The Sneetches and Other Stories Illus in full color Four funny easy to read stories all with subtly planted moral lessons Publishers Weekly THE SNEETCHES Now the Star Belly Sneetches Had bellies with stars The Plain Belly Sneetches
Illus in full color Four funny easy to read stories all with subtly planted moral lessons Publishers Weekly THE SNEETCHES Now, the Star Belly Sneetches Had bellies with stars The Plain Belly Sneetches Had none upon thars This collection of four of Dr Seuss s most winning stories begins with that unforgettable tale of the unfortunate Sneetches, bamboozledIllus in full color Four funny easy to read stories all with subtly planted moral lessons Publishers Weekly THE SNEETCHES Now, the Star Belly Sneetches Had bellies with stars The Plain Belly Sneetches Had none upon thars This collection of four of Dr Seuss s most winning stories begins with that unforgettable tale of the unfortunate Sneetches, bamboozled by one Sylvester McMonkey McBean the Fix it up Chappie , who teaches them that pointless prejudice can be costlyE ZAXFollowing the Sneetches, a South Going Zax and a North Going Zax seem determined to butt heads on the prairie of PraxO MANY DAVESThen there s the tongue twisting story of Mrs McCave you know, the one who had 23 sons and named them all Dave She realizes that she d be far less confused had she given them different names, like Marvin O Gravel Balloon Face or Zanzibar Buck Buck McFate WHAT WAS I SCARED OF A slightly spooky adventure involving a pair of haunted trousers What was I scared of closes out the collection Sneetches and Other Stories is Seuss at his best, with distinctively wacky illustrations and ingeniously weird prose Ages 4 to 8 Paul Hughes
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Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, MA 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 vaction 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 WW 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