Comments on: The Quick 10: Stories Behind 10 Dr. Seuss Stories

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:10:00 +0000

In high school my favorite history teacher read us The Butter Battle Book when we were learning about the Cold War.

By: Tina Kubala

Tina Kubala — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:57:00 +0000

The Butter Battle Book is my favorite Seuss. It’s really silly for being a book about war.

By: Bill T

Bill T — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:56:00 +0000

Back in the early 90s his original sketches were on display in my home town at the Butler Museum of American Art. It was pretty cool.

By: Kehlar

Kehlar — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:21:00 +0000

On Beyond Zebra was Suess’ alternative alphabet book and then there was The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins and the live movie The 5000 fingers of Dr. T

As much as the recent movie cat in the hat and the grinch are wrong 5000 fingers is astounding in it’s suess qualities.
The Trailer for the movie is online, I always wanted to read all his books but I never did get a full list and some of them are rather hard to find. I would totally buy a complete works especially if it included the ww II cartoons.

By: Moto

Moto — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:11:00 +0000

The Butter Battle book was my favorite Seuss story after the Lorax. (I think at one point my mom had them both memorized due to the repeated readings)

I think I was a very sad child.

By: Eirn

Eirn — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:11:00 +0000

The first book I ever read was Green Eggs and Ham. My dad and I used to read together every night and he would do different voices for all the characters. I attribute my love of the written word to Suess’s great books (and my dad’s patience with me when I wanted to hear “just one more”)

By: Marielle

Marielle — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:53:00 +0000

reading this make me want to get out my Dr. Suess stories and just read them for hours. I’m actually pretty privlaged to live in the same neighborhood as Dr Suess and to add to Dr suess trivia, he wrote a story to stop the city council for allowing billboards here in my neighborhood. He was just a remarkable man

By: Louise Hewitt

Louise Hewitt — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:23:06 +0000

I use “Red Fish, Blue Fish” as a primer on faceted classification when I’m introducing clients to better search presentation methods.

And “The Places You’ll Go” was my wedding reading.

Do I get a Seuss badge?

By: Zman

Zman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:28:32 +0000

I’m not sure, but I’ve always found a correlation between the Grinch and Grendel from the old english story “Beowulf”. Yes, it was remade as a sucky movie.

Either way, Grendel hated the joyous parties that the Geats had and decided to go on a killing rampage. Finally Beowulf kills him. So not so much in common, but at least the whole jealousy thing.

By: VersoFolio

VersoFolio — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:41:21 +0000

My first Dr. S book was “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.” It’s still my personal favorite, but mainly for sentimental reasons. Regardless, I regularly read a number of Theo’s tomes to my daughter. Despite my best efforts, she favors “Green Eggs and Ham.” Ah well, to each their own…as I’m sure the good Dr. would agree.