Seuss teaches readers that success is within you, illustrating life’s inevitable highs and lows. Published in 1990, the year before Geisel's death, this book is the classic sendoff for kids of all ages, from kindergarteners to college students. The cautionary tale teaches young readers about the beauty of the natural world and their duty to protect it. "UNLESS someone like you.cares a whole awful lot.nothing is going to get better.It's not." In this book, Geisel warns of the dangers of mistreating the environment before environmentalism was a trend. Bricks and blocks on Knox on box.” 'The Lorax' (1971) In this silly book, Fox in Socks teaches Knox in a box hilarious tongue-twisters that are best read aloud, like “Socks on chicks and chicks on fox. The littlest readers learn their ABCs, from Aunt Annie's Alligator to a Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz with playful, nonsensical illustrations and text. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!' (1963) Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.” “You have 'em I'll entertain 'em." (When asked about having children of his own.)” “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. The other ending is unacceptable."” “I have a feeling if I could stay out of hospitals, I might live forever.” “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don’t mind.” “Think left and think right and think low and think high. I prefer to make my mistakes in private.” “I enjoy making a statement, but I don't think one has to always do so to feel worthwhile.” “Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'” “Let me think about it."” “All of my books are based on truth, an exaggerated truth.” “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” “In the interest of commerce, there's a happy ending. I get so frustrated I wish I could get rid of all the garbage of excess words I could draw what I want to say in a second.” “I'm honest enough with myself to know I wouldn't have written the Great American Novel, but I think I could have created some fine paintings.” “I don't like audiences. But a novelist's technique is putting those extraneous, nonessential things back in.” “Once in a while, I have to write something in an adult magazine. I spent all my time trying to get rid of extraneous words and boiling the thing down to the essentials. Kids can pick up on that kind of thing.” “I feel my greatest accomplishment was getting rid of Dick and Jane and encouraging students to approach reading as a pleasure, not a chore.” “I had no ability as a novelist. Once a writer starts talking down to kids, he's lost. “If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.” “I don't write for children, I write for people.
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