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Your Favorite Seuss: A Baker's Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss
written by Dr. Seuss
Studio : Random House Books for Young Readers
by Random House Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2004-10-12
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Released : 2004-10-12
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780375810619
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 61 reviews)
List Price : $34.95
Our Price : $20.00
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Product Description |
From his very first book to his very last book, here in one big volume are 13 classic Dr. Seuss stories, everyone’s favorites. All of the words and virtually all of the illustrations are included. Each story is prefaced by a short essay by someone whose life was changed by Dr. Seuss or who is simply an unabashed admirer. Also included are photographs of Dr. Seuss, memorabilia, and original sketches from his books. The stories included are: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, Horton Hears a Who!, McElligot’s Pool, If I Ran the Zoo, Happy Birthday to You!, Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book, Yertle the Turtle, The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Green Eggs and Ham, The Lorax, The Sneetches, and Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Theodor Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) was born March 2, 1904, and died September 25, 1991.
With introductory essays to each story by:
Barbara Bader, Author and Critic
Stan and Jan Berenstain, Creators of The Berenstain Bears
Audrey Geisel, Widow of Dr. Seuss
Peter Glassman, Children’s Bookseller
Starr LaTronica, Children’s Librarian
John Lithgow, Actor and Children’s Book Author
Barbara Mason, Kindergarten Teacher
Richard H. Minear, Author of Dr. Seuss Goes to War
Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon
Charles D. Cohen, Author of The Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and
Nothing but the Seuss
Pete Seeger, Folksinger
Christopher Cerf, TV Writer, Composer, and Producer
Lane Smith, Children’s Book Illustator |
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Classical Seuss - which means a lot of fun for children as well as adults. The book itself is big enought for my 7 & 1/2 month old son to confortably sit on it. The only minus - too many black & white illustrations. |
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not a very good collection |
My kids and I love Dr. Suess very much, and yet, I don't recommend this collection.
First, not all of these stories are of the interesting ones. There are many stories here that are of the kind of the nonesense books, stories that don't really have a plot, or a moral, or something changing, or any real caracter. I am talking about stories like "If I ran the zoo", "Things you see on Mullberry street", "McEligot's Pool". They mostly talk about all kinds of different funny animals. My kids like them, but I die of bordom when I read them, and I usually am fascinated with kids stories. So this book is a mixture of the two types of Dr. Suess's stories - the ones without plot, and the interesting ones with the plot, like "Yertle the Turtle", "Horton hears a who" and a few more. This is definitely not a collection of all of Dr. Suess's best stories.
I have a feeling that the editors did not want to really collect all the interesting stories, becuase then we would not buy many books. There are many important stories that were left out.
Second, the articles in front of each story are not interesting. They are mostly talking about how much these people love Dr. Suess. Not much to really learn about Dr. Suess or his stories. So these articles don't add much value. The pictures from Dr. Suess's desk are nice but not enough to justify the price or weight of this book.
The conclusion: you get a few interesting stories, and not much more, for a high price, and end up with a very heavy book. |
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This is a thick & heavy "collectible" edition of 13 stories with extras... |
Every few weeks, I read one of these stories to my family after dinner as we sit at the table. Our kids are "older" than Dr. Seuss now but we have been enjoying re-visiting the memories of yesteryear as well as talking about the lessons in the stories that fit with junior high and high school age realities.
Having a page of background about Dr. Seuss at the beginning of each story has been special as well ~ we've enjoyed getting to know more about this delightful man and his life.
If you are buying Dr. Seuss to read to younger kids, you might prefer to buy the individual books which would be lighter, easier to hold, and thus more accessible relative to the pictures and the whole experience for the little one. But for our family, this volume has been really quite perfect :)
Bon Appetit! |
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Dr Seuss collection |
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Much more than a humorist or fanciful children's writer, Dr Seuss was ahead of his time...his social and political commentaries are much wider in scope than most people realize. He should be required reading through middle school--even beyond. His simple themes and observations ask the larger questions every society should continually ask and demand a commitment from the reader to chose a point of view. |
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Great Seuss collection |
This is my 3 y.o.'s favorite book, he calls it "the big book" and almost every night he asks for it when it's time for story-telling, even though he has a big collection of books which he loves, including many Seuss books, none can top this one.
This is a great book, it allows you to have lots of Seuss stories all gathered up even if you don't have a lot of space in your house, and it's great for traveling because you can take so many stories with you in one single volume. Plus, they have kept all the illustrations, even though sometimes they may crowd up two into one page because of the length of the volume. Still, it's a great buy, I highly recommend it. In my opinion there's no higher recommendation that the love my son has for this book. :-) |
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