I set off to be the first mom to read each and every Dr. Seuss book and I didn't even come close. Sigh.
As much as I love and admire Theodor Geisel, both Mirette and I got tired of reading Dr. Seuss every night. After a while, his books blend into one another. He definitely keeps the weird animal theme going from book to book and has a certain kind of voice and illustration that is all his own, which makes the books more fun to read in small doses.
With that said, here are some of the books we discovered that we both loved (and keep in mind Mirette is 2 1/2, so all these books get her seal of approval)! I've only included the ones you may not have heard of (not ones like One Fish. . . ).
And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street
Horton Hatches the Egg
McElligot's Pool
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
If I Ran the Zoo
If I Ran the Circus
Scrambled Eggs Super
Fox in Sox
and our best discovery of all, Daisy Head Maisy. It is not illustrated by Dr. Seuss. It's about a girl that has a daisy growing from her head. Now when playing outside, we put plants on our heads and say we are Daisy Head Maisy.
One other cool Dr. Seuss fact is that both The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham were written as challenges. In the case of the former, he was handed a list of words that children are supposed to know and had to create a story using only those words. He went with the first words on the list that rhymed, cat and hat. For Green Eggs and Ham, the challenge was to create a book using only fifty words. As you may be able to guess, he succeeded! Here are the words:
a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.
I also stumbled upon a PBS documentary about Dr. Seuss. It's really interesting. Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkOHQGA8hZc
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