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A Classic Treasury
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308 pages, Hardcover
First published November 6, 2006
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Dr. Seuss
981 books18.3k followersAlso wrote as Theodore Seuss Geisel, see https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads for Flit. This association lasted 17 years, gained him national exposure, and coined the catchphrase "Quick, Henry, the Flit!"
In 1936 on the way to a vacation in Europe, listening to the rhythm of the ship's engines, he came up with And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which was then promptly rejected by the first 43 publishers he showed it to. Eventually in 1937 a friend published the book for him, and it went on to at least moderate success.
During World War II, Geisel joined the army and was sent to Hollywood. Captain Geisel would write for Frank Capra's Signal Corps Unit (for which he won the Legion of Merit) and do documentaries (he won Oscar's for Hitler Lives and Design for Death). He also created a cartoon called Gerald McBoing-Boing which also won him an Oscar.
In May of 1954, Life published a report concerning illiteracy among school children. The report said, among other things, that children were having trouble to read because their books were boring. This inspired Geisel's publisher, and prompted him to send Geisel a list of 400 words he felt were important, asked him to cut the list to 250 words (the publishers idea of how many words at one time a first grader could absorb), and write a book. Nine months later, Geisel, using 220 of the words given to him published The Cat in the Hat , which went on to instant success.
In 1960 Bennett Cerf bet Geisel $50 that he couldn't write an entire book using only fifty words. The result was Green Eggs and Ham . Cerf never paid the $50 from the bet.
Helen Palmer Geisel died in 1967. Theodor Geisel married Audrey Stone Diamond in 1968. Theodor Seuss Geisel died 24 September 1991.
Also worked under the pen name: Theo Le Sieg
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads for Flit. This association lasted 17 years, gained him national exposure, and coined the catchphrase "Quick, Henry, the Flit!"
In 1936 on the way to a vacation in Europe, listening to the rhythm of the ship's engines, he came up with And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which was then promptly rejected by the first 43 publishers he showed it to. Eventually in 1937 a friend published the book for him, and it went on to at least moderate success.
During World War II, Geisel joined the army and was sent to Hollywood. Captain Geisel would write for Frank Capra's Signal Corps Unit (for which he won the Legion of Merit) and do documentaries (he won Oscar's for Hitler Lives and Design for Death). He also created a cartoon called Gerald McBoing-Boing which also won him an Oscar.
In May of 1954, Life published a report concerning illiteracy among school children. The report said, among other things, that children were having trouble to read because their books were boring. This inspired Geisel's publisher, and prompted him to send Geisel a list of 400 words he felt were important, asked him to cut the list to 250 words (the publishers idea of how many words at one time a first grader could absorb), and write a book. Nine months later, Geisel, using 220 of the words given to him published The Cat in the Hat , which went on to instant success.
In 1960 Bennett Cerf bet Geisel $50 that he couldn't write an entire book using only fifty words. The result was Green Eggs and Ham . Cerf never paid the $50 from the bet.
Helen Palmer Geisel died in 1967. Theodor Geisel married Audrey Stone Diamond in 1968. Theodor Seuss Geisel died 24 September 1991.
Also worked under the pen name: Theo Le Sieg
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January 5, 2022
This collection of stories was a nice little moment of distraction every day to what was going on for me (being stuck in isolation).
I either hadn’t read them or it’s been so long, I barely remembered anything of these tales.
Obviously I am not the target audience. Though, I did gain a little amusement reading them to my dogs.
I either hadn’t read them or it’s been so long, I barely remembered anything of these tales.
Obviously I am not the target audience. Though, I did gain a little amusement reading them to my dogs.
August 5, 2021
The Cat in the Hat
4.5 stars & 5/10 hearts. I read this for the first time as a 20-year-old, reading it aloud to my 4, 7, 11, and 13 years old siblings. They loved it almost as much as I did. The story was clever and hilarious; I appreciated how it talked about not doing dumb stuff and also picking up after yourself. And it was perfectly awesome to read aloud (which is honestly why I rate it 5 stars).
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
3 stars & 3/10 hearts. I didn’t love this one as much as book one. It was funny, but not quite as funny. And I didn’t love the plot as much. But it was a good sequel and my siblings enjoyed it.
Green Eggs and Ham
3 stars & 3/10 hearts. This is a fun read aloud book, especially if you try to do a different tone for each reply…
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
3 stars & 3/10 hearts. A cute story with a cute moral. It didn’t appeal to me more than that, or to my siblings, but it’s fun to read once.
Fox in Socks
3 stars & 3/10 hearts. I honestly got just a little frustrated with how hard this was to read aloud! But it would make a great beginning-reader book.
4.5 stars & 5/10 hearts. I read this for the first time as a 20-year-old, reading it aloud to my 4, 7, 11, and 13 years old siblings. They loved it almost as much as I did. The story was clever and hilarious; I appreciated how it talked about not doing dumb stuff and also picking up after yourself. And it was perfectly awesome to read aloud (which is honestly why I rate it 5 stars).
