concerned about whether they could put it in the book or not- scandalous!!  Pictured is a page from the Gertrude McFuzz story - she is a bird who tries to keep up with the Joneses, or rather, with the other birds, by trying to be the most fastidious and fancy bird of them all - to her own ridiculous downfall.

If I Ran the Circus is another fun imaginary tale about what kinds of fabulous sights there would be at the Circus McGurkus, with the aid of the neighbourly Sneelock.  In Scrambled Eggs Super the main character is collecting eggs from the most far-out and fantastical birds that you have never heard of.  And it's just so fun, when reading this one, to say 'Scrambled Eggs super-dee-dooper-dee-booper!  And last, we have Bartholemew and the Oobleck.  It's not as creepy as The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins- it's a little more light-hearted, with the mysterious substance of oobleck taking over the kingdom, thanks to the king's stubborn pride.

Linking to The Children's Bookshelf