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Title: A Hatful of Seuss: Five Favorite Dr. Seuss Stories by Dr. Seuss ISBN: 0-679-88388-6 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 13 January, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good story selection, questionable book quality
Comment: There is little to add to the chorus of praise for the works of Dr. Seuss. The content is unimpeachable and the choices of his works for inclusion here are a good random mix.
That said, the book itself has a flaw common to books of this type. It is not durable enough for extended use by children. Because it contains multiple stories, it will see more use than a single storied book. Books of this size and length need the strongest bindings and reinforcing possible. A "Curious George" compendium that we own that is made similarly to the Seuss book fell apart after a few readthroughs, and only the adults handled it. The spine of the Seuss book is weakening after only a year of ownership. Manufacturers need to offer us better quality.
I also must say it is disappointing that no complete collection of Suess's material exists. His entire works would be quite large, but it is still odd that no one has seen fit to put everything he wrote for children in a multi-volume set. The best we have at this time is the five selection book here.
Rating: 5
Summary: Who doesn't love Dr. Seuss?
Comment: It's fun for kids and for you! Everyone will be entertained for hours.
Rating: 5
Summary: Like a window into a perfect world...
Comment: There was always something about Dr. Seuss. I read a lot of books when I was a kid, and before that my parents read them to me, but there was always something about Seuss's work that even a little kid can recognize as genius. I could read them over and over again, even when I got to an age where Seuss was "baby-stuff." Maybe it was the pictures and maybe it was the musical nature of the words, but more likely it was the fact that Seuss's stuff is as close to putting pure imagination on paper as your ever likely to see.
There are lot's of imitators these days, but they're not Seuss. No one could draw a Sneetch, Grinch or Who like Seuss could. Heck, nobody knew what a Sneetch was until Seuss showed us. His creatures and creations were so real at times, yet so completely unlike anything we had ever seen before how could we not be amazed. Like Gerald McGrew from "If I Ran the Zoo" Seuss offered us a menagerie of creatures so wondrous and amazing that they could actually make our own world seem dim in comparison.
While it's hard to have a "best of" compilation when speaking of Seuss, Random House has done it's best to compile five classics into a tome equal to Bullfinch's Mythology, Aesop's Fables or Grimm's Fairy Tales (the book I ordered along with this one). Each of these stories teaches us something without coming off as pretentious or preachy. In fact, the moral's are sometimes so subtle as to be invisible, but they're there.
Now that I have a daughter of my own I try to read to her every night. This book fascinates us both and when she reaches out to try and touch one of the characters on the page, I know exactly how she feels. What kind of father would I be if I denied her the world of Seuss? It would be like stealing the color yellow or putting her imagination in handcuffs. Plus, it gives me an excuse to read all those cool stories all over again. Seuss is just cool.
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Title: Green Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books) by Dr. Seuss ISBN: 0394800168 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 August, 1960 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by DR SEUSS ISBN: 0394800133 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 March, 1960 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss ISBN: 039480001X Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 March, 1957 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: Six by Seuss: A Treasury of Dr. Seuss Classics by Dr. Seuss ISBN: 0679821481 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 20 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel ISBN: 0394823370 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 August, 1971 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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