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
3 stars & 3/10 hearts. I didn’t love this one as much as book one. It was funny, but not quite as funny. And I didn’t love the plot as much. But it was a good sequel and my siblings enjoyed it.
Green Eggs and Ham
3 stars & 3/10 hearts. This is a fun read aloud book, especially if you try to do a different tone for each reply…
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
3 stars & 3/10 hearts. A cute story with a cute moral. It didn’t appeal to me more than that, or to my siblings, but it’s fun to read once.
Fox in Socks
3 stars & 3/10 hearts. I honestly got just a little frustrated with how hard this was to read aloud! But it would make a great beginning-reader book.
July 19, 2018
I bought this at a book fair for 20p. Duh a bargain. I liked it. It was ok. The grinch was my favourite
August 21, 2020
I bought this book from a charity shop intending to read it to some children at work. Well, while waiting for someone to collect a table from my house, I thought let’s have a sneaky preview... I ended up reading all 200 odd pages! It was such a blast from the past, I remembered listening to green eggs and ham when I was in Nursery! And the Grinch who stole Christmas. Just beautiful short stories with beautiful illustrations. Very different to what I would normally read but I enjoyed it non the less! Recommend 4.8/5
February 9, 2017
Sitting on my shelf is well thumbed book. I have had it since a child and even to this day pick it up once in a while and read its contents. What is this tome? A slice of classic children’s literature that taught me all about the absurd and that words could be played with. This was not ‘‘Wind in the Willows’’ or ‘Swiss Family Robinson’’, my classic is a Dr Seuss Omnibus that contained four of his books.
‘‘Dr. Seuss: A Classic Treasury’’ is another such collection, but whist my grouping had some curveballs, this one contains some well-known classics; ‘‘The Cat in the Hat’’,
‘‘The Cat in the Hat Comes Back’’, ‘‘Green Eggs and Ham’’, ‘‘Fox in Socks’’ and ‘‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’’. A couple of these books are so well known they have been turned into feature films, whilst one of them has a character called Sam-I-Am and that is enough to get me excited.
For any fan of Dr Seuss they will be aware of ‘‘The Cat in the Hat’’ and ‘‘The Grinch’’; both of their most famous outings are featured in this book. The two Cat books highlight Seuss’ sense of mischief as the feline gets up to all types of naughtiness when pretending to be helpful. As for The Grinch, his Christmas tale is well loved in America and worth reading here too as it has a strong ‘‘A Christmas Carol’’ style moral centre.
Whilst three of the stories use Seuss nonsense rhymes to tell a story, the other two are my favourites as they concentrate almost solely on his wordplay. Both ‘‘Fox’’ and ‘‘Green Eggs’’ are almost riddles as they build up the rhyme so that you are soon tripping over your words. A great game to play when it is time for reading to your child is to give the book to your partner to read and watch them squirm. Whilst some authors write tricky rhymes, Seuss takes them to the next level and makes them almost impossible. To the right type of impish child this is a delight as they really see what fun can be had with silly words.
Why should you pick up ‘‘Dr. Seuss: A Classic Treasury’’? The books are brilliant teaching tools for emerging readers who want a challenge. I know I gained a lot from working my way through some of the tricky stories. What makes them work is Seuss’ sense of the absurd. The classic images are here that fans love – who does not want to read about a fox wearing socks whilst standing on clocks, and then seeing it all on paper? Perhaps you will buy this book for a son or daughter and they will treasure it as much as I do the copy given to me decades ago? Original review on thebookbag.co.uk
‘‘Dr. Seuss: A Classic Treasury’’ is another such collection, but whist my grouping had some curveballs, this one contains some well-known classics; ‘‘The Cat in the Hat’’,
‘‘The Cat in the Hat Comes Back’’, ‘‘Green Eggs and Ham’’, ‘‘Fox in Socks’’ and ‘‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’’. A couple of these books are so well known they have been turned into feature films, whilst one of them has a character called Sam-I-Am and that is enough to get me excited.
For any fan of Dr Seuss they will be aware of ‘‘The Cat in the Hat’’ and ‘‘The Grinch’’; both of their most famous outings are featured in this book. The two Cat books highlight Seuss’ sense of mischief as the feline gets up to all types of naughtiness when pretending to be helpful. As for The Grinch, his Christmas tale is well loved in America and worth reading here too as it has a strong ‘‘A Christmas Carol’’ style moral centre.
Whilst three of the stories use Seuss nonsense rhymes to tell a story, the other two are my favourites as they concentrate almost solely on his wordplay. Both ‘‘Fox’’ and ‘‘Green Eggs’’ are almost riddles as they build up the rhyme so that you are soon tripping over your words. A great game to play when it is time for reading to your child is to give the book to your partner to read and watch them squirm. Whilst some authors write tricky rhymes, Seuss takes them to the next level and makes them almost impossible. To the right type of impish child this is a delight as they really see what fun can be had with silly words.
