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I admit I have a love/hate attitude towards Dr. Suess books.
Love "Mr. Brown Can Moo"
Hate the knock-offs, like "Wish For a Fish".
Some of the illustrations are fun; some bug me. I don't get a warm, fuzzy feeling when I think of Dr. Suess books over all. I know that they were originally meant for new readers, but my kids never used them that way.
I am looking over my large collection of Dr. Suess books and trying to decide which to keep and which to let go....
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I would not consider every book of his a classic. Green Eggs and Ham, The Grinch, One Fish Two Fish, Hop on Pop, The Cat in the Hat--closer to classics, at least classic easy readers. Though, if I had to choose, I would rank other easy readers over Suess. Apparently Green Eggs and Ham was my favorite book before I could read and having it memorized led to my teaching myself to read,nso I may be biased. It isn't a huge favorite here, but I have a lot more by way of true classics for my own boys to choose from than I had as a child growing up.
We have one I picked up at a used sale called The Butter Battle that is clearly a political activist piece against the nuclear arms race. I hate it. I don't like for my childrens books to be overly "messagey" whether it is in that Victorian moralize everything way or the modern equivalent, I definitely don't care for them to be political, whether I agree with the politics or not. Many would consider The Lorax a children's classic, but I think it is the adults who like its message that love it more than the children.
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 I have a love-hate relationship with Dr. Seuss books too. The only one we kept is Hop on Pop. I just couldn't stand the others anymore 
Oh, and we also kept The Places You'll Go, since I gave it as a gift to my hubby years ago. 
I wouldn't call them classics though. But maybe they're considered classics because everyone knows them and they've lasted this long?
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Maybe you are right, Stef- they are just so well known that they have taken on classic (or maybe) cult status.
Lindsay- I am also ditching my Butter Battle Book. Not a Lorax fan, either.
On the fence about Horton Hears a Who. I like the pro-life message, but I find the book longish and even a little scary.
I also passionately hate the modern movie versions of Suess books.
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I dare to say it. I can't stand Dr. Seuss books. If the kids want to read Dr. Seuss, they know they better bring it to DH.
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Aside from Butter Batter, I only own the two that were mine when I was little. I will buy Hop on Pop this Fall to use with Bravewriter's The Wand. That's it. i suppose I must not consider them classics too much if I don't buy them!
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There's a few that I like.. but then my favorite book when I was little was Fox in Socks.
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I don't know as much about the CM criteria for "classic" but I do like Seuss. I grew up very close to the city he is from, so maybe that's part of the charm for me.
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I like the whimsical illustrations in his books.
I have only read the older books (the ones I received in a monthly subscription when I was 4 years old - I have them all, still). Most were fun to read to my children, except "Green Eggs and Ham," which was way, way too repetitive.
I think a true children's classic is fun to read aloud as well as to listen to. (Of course, young children love to hear the same books 5,000 times in a row, at which point no book is fun to read aloud!  ) I asked Dancing Daughter about her favorites, and she mentioned several titles she loved when she was young, but nothing by Dr. Seuss. Interesting.
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guitarnan wrote:
I like the whimsical illustrations in his books.
I have only read the older books (the ones I received in a monthly subscription when I was 4 years old - I have them all, still). Most were fun to read to my children, except "Green Eggs and Ham," which was way, way too repetitive.
I think a true children's classic is fun to read aloud as well as to listen to. (Of course, young children love to hear the same books 5,000 times in a row, at which point no book is fun to read aloud! ) I asked Dancing Daughter about her favorites, and she mentioned several titles she loved when she was young, but nothing by Dr. Seuss. Interesting.
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Further, I would say that a true classic is one I loved to hear as a child and would enjoy listening to again as an adult. I don't really get much of a kick out of Green Eggs and Ham anymore  Its repetitiveness is what makes it great for early readers. It is rather genius how he can tell such an elaborate story with so few words.
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