While writing books for children, Dr. Suess wrote life lessons for adults. In the same way Jesus's parables were simple tales that illuminated complex truths, so do certain Suess stories shed light on controversial issues of our time:
The Lorax
-- conservation -- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not." We should all speak for the
trees and the Swomee-Swans and the Humming-Fish and the...
Unless, unless, unless...
The Sneetches -- race relations -- how important are abdominal stars and how should we treat Sneetches with or without stars upon thars?
Green Eggs and Ham
-- the willingness to try -- haven't we
all made up our minds about something we know nothing about?
Yes, perhaps I'm shovelling it a bit deep, but I really think the world would be a better place if more of us would take a Lorax/Sneetch refresher course to heart.
But if you think these paragraphs were too much, try
Freud does Suess
on for size!
Then for a laugh try
Suess does Shakespeare
.
For all manner of Suess-related sites, try
Cyber-Suess
.
If you're a "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" fan and are
willing to step into the kitchen for some Green Eggs and Turkey Ham while this
animated "DCR" downloads,
try this
.
TNG fans, try
Suess does Star Trek TNG
.
B5 fans, try
Suess does Babylon 5
. (It's not as good as the above, but I'll put it here for Donald.) If only
the cool B5 background loaded as swiftly as the grody header image. Blech.
Our Thing 1 and Thing 2: Click to see the full-sized image.
Our Cats in Hats, "in France Chat Chapeau ", 8-97
Nikki left, Kilory right
I made these outfits, but I can't sew for all Suess fans, so visit Suesswear
Nikki left, Kilory right, with Pawpaw-grown pumpkins
Kilory reads to Crinklebine the fish
We hope you enjoy your visit.