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In this hilarious book, featuring three timeless fables, Dr. Seuss explores the pitfalls of growing too big for your boots!
With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranking among the UK’s top ten favourite children’s authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with nearly half a million books sold worldwide.
This delightful book forms part of the third stage in HarperCollins’ major Dr. Seuss rebrand programme. With the relaunch of six more titles in January 2004, such all-time favourites as The Lorax, The Foot Book and Yertle the Turtle boast bright new covers that incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels: Blue Back Books are for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books are for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books are for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. Yertle the Turtle and other stories belongs to the Yellow Back Book range.
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'Featuring three tales in one volume, and packed with zany artwork and rolling rhymes, this hilarious storybook will delight young children aged 3 and over.'
Between it’s pages the will meet King Yertle the Turtle who’s ambitions to be master of all he sees are thwarted by a turtle called Mack whose burping literally topples Yertle’s world. Then there is the overweening Gertrude McFuzz whose tail grows too big for her boots. Finally readers will meet a boastful rabbit and bear who soon find out that their bragging just serves to make them look foolish, as indeed bragging does to all of us!
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On the far-away Island of Sala-ma-Sond, Yertle the Turtle was king of the pond. Read the first page
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in avariety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute.
To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. Yertle the Turtle was one of her picks.
This book has three stories in it, each with the same theme: Making Yourself More Self-Important Is the Wrong Direction!
Those who are familiar with Dr. Seuss's works during World War II as a political cartoonist will recognize the Yertle the Turtle theme as part of his satire of fascist dictators.
Your child will meet a lot of bossy people in her or his life, and this book can help prepare the way for understanding that one must assert one's rights or be trampled on. The child who is a natural leader can also learn the lesson of not abusing others. This story is a fundamental one for a democracy and should be read by every child. You will want to discuss applications of the lesson, as well, with your child.
The drawings are very funny and will keep your child laughing throughout.
Gertrude McFuss is about the dangers of envy. She was a girl-bird with the smallest plain tail ever. She had just one droopy-drop feather. Her friend, Lolla-Lee-Lou, had two feathers . . . both of which were larger. Gertrude decided she must has two also.
Your child will undoubtedly develop some envy of another child at this age. This story can help you point out the dangers of envy, and the very real drawbacks of getting what you want in many cases. So if your child decides this story is funny (and he or she will), you can then switch over to examples relating to clothing, toys and so forth in the child's own life.
The Big Brag is about a rabbit who competes with a bear to see which animal is the best.
This story is obviously focused on the importance of letting your deeds speak for you. Children like to get into squabbles like this about their potential and ability, and your reading of this story can help avoid that.
These timeless lessons should be irresistible for your child!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This book is Dr Seuss at his best. There are three stories each with it's own moral: be happy with what you've got, don't be to greedy/jealous, and don't be too boastful. They all have the usual rhyming verse and humour, along with great stories. A must for all Seuss fans, even those of us who should be reading something a bit more mature!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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i have to say sad though it is this has been and will always be my favorite book. and in the words of lisa simpson "this is quite possibly the best book ever written on the subject of turtle stacking"
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Another classic from Dr Seuss
You can't really go wrong with Dr Seuss books. The style of writing enables young ones to learn how to read and spell with much humour. Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2009 by Mrs. Carrie Smith
Oh to be king... of all I can see.
Dr Seuss (Yertle the Turtle (and Other Stories))
A wonderful book, Such fun! For kids, Yes.
And for adults too! Read more
A wonderful book, Such fun! For kids, Yes.
And for adults too! Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2009 by T. Bluck
Pride Goeth Before the Fall
Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in avariety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. Read more
Published on 19 May 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Easily the finest book ever written on turtle stacking.
Dr. Seuss tops himself once again with this exciting tale of turtle stacking, a difficult and dangerous pastime, to say the least. Read more
Published on 30 Nov 1998
This is my favorite doctor seuss book.
If you are wondering whether or not to buy this book, buy it. I have had it read to me a bazillion times and still find it captivating. Everyone knows Dr. Read more
Published on 29 April 1998
Should be required reading at all levels of education
Yertle the Turtle's a marvelous book,
I'd say that you'd like to take a good look.
It's true, it's true, got's a moral or two,
Much more than others who... Read more
Published on 7 Feb 1997
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