Read Across America with Dr. Seuss!

[filkertom]

In case my internet is still spotty while I'm on the road, this is a reminder that tomorrow is the birthday of Ted Geisel. To celebrate, the National Education Association has been having Read Across America days for several years now. If there's nothing official going on at your local school (and if not, why the heck not!?), there's still time to get involved.

And, a special shout out to Diane Brown and her son Chris, whose school in Sand Springs, OK is using "500 Hats" as their theme song for the day!

So. What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book? Mine is How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Comments

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Oh, The Places You'll Go. One of the few bits of true nostalgia I have for the small town I grew up in involves that book...

[belzarak.livejournal.com]

My favorite will always be Green Eggs and Ham. Great memories of this as a child and as a young adult. I even used it for a dramatic reading presentation in one of my college classes many years ago.

-Belz

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

Fox In Socks or One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

It's a tossup between Oh, The Places You'll Go and The Lorax. I love reading the latter aloud, and my kids love it too, which is clearly a Good Thing. :-)

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

My favorite is The Sneetches and Other Stories.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

The Lorax. Definitely.

[greenmansgrove.livejournal.com]

Just had this discussion with my father, and I'm going to have to agree with him... "And to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street", for the sheer imagination involved. With maybe a close second being "McElligot's Pool" for much the same reason.

[lavenderbard.livejournal.com]

"And to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street" is my favorite too. It's the one that best speaks to who I am.

My favorite Suess for reading aloud, however, is "Fox in Socks". I enjoy a challenge.

[netpositive.livejournal.com]

I was a self-taught reader at 3, so by the time I got to school I was already reading far beyond my grade level, so I missed out on some of people's The only Seuss book I've ever owned I bought for myself as a teenager: _Go Dog Go_. "Do you like my hat?" "I do not like your hat."

I also liked _On Beyond Zebra_. I always *knew* there were more letters than those boring old 26! :)

[lavenderbard.livejournal.com]

I was self-taught and reading beyond my grade level too, and I didn't get picture books out of the *public* library. But that didn't stop the teachers at school from assigning me Dick and Jane to read. Suess and Peet were the only books I was allowed to read at school that I actually *liked* until my mother finally wrote a note to the school librarian saying "let my child out of the 'little kids' section or else." Dr. Seuss yesterday, Tarzan of the Apes today. The librarian turned purple, but she let me take it out... I seem to remember that I got a gentle inquisition when I brought it back to ensure that I actually had read it, and after that they left me alone, and let me get out whatever I liked.

As an parent I worship Seuss. Of all the stuff my kids want me to read to them, his books still represent the cream of the crop. My husband (with a BA in English) calls Seuss "the greatest American poet of all time".

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Reading at about two and a half here. Mom thought I was spending an awful lot of time looking at the pictures in "Children's Digest" while waiting for a checkup at the ol' family doctor's. I said no, I'm reading--and promptly read her what was on the page. Blew her mind.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

"Fox In Sox," a favorite in my family for the Surname reference.

The one Dr. Seuss book I have on my shelf at the moment: The Cat In The Hat Dictionary In French.

[ldwheeler.livejournal.com]

The plain-bellied Sneetches had none upon thars ...

[lukeski.livejournal.com]

Fox in Socks. I even had the record of it.

Luke Luck likes lakes
Luke's duck likes lakes
Luke Luck licks lakes
Luke's Duck licks lakes
Luke Luck takes licks in lake duck likes
Luke's duck lick takes in lake Luck likes

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Suddenly, this has gone to the bad place. In a good way, of course. [evil chuckle]

[jss]

Or is that a good place in a bad way?

[figmo.livejournal.com]

There's a record???!?

That was my first Dr. Seuss book. In retrospect I think my father knew something about me I didn't know (that I'd grow up to use my voice for a living). I still keep a copy around, along with "Oh Say Can You Say," when I need to tweak my diction.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Yes, with Green Eggs and Ham on the flip side. The Fox in Sox side had two versions, slow and fast. And as a joke, super-fast (sped up tape), but that version didn't do the whole book.

heh

[illusionmajik.livejournal.com]

Horton Hears a Who
and
The Lorax

I also like I think it was Yertle the Turtle and other stories
*sighs*

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

My favorites are To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, and Scrambled Eggs Super. These were the first books I can remember taking out of the library, and I know I checked each of them out multiple times - I can still hear my mother's voice "You want those books again?" To which I nodded enthusiastically and checked them out again.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Mine's Grinch, too. It's always been my favorite... Always.

