Trusting the instinctive mind of the child more than the instructed mind of adults, Seuss holds up before them the fissures within democracy and the thin line that separates it from fascism. A children's writer, he believed, served democracy by teaching kids to respect and trust their internal responses to an unjust world. For Seuss, the child was born in an Edenic state, outside of adult corruption yet already possessing the virtue of a democratic citizen and, at the same time, naturally resistant to propaganda.
Dr Seuss, as he is popularly known, donned many a hat in his lifetime - political cartoonist, film-maker, War-time propagandist and so on - but he was most successful in the role of a children's writer. This deceptively simple line best captures the tension that Theodor Seuss Geisel - who died 27 Septembers ago - explored in his works. Yet, each of them is an individual and, as such, different from one another. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish belongs to the Blue Back Book range.One fish two fish red fish blue fish 'One fish two fish red fish blue fish' (and every other kind of fish one can come up with in one's noggin) are all, at the end of the day, fish. In response to consumer demand, the bright new cover designs incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels, with the standard paperbacks divided into three reading strands - Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. Seuss's best-selling books, including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide.Īs part of a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins has relaunched Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over sixty years. With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Join us and celebrate this very special anniversary with this gorgeous new paperback edition.
Seuss paints a crazy world of singing Yings, boxing Goxes and seven-hump Wumps! This hilarious exploration of opposites, colours, numbers and nonsense is the perfect gift for children of any age, as Dr. From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere in this hilarious exploration of simple concepts from the irrepressible Dr.
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