What is the title of the one where the elephant nurses the egg, and bio mom Maisie runs off to Fl?
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
“So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life’s
a Great Balancing Act.
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3⁄4 percent guaranteed.)
KID, YOU’LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!
So…
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O’Shea, you’re off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting. So…get on your way!”
Hop on Pop was the very first book my dyslexic son read all by himself. I cried and it will also be my favorite one…and I like them all.
I love that.^ in fact, it might be fun to put in a graduation card I’m working on. Or maybe I’ll go get the book. I love Dr. Seuss.
I was never a huge fan as a child. I never liked children’s books.
However, when I was working in an ELL school, the students LOVED Dr. Seuss. They couldn’t understand the words but they loved the singsong way we read them.
The Lorax is probably my favorite.
“Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.”
I have this on wood block on my kitchen wall. I actually have no idea where it came from, but I love it. It hangs next to Margaret Mead’s “never doubt” quote.
Doctor Suess’s Sleep Book had amazing drawings, some of his most fantastical. And I loved Yertle the Turtle and Gertrude McFuzz.
We recently went to bar trivia with D and some of her friends, and there were enough of us that we had to split into two teams. D came up with our team names: Thing One and Thing Two.
Our family favorite is "I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla-Sollew. H’s dad loved this book. He had it memorized and used to recite it to all his kids and grandkids. H has it memorized, too. It is about a guy who leaves home to get away from his troubles. But on his way to the supposedly trouble-free city of Solla Sollew, he runs into even more troubles than he ever imagined. In the end, he goes back to his home and faces the original troubles he ran away from.
After Solla Sollew, the most familiar one in our family is Dr. Suess’s ABC–my 24yo was quoting that the other day–“Vera Violet Vinn is very very very awful on her violin” (to her sister, the violinist).