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5 comments to "One Fish, Two Fish: The Life and Times of Dr. Seuss."
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Miss Cellania
December 8th, 2006 at
5:27 am
Dr. Suess taught me to read! I recommend “The Sneeches and other Stories” to teach about bigotry and xenophobia.
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beajerry
December 8th, 2006 at
5:28 am
Dr. Seuss is God.
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Acedia
December 8th, 2006 at
7:05 am
Yes, but Fox in Socks was an exercise in sadism! My daughter keeps choosing it as one of her bedtime stories because it cracks her up to to hear me struggle to get my tongue around “Bim bends Ben’s broom, Ben bends Bim’s broom or six sick bricks tick, six sick chicks tock…then again, maybe it’s my daughter who has the mean streak ; )
But yes, other than that, Suess was a trailblazer in children’s writings. Aside from the environmentalism, bigotry, and xenophobia, he also tackled what must have been a touchy issue at the time in Horton Hatches the Egg about a mom who foists her baby off on someone else to raise while she takes off and indulges herself.
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GeeNee
May 31st, 2007 at
2:26 pm
Green Eggs and Ham was the first english kids book that my mom got me when we moved to America. It was the first book I read and understood the lesson, it was so exciting to me. Not only did I learn english but I learned to always try something once before giving judgement. Lessons been with me since I was 6 years old. If I never learned that lesson I would never know that rocky road ice cream is good in a coke float . . . mmmm . . .
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Joanna
July 11th, 2007 at
12:48 pm
The interesting thing about the racism charge is that Suess’ caricatures of the Japanese were almost certainly just that — caricatures. Several of his wartime cartoons tackled subjects like anti-Semitism and segregation in the military, and the book Horton Hears A Who was written as a cry against prejudice.
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