Why should you pick up ‘‘Dr. Seuss: A Classic Treasury’’? The books are brilliant teaching tools for emerging readers who want a challenge. I know I gained a lot from working my way through some of the tricky stories. What makes them work is Seuss’ sense of the absurd. The classic images are here that fans love – who does not want to read about a fox wearing socks whilst standing on clocks, and then seeing it all on paper? Perhaps you will buy this book for a son or daughter and they will treasure it as much as I do the copy given to me decades ago? Original review on thebookbag.co.uk
January 8, 2020
No idea why I liked these books as a kid.
They are creepy and just utter nonsense and weird.
I don’t like it at all..
They are creepy and just utter nonsense and weird.
I don’t like it at all..
November 24, 2024
As a grown adult, I had far too much fun reading these
February 5, 2022
It is a shame that it took me 20 years of my life to read Dr. Seuss! I was watching the "Green Eggs and Ham" series on Netflix and loved the style, story and the rhymes so much I decided to pick up the collection. The playful language is so delightful and the illustrations are beyond cute. Someday, when I will have children myself I will definitely teach them English with the help of Dr. Seuss's books.
July 18, 2016
I discovered this book at my favourite bookshop in Somerset West and thought that Leonie would enjoy the way Seuss plays with and rhymes words. It's been in her cupboard for close on a year and she's not been interested in it at all. Now that they're playing around with alphabets at school, and maybe she's tired of all the nursery rhymes, she chooses this one as a bedtime story. Fortunately I don't have to read it all the way to the end! At times she'll drop off to sleep halfway through and at other times she insists that Daddy reads the rest (hehehe, some lekker tongue twisters here) ... and since we just couldn't ignore Sam in Green Eggs and Ham he's off to Exeter on Leonie's birthday with the infamous book in his suitcase!
It's a pity this compilation does not include The Lorax, which is Leonie's all-time favourite. We've also got the movie, which she's watched a several times. When the neighbours started chopping down trees last week, Leonie was at the fence to warn them that the Lorax is sure to visit them at any minute! We've also planted a tree or two to make the Lorax happy.
It's a pity this compilation does not include The Lorax, which is Leonie's all-time favourite. We've also got the movie, which she's watched a several times. When the neighbours started chopping down trees last week, Leonie was at the fence to warn them that the Lorax is sure to visit them at any minute! We've also planted a tree or two to make the Lorax happy.
November 1, 2016
Though this app contains many familiar and beloved books by Dr. Seuss, it is incredibly misleading. It is listed as “free” yet when downloaded requires a subscription that can be purchased either monthly or yearly.
Users can download each book one at a time. The books can be read without interactive features (“read to myself”), can be read aloud like an audiobook with text highlighted in color as it’s read (“read to me”), or read aloud with music and animation (“auto play”). The only version with interactive features is the “read to me” version, where readers can tap on different parts of the pictures and see the names for what they are pointing at. Readers can also tap words to re-hear them. In this version, the reader needs to tap the screen to turn the page, but the app doesn’t do anything if the reader is inactive for awhile.
Though the sound effects are fun and the pictures true to the originals, the lack of interactivity combined with the difficulty navigating this app make it, in my opinion, definitely not worth the expensive subscription fee.
Users can download each book one at a time. The books can be read without interactive features (“read to myself”), can be read aloud like an audiobook with text highlighted in color as it’s read (“read to me”), or read aloud with music and animation (“auto play”). The only version with interactive features is the “read to me” version, where readers can tap on different parts of the pictures and see the names for what they are pointing at. Readers can also tap words to re-hear them. In this version, the reader needs to tap the screen to turn the page, but the app doesn’t do anything if the reader is inactive for awhile.
Though the sound effects are fun and the pictures true to the originals, the lack of interactivity combined with the difficulty navigating this app make it, in my opinion, definitely not worth the expensive subscription fee.
February 19, 2011
A charming menagerie of fun, frolics and fervour. I enjoyed every line, and will read this book time and time again. What a beautiful masterpiece, and what a shame they don't make them like they used to anymore! Fox in Socks was my favourite story of the five... but will I ever be able to recite it? :0)
June 7, 2015
Finally sat and read through all of these today. It's been in my "to read" pile since I got it from the library in May. Fox in Socks is a real tongue twister :)
I'm reading or in this case rereading through two of the 100 best books lists. One from the Times and one from the Telegraph. Dr. Seuss time. I don't remember if I read all of these as a child or not, but now I have (again perhaps)
I'm reading or in this case rereading through two of the 100 best books lists. One from the Times and one from the Telegraph. Dr. Seuss time. I don't remember if I read all of these as a child or not, but now I have (again perhaps)
June 5, 2013
It's a nice book and cool.
December 30, 2016
I have been a Seuss fan for 50 years - such a talented writer and illustrator, yet this was the first time I have read the Grinch. Great story.
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