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Your Favorite Seuss: A Baker's Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss Review
Theodor Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) was born March 2, 1904, and died September 25, 1991. With introductory essays to each story by: Barbara Bader, Author and Critic Stan and Jan Berenstain, Creators of The Berenstain Bears Audrey Geisel, Widow of Dr. Seuss Peter Glassman, Children’s Bookseller Starr LaTronica, Children’s Librarian John Lithgow, Actor and Children’s Book Author Barbara Mason, Kindergarten Teacher Richard H. Minear, Author of Dr. Seuss Goes to War Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon Charles D. Cohen, Author of The Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and Nothing but the Seuss Pete Seeger, Folksinger Christopher Cerf, TV Writer, Composer, and Producer Lane Smith, Children’s Book Illustator User Submitted Your Favorite Seuss: A Baker's Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss ReviewsOctober 13, 2008 recommended Classical Seuss - which means a lot of fun for children as well as adults. The book itself is big enought for my 7 & 1/2 month old son to confortably sit on it. The only minus - too many black & white illustrations. October 2, 2008 not a very good collection My kids and I love Dr. Suess very much, and yet, I don't recommend this collection. First, not all of these stories are of the interesting ones. There are many stories here that are of the kind of the nonesense books, stories that don't really have a plot, or a moral, or something changing, or any real caracter. I am talking about stories like "If I ran the zoo", "Things you see on Mullberry street", "McEligot's Pool". They mostly talk about all kinds of different funny animals. My kids like them, but I die of bordom when I read them, and I usually am fascinated with kids stories. So this book is a mixture of the two types of Dr. Suess's stories - the ones without plot, and the interesting ones with the plot, like "Yertle the Turtle", "Horton hears a who" and a few more. This is definitely not a collection of all of Dr. Suess's best stories. I have a feeling that the editors did not want to really collect all the interesting stories, becuase then we would not buy many books. There are many important stories that were left out. Second, the articles in front of each story are not interesting. They are mostly talking about how much these people love Dr. Suess. Not much to really learn about Dr. Suess or his stories. So these articles don't add much value. The pictures from Dr. Suess's desk are nice but not enough to justify the price or weight of this book. The conclusion: you get a few interesting stories, and not much more, for a high price, and end up with a very heavy book. September 22, 2008 This is a thick & heavy "collectible" edition of 13 stories with extras... Every few weeks, I read one of these stories to my family after dinner as we sit at the table. Our kids are "older" than Dr. Seuss now but we have been enjoying re-visiting the memories of yesteryear as well as talking about the lessons in the stories that fit with junior high and high school age realities. Having a page of background about Dr. Seuss at the beginning of each story has been special as well ~ we've enjoyed getting to know more about this delightful man and his life. If you are buying Dr. Seuss to read to younger kids, you might prefer to buy the individual books which would be lighter, easier to hold, and thus more accessible relative to the pictures and the whole experience for the little one. But for our family, this volume has been really quite perfect :) Bon Appetit! September 15, 2008 Dr Seuss collection Much more than a humorist or fanciful children's writer, Dr Seuss was ahead of his time...his social and political commentaries are much wider in scope than most people realize. He should be required reading through middle school--even beyond. His simple themes and observations ask the larger questions every society should continually ask and demand a commitment from the reader to chose a point of view. July 14, 2008 Great Seuss collection This is my 3 y.o.'s favorite book, he calls it "the big book" and almost every night he asks for it when it's time for story-telling, even though he has a big collection of books which he loves, including many Seuss books, none can top this one. This is a great book, it allows you to have lots of Seuss stories all gathered up even if you don't have a lot of space in your house, and it's great for traveling because you can take so many stories with you in one single volume. Plus, they have kept all the illustrations, even though sometimes they may crowd up two into one page because of the length of the volume. Still, it's a great buy, I highly recommend it. In my opinion there's no higher recommendation that the love my son has for this book. :-) July 10, 2008 Your Favorite Dr. Seuss We all love Dr. Suess and I thought this would be a great deal to get 13 stories to read to my 1 and 3 year olds for bedtime stories. The problem is that the book is too big to cuddle up with on the couch with two little ones. We returned it and bought a few of the smaller, 1 story, Dr. Suess classics. July 3, 2008 Great for the price! I honestly have no problems with this book...its great!!! Its great to have Dr. Seuss back in my life now at 27... June 5, 2008 Changes in page layouts are disappointing. Since this is a dozen stories, it's expected this is going to be a big book. The facts and info on each story are quite interesting and really the major selling point for this book. The major disappointment was the change in page layout. If you compare it to the single books, the pages are just laid out differently. In a couple stories, there's a focal point in the story that is buried in the crease because the of the page changes. If they hadn't dont that, this would be an awesome book. The facts and info they include with the book make it worth keeping on my bookshelf, but I read from different compilations. Six by Seuss and A Hatful of Suess are two collections of multiple stories in a single book that preserve the original page layout. Both are available here on Amazon. Six by Seuss: A Treasury of Dr. Seuss Classics A Hatful of Seuss: Five Favorite Dr. Seuss Stories June 2, 2008 Perfect Gift -Seuss Baker's Dozen I had a hard time giving this up as a gift. I paged thru it and remembered all the funny stories i read growing up as a kid. And there were a few that I had never seen before. When the gift was opened at the party, everyone smilled and thought out of all the toys the child received, this was the best. I agree! Also...this was way cheaper than the local bookstores. Cheaper and in perfect condition (no previously browsed book ever received by AMAZON.COM). May 22, 2008 great i love to have all of the stories in one big book.. it saves so much space on my shelf! For more Your Favorite Seuss: A Baker's Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss reviews click here.
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