I note with dismay that none of the places mentioned in the relevant book include the refrigerator, and none of the itinerant protagonists happen to be batteries. Seuss really dropped the ball on this one.
You have The Butter Battle Book as a poll choice but don’t have One Fish Two Fish? What the actual fuck?!!
Anyways… Happy New Year folks! (I’m waiting for this to become unacceptable as other holiday greetings have, because of all the butthurt people that celebrate the various lunar and other flavors of year.)
Another missed opportunity comes to mind, since I’m on the topic. Clearly, the cat was the obvious hero, and the hat was the most logical location for it to be in. However, with a little creativity and forethought, Seuss could have had a real winner on his hands: The Battery in the Refrigerator.
I guess we can’t all be literary geniuses. Sorry Seuss.
@pooflady I couldn’t been over four or five years old, but I distinctly remember asking my father to read this passage over-and-over again and laughing until I cried:
I ran and found a Brickle bush I hid myself away. I got brickles in my britches But I stayed there anyway.
@kdemo THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD. Required gift for all young people. If one has to endure being young, one might as well be able to have enjoyed Fox in Socks.
@UncleVinny - Definitely the most challenging and most fun to read aloud.
Really all Seuss books must be read aloud; I believe it’s a law like the law of gravity.
@mike808 OMG! Wikipedia says it happened in “if I ran the zoo”, but…either way, I never knew he was the first to put it in print?! What a freakin’ hero that guy was. A regular Mister Rogers.
I loved yertle the turtle and other stories not just for the main story but gertrude mcfuzz and the brag book were my real faves. My fac book under the label was hand, hand, finger, thumb but someone else wrote that. I just loved the way my dad would read it and the lyrical rhyming story.
I note with dismay that none of the places mentioned in the relevant book include the refrigerator, and none of the itinerant protagonists happen to be batteries. Seuss really dropped the ball on this one.
Red fish, blue fish
The Foot Book.
/giphy The Foot Book
@jst1ofknd I was just going to post this. My kids had the board book.
You have The Butter Battle Book as a poll choice but don’t have One Fish Two Fish? What the actual fuck?!!
Anyways… Happy New Year folks! (I’m waiting for this to become unacceptable as other holiday greetings have, because of all the butthurt people that celebrate the various lunar and other flavors of year.)
Sneetches.
@oppodude fuck those stuck up star bellied sneetches.
Another missed opportunity comes to mind, since I’m on the topic. Clearly, the cat was the obvious hero, and the hat was the most logical location for it to be in. However, with a little creativity and forethought, Seuss could have had a real winner on his hands: The Battery in the Refrigerator.
I guess we can’t all be literary geniuses. Sorry Seuss.
/giphy go dog go
a dog party in a tree…what…?
@bullrocky what a dog party!
(But, this is a PD Eastman book, under the Suess banner. Still my kids’ favorite Suess book though!)
@bullrocky also…
Do you like my hat?
@00 @bullrocky I do not like that hat.
The Lorax
@TheGreatNico this should have been in the list. I would have voted for it.
While not books in and of themselves, I loved the Star-Bellied Sneeches and Yertle the Turtle stories.
Fox in socks was by far our favorite. My wife and I got really good at reading it to our daughter at night.
There’s a Wocket in My Pocket.
Which contains the second worst of his characters (behind the Once-ler), the bofa on the sofa. What an insufferable creep .
The Lorax!!! Actually watched the video based on this book in an Environmental Science class in college.
@emt305 Ah, must be an Evergreen alumni!
@emt305 @macromeh - Go Greeners!!
Pale Green Pants With Nobody Inside Them
@pooflady - That scared my son so much. He still talks about it.
@kdemo How old is he now?
@pooflady I couldn’t been over four or five years old, but I distinctly remember asking my father to read this passage over-and-over again and laughing until I cried:
@pooflady - I’ll just say he has a daughter of his own and he reads to her every night. Pale Green Pants is not in the rotation.
ETA - In addition, he owns no pale green pants.
Hop on Pop
@katbyter that’s my sons favorite
the story with SPAM.
You’re Only Old Once!
I bought it for my mother, in those long ago days, and then for myself.
Honorable mention for The Glunk that got Thunk (which is one of those I can do by heart).
@Shrdlu And once we are sure you are properly pilled then these forms must be properly filled so you and your heirs can be properly billed. So true!
No votes for the 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, yet? Well… here’s one.
@UncleVinny That’s my favorite!
Fox in Socks
@kdemo THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD. Required gift for all young people. If one has to endure being young, one might as well be able to have enjoyed Fox in Socks.
@UncleVinny - Definitely the most challenging and most fun to read aloud.
Really all Seuss books must be read aloud; I believe it’s a law like the law of gravity.
Pale green pants with nobody inside them!! I was going to say fox in socks or the Lorax but I think pale green pants takes it!
@Snshyn75 I don’t know that one!
@Snshyn75 @UncleVinny - In our copy, Pale Green Pants was one of the “other stories” in Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories.
/image Yertle the Turtle
Because that’s where the good doctor coined the word “nerd” for my peeps.
@mike808 OMG! Wikipedia says it happened in “if I ran the zoo”, but…either way, I never knew he was the first to put it in print?! What a freakin’ hero that guy was. A regular Mister Rogers.
Happy Birthday to You! because that bird really hooks you up on your big day.
I loved yertle the turtle and other stories not just for the main story but gertrude mcfuzz and the brag book were my real faves. My fac book under the label was hand, hand, finger, thumb but someone else wrote that. I just loved the way my dad would read it and the lyrical rhyming story.
Dr Seuss’ Sleep Book:
I wanted that place when I was a kid.
The Lorax, of course.
none of them.
500 hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is my favorite by the Doctor, but Snug House Bug house is my favorite kid’s book.
Big fan of Green Eggs and Ham but growing up we always had a personal preference for Bartholomew and the Oobleck. Underrated title I think.
/giphy oobleck
the big green yertle the turtle book, that also contained the story of gertrude and her feathers
???
@mediocrebot, I implore you to get a copy editor.
Is there a book for the 5000 fingers of Dr. T.?
Yertle the turtle
/giphy Yertle
There’s a Wocket in my Pocket
Go,dog!go.