!: Your Favorite Seuss - A Baker's Dozen by the One and Only Dr Seuss

"Your Favorite Seuss: A Baker's Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss" has provided my daughter and I many hours of enjoyment. We have a lot of the single editions of Dr. Seuss tales, but we have read ever story in this larger book numerous times as well. Yes, it is a bit heavy for her to hold, so I hold the book as we read. When she was younger, I read the stories to her, and she enjoyed following along enjoying them immensely. As she got older, she started to read the stories to me and had equally as much fun. She was reading these stories at five years old, and now that she is six, we still read them sometimes. I believe reading these and the other books helped her become a great reader for her age.

In this large hardcover volume, there are thirteen of the most popular Dr. Seuss stories. The stories included in this book are: And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, McElligot's Pool, If I Ran The Zoo, Horton Hears A Who, The Cat In The Hat, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Yertle The Turtle, Happy Birthday To You, Green Eggs And Ham, The Sneetches, Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, The Lorax, and Oh The Places You'll Go. Besides these thirteen great tales accompanies by the original drawings, there is an introduction by Janet Schulman describing who Dr. Seuss was and essays before each story. These essays and additional information about the famous author are not yet interesting to my daughter, but I enjoyed them.

Besides the fun characters and words found in the stories by Dr. Seuss, there are messages that are as relevant today as when they were written. The Sneetches illustrates the idiocy of thinking one race is superior to another, or in this Case, having a star on your belly or not being the determining factor of who is superior. And one could easily argue that the environmental message found in The Lorax is even more important now than ever before. I'm sort of glad this is one of my daughter's favorites.

The final pages list all of the books Dr. Seuss wrote and the year he wrote them. I didn't realize he wrote forty-three books between 1937 and 1990. Although when I read through the list, I know all the titles. I know many from when I was a kid, and I guess that's why I'm happy to share them with my daughter. I think this is a great book for any Dr. Seuss fan, young or old.