Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss

[filkertom]

On this date in 1904.

If you could only have three Dr. Seuss books, which would they be? Collections, such as Six By Seuss, don't count. ;) Mine would be How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, Horton Hears A Who, and The Lorax. Not coincidentally, those are also my favorite animated versions of Seuss.

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[sdelmonte]

Cat in the Hat; One Fish, Two Fish; and The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins.

Honorable mention to Dr. Seuss Goes to War, the collection of his political cartoons.

[hvideo.livejournal.com]

On Beyond Zebra, If I Ran The Zoo, If I Ran The Circus.

I guess I really like his fantastical animals. :)

[zeekar.livejournal.com]

Cat in the Hat, Fox in Socks, and The Butter Battle Book.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I love the story of the Grinch the best, but I have a very soft spot for "Fox in Sox" and I love to read aloud from "Green Eggs and Ham".

Once, many years ago, we were in Pittsburgh hanging out with friends and we went to the Carnegie Museum to see the Dr Seuss exhibit. And one of the highlights were the original pages from "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish". And as we were looking at the art, you can hear every person who walked past quietly entoning the words. It surely made me smile.

[jbacardi.livejournal.com]

Grinch, for sure, but I'd also choose The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (the big pink stain made a strong impression on me as a kid) and Hop on Pop (my kids' favorite).

I'd also sneak in a copy of Green Eggs and Ham.

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

The Tough Coughs as he Ploughs the Dough, The Seven Lady Godivas, and that Dr. Seuss Goes To War someone else mentioned. I'll go through the kids' stuff too fast.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

Please stop cursing in Romanian.

[mimiheart.livejournal.com]

The Butter Battle Book, Horton Hears a Who, well, The Sneetches, as far as I know, is ONLY in a collection, Sneetches and Other Stories, but since it's the only one I want in it, then that.

[spotshouse.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Places You'll Go, The Lorax, and To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

Grinch, mulberry street, and Cat in the hat (one of my online gaming characters is Thing2

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday To You!, McElligott's Pool, The Butter Battle Book.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

The Lorax, Oh, The Places You'll Go, and at this exact instant, If I Ran the Circus -- which last could easily be any of a dozen others if you ask me again later or tomorrow.

I may have more than 6 memorized.

[capplor.livejournal.com]

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[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

The Lorax,TheGrinch,,and(an unusual submission from the Russian judge) Happy Birthday to You.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

How the Grinch Stole Christmas; Green Eggs and Ham; and Oh the Place You'll Go. The first is my favourite Christmas movie, the second I had when I was wee and learning to read, and the third because, well, because it IS. :)

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Well, Yertle the Turtle has pretty much been discredited at this point.

[ms-anthropy.livejournal.com]

Naw, the turtles just haven't wiggled enough yet.

[j-e-richards.livejournal.com]

How the Grinch Stold Christmas, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, and Horton Hatches the Egg ("I meant what I said and I said what I meant....An elephant's faithful one hundred percent") Words that I've tried to live by since I was 6 years old...

[singingpatient.livejournal.com]

i9 want to see an animated hop on pop.

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

"Green Eggs and Ham" ("would you, could you, with a goat?"), "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" although "The Cat in the Hat" is right up there, as is "Fox in Sox." I can recite sections of each of them....is that good or bad?

[bigbumble.livejournal.com]

"Your Only Old Once", "Scrambled Eggs Super" (And I hate eggs even!) and "The Cat in the Hat".

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

"Horton's" great.
I am terrified by the commercials for the new movie :-(

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

One Fish Two Fish was my introduction to Dada-ist literature. I've always tried to live by the mission statement of that book: From there to here/From here to there,/Funny things/Are everywhere. To this day I break up laughing at the "Look what we found in the park in the dark!" page.

If I Ran the Circus. I adored old daredevil Sneelock.

Green Eggs and Ham. Another great philosophy of life...and possibly the reason I can enjoy a meal anywhere in the world now.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

As I recall, I did only have three Dr. Seuss books growing up:
The Cat in the Hat, Hop on Pop, and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

But I was exposed to plenty of Seuss animated features, so if I could have only three of them:
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, because...yeah, like anyone needs that one explained.
The Lorax, which probably shaped my environmentalist views early on (as I'm sure it did yours, Mr. "Nothing matters five minutes after we run out of breatheable air").
The Butter Battle. I can't recall a better demonstration of the arms race and the nuclear stalemate.

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Ooblek!

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I had a vague memory of a Seuss phonograph that included a story about gloppy goo.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Grinch, Green Eggs and Ham, and Lorax.

[ms-anthropy.livejournal.com]

The Lorax, definitely. Either "500 Hats..." or the one with the Ooblek. And for #3, does anyone else remember/have "Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose?"