- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks; (Reissue) edition (1 Oct 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0001953168
- ISBN-13: 978-0001953161
- Product Dimensions: 27.6 x 20.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Collected into one volume are four of Dr Seuss's best-loved stories: McElligot's Pool, The Zax, The Lorax and Scrambled Eggs Super.
They are stories for parents and children to share.
About the Author
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 ranked among the UK’s top ten favourite children’s authors, Dr. Seuss is a global best-seller, with over half a billion books sold worldwide.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Don't get me wrong - I love Dr. Seuss. This anthology is a classic - but mainly due to the strength of "The Lorax", which along with the two Cat in the Hat books are surely his finest work.
This beautifully presented book contains three long stories, McElligot's Pool, The Lorax and Scrambled Eggs Super; and one very short story - The Zax. The first two are illustrated in full colour, whilst the the latter have a limited colour palette of three or four colours. Illustrations are generally excellent and fun.
Pros - The Lorax is a very very fine childrens' story - you will have to go far and wide to find a better one. The environmental theme is there, but the story is so good that children won't notice until they have the time and faculties to think about it.
The Zax is also a very good, if somewhat succinct story. It's good for compromising with young children about having two stories read to them.
Cons - Scrambled Eggs Super and McElligots Pool are only so-so. These two come from the "flight-of-fancy" school of Dr. Seuss stories, which are a long long way behind the tales like Cat in the Hat and The Lorax. You basically get a premise such as fish, or eggs, or a circus - followed by about twenty to thirty pages of nonsensical descriptions of wild and wacky beasts. This is fun and well written, but ultimately a little boring and doesn't really take you anywhere.
Still, it's better to buy this anthology and have all four than to buy just the books you want seperately. Furthermore, I'm not sure that the Lorax is even available in hardback. It's strangely, also quite rare outside of this edition.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A fantastic book which collects four very different stories, sharing the Dr. Seuss mixture of humour, stimulating imagination, vivid, poetic language and gentle lessons to learn. Suitable for kids who have grown out of The Cat in the Hat and want more, and a delight to read for adults.
In McGelligot's Pool, the first story, a young boy is fishing in an unpromising pool, with an adult sneering at his chances of catching anything. He responds to this by embarking on a brilliant journey of imagination of the wild things he might catch if he keeps trying, showing the man what a little imagination and faith can do to conquer adult cynicism.
The Lorax is one of our favourites of all, and is that rare thing: an environmental fable that is powerful without being overblown. Dr. Seuss illustrates the damage caused by greed without lapsing into tiresome exaggeration and without demonising and de-humanising the perpetrators. Modern purveyors of environmental doom-mongering (Colin Thompson's Tower to the Sun being surely the daftest) should take note.
The other two stories fill in the gaps nicely; the Zax a short and simple fable warning against dogmatic instransigence, and Scrambled Eggs Super another child's imaginative journey. Wonderful imagery and use of rhyme and language throughout, like Edward Lear but with a coherent story to boot.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a brilliant book, my kids enjoyed it just as much as I did 20 years ago!
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