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The Sneetches and Other Stories

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If you are a racist, umm, I mean Star Belly Sneetch, you should buy and read this book. It will simplify your ignorance to the point where even you might be able to understand the implications of your own racism.

If you are not a racist, you should buy this book. It will simplify racists to the point that you will give a hardy chuckle -- and wish that the good old doctor could have lived forever . . . .

This Dr. Seuss offering I read to my own children 25 yrs. ago, and now my grandchildren are enjoying this book, as well. These stories are less non-sensical, yet convey a message in a whimsical way. Our kids ESPECIALLY like the pale green pants story, and when my 7 yr. old granddaughter read it to ME the other night, I could say it right along with her......I've read it so many times, I know it by heart!! I highly recommend this particular Dr. Seuss book.

I obviously don't HAVE to write a review about any Dr.Seuss books but it's amazing how they bring back memories. Now, 20 yrs after these books were read to me, my husband and I get to read them to our daughter, 3 months old. We're hoping that one day she will carry on the tradition of reading these books to her children. I'm hoping to own them all :)

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.

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.

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!

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!!

This was one of my favorite books when I was a child. I ordered it a couple months ago, since I remembered how much I had loved it. I laughed so hard I cried, through almost the whole book! It's amazing to me that this man could have come up with the important lessons that he did, and get them across in such funny ways and while making the fantastic rhymes that he did! The book amazed me as I was laughing and crying! The story of the Sneetches that thought they were better than everyone else getting their comeuppance had me in stitches. The northgoing and southgoing zax with their lesson on stubbornness and "I won't budge" made me think that everyone in my whole family (up,down and sideways) must have read this story and instead of learning NOT to be stubborn, used the zaxes as their heros in learning TO be stubborn (don't budge EVEN if they build the highway over you)!!!! And the guy being scared of the pants with nobody in them, and it turns out the pants were depressed and scared too!!! It shows that others have the same feelings you do (even if the "others" are strange personless pants)!!! These lessons are SO good and useful for everyone . . . (Okay! So I didn't understand the lesson in the 23 Daves!) This book, to me, is pure genius. It is as timely today as when it was written in 1961.

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.

Now that my years of reading bedtime stories are over, this book stands out as the one my kids and I enjoyed the most. The rhymes are bouncy, memorable and rhythmic, and the stories manage to impart life lessons without sounding preachy. My kids especially liked the last story about the pale green pants, fear of the unknown being an issue around here.