Pity it's only relevant once a year.

[ravenclaw-eric.livejournal.com]

I liked the Grinch book myself---but I could sympathize with the old, pre-reform Grinch. A _day_ of Christmas is wonderful and beautiful and magical. A week is fine. A month is pushing it---and when I start seeing Christmas decorations on stores before bloody Halloween, I start thinking longingly about defecting to Albania.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

I'll drive.

[batyatoon]

Probably One Fish Two Fish, though I confess to a weakness for the "tweedle beetles" section of Fox In Socks. There's just something about saying "Now let's have a little talk about ... tweedle beetles" in the most menacing tone one possesses.

[ladysmith.livejournal.com]

Batholomew and the Oobleck.

I even have a recipe for oobleck somewhere in the house.

[daundelyon.livejournal.com]

Yay Oobleck! We made it in science class once.

[ladysmith.livejournal.com]

ICON LOVE!!!!

[dadandgirl.livejournal.com]

I've got a soft spot for "Hop on Pop", which for several years got turned into a Shakesperean performance every evening at bedtime. Even today, when it's time for rough play to end, Dad calls out: "STOP! You must not hop on Pop!"

[animator55.livejournal.com]

The Lorax and The Butter Battle Book

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

How The Grinch Stole Christmas and Fox In Socks. And Ted Geisel in his own brilliant words.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I'd have to say Green Eggs and Ham, understanding that it's because it's been reinforced in my memory so much by the various retellings, from Moxy Fruvous' to "Green Eggs and Lembas". I read a number of the books when I was at that age, but I never really doted on them the way kids these days who get their own personal collections as soon as they start crawling do. I read them at school and got them from the library; I might have had a couple of my own but I don't really remember.

Seuss books

[birder2.livejournal.com]

If you had any of your own, I don't remember them, & I'm pretty sure I would. Library had them & we got them.
Personally, I've always had enough of a soft spot for the Lorax that I keep thinking of trying to found a "Lorax Society" dedicated to NOT buying things that nobody needs.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

I always liked "Go, Dog, Go!" because of all the cool dog pictures in it.

[daundelyon.livejournal.com]

Bartholomew and the Oobleck just because and Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now? because it was one of the first books that my little brother really payed attention to.

[greenlantern-oa.livejournal.com]

I am a 4th grade teacher and every year the Author of the Month in my class is ALWAYS Dr. Seuss!!!! It's funny how a lot of the kids will act too old for Dr. Seuss books when I first start to introduce the lessons and the books, but they are ALWAYS the first ones to pipe down and listen to the stories in intense interest and awe!!!
We have a whole series of events for this week too!! It's just a lot of fun!!

My favorite Dr. Suess books are
Fox in Sox
Sneetches

and in honorable mention I have to say
Oh the Places You'll Go

[indyellen.livejournal.com]

Mine was always Green Eggs and Ham, to the point that it was the first book I bought when I found out I was pregnant. However, my daughter was not to be brought to the green side - her favorites are Hop On Pop and Daisy-Head Mayzie.

I have a personal fondness for The Lorax as an adult, and I love the *animated* Grinch.

favorite Seuss book

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

Horton Hatches the Egg

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I had One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish and found the illustrations compelling in their improbablility, and occasional violations of the nature of space.

[skipjim.livejournal.com]

Green Eggs and Ham, if for no other reason than my five year old daughter still likes to sit in my lap for me to read it to her.

But I am still fond of Fox in Socks, if only for the tweetle beetle battles on a noodle eating poodle section (sadly I'm thinking of the rest of that section and I'm 15 miles away from the book right now).

[capt-video.livejournal.com]

"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant, an elephant's faithful one hundred percent." Oh, I do love Horton! And, of course, The Lorax...

Ask me to pick a favorite child, why don'tcha?

[capplor.livejournal.com]

I like commparing "Green Eggs & Ham" to "Struwelpeter" (It even has the same meter, and Geissel IS a German name). I love trying to read "Fox in Sox" out loud, I've got most of "On Beyond Zebra" and all of "Because a Little Bug Went Kachoo" memorized. But I have to take note -- I learned to read age 4, had the first kid at age 40, without much in the way of small children to read to in between, and I absolutely flabberghasted the husband for how many passages I could quote verbatum out of "The Cat in the Hat" before looking at the copy we bought for the kids.