I'm going to E1's class later today to read stories for Dr. Seuss day. Sometimes his tongue twisting rhymes leave me just plain exhausted! But they are her very favorite.
The Dr. Seuss book I like best is "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins," which is lesser-known. My favorite babysitter always brought it along when she came over and read it to us. I think my parents bought a copy too. I've never read it to my kids- I probably should.
A few years ago, we got the movie "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T" from the library. That is a crazy movie! Almost the entire musical is this dream sequence of this boy who doesn't want to practice the piano. Dr. Seuss wrote the script and lyrics and the sets are all very Seuss-ian. I guess it was supposed to be the next "Wizard of Oz"- a child's dream world- but when they first screened it, it frightened the audiences too badly. They cut a bunch out and released it, but it still flopped. I've heard that now it has cult status some places- showing like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." It is worth a look-see.
Hmm, never even heard of the book or the movie! Though, they read a bunch of Dr. Seuss books at the library for storytime today and I didn't know its was actually "Dr. Seuss day." Interesting.
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