Was Dr Seuss on something?
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I was reading to Elana before she went to bed tonight - Natalie's school had a fete on the weekend and Val (nick's mum) was in charge of the bookstall - so she gave us some of the books that were left for Elana.
One of them was One fish, two fish, red fish blue fish. -- Which I'm sure I must have read as a kid but I didn't really remember it -- I know I only had one Dr Seuss book as a child -- and I only liked one -- and they weren't the same -- I had the Cat in the hat comes back and I loved - still do Are you my mother.
So I'm reading this book to Elana because parents around the world through the ages have read Seuss to their children and I can't believe the nonsense I'm reading -- "But we know a man called Mr Gump Mr Gump has a seven hump Wump. So... if you like to go Bump! Bump! just jump on the hump of the Wump of Gump
What the???
Zans for Cans and Yinks that drink pink ink and yellow socks to box your gox
Sigh - I'm going to buy Possum Magic and John Brown Rose & The Midnight Cat (but not till she's 6 or older -- there's alot of themes in that book) - two of my favourites -- that make sense
And for a rhyming book with a moral I'll get her the Elephant & the Bad Baby
No more Seuss -- its all very nonsensical and makes me wonder what he was on - I wonder if he knew Lewis Carroll
One of them was One fish, two fish, red fish blue fish. -- Which I'm sure I must have read as a kid but I didn't really remember it -- I know I only had one Dr Seuss book as a child -- and I only liked one -- and they weren't the same -- I had the Cat in the hat comes back and I loved - still do Are you my mother.
So I'm reading this book to Elana because parents around the world through the ages have read Seuss to their children and I can't believe the nonsense I'm reading -- "But we know a man called Mr Gump Mr Gump has a seven hump Wump. So... if you like to go Bump! Bump! just jump on the hump of the Wump of Gump
What the???
Zans for Cans and Yinks that drink pink ink and yellow socks to box your gox
Sigh - I'm going to buy Possum Magic and John Brown Rose & The Midnight Cat (but not till she's 6 or older -- there's alot of themes in that book) - two of my favourites -- that make sense
And for a rhyming book with a moral I'll get her the Elephant & the Bad Baby
No more Seuss -- its all very nonsensical and makes me wonder what he was on - I wonder if he knew Lewis Carroll
- I would argue that a great percentage of authors and musicians have dabbled so to say, at some point in their lives - and if some dude who came up with a cat in a hat wasn't reeeeeeallll fuckin' high on drugs, then my name isn't Muggaz 
One of my favorite children's books is Tough Boris . . . have you read that one? A bit old for Elana maybe, but an excellent book for teaching about loss and grief. We also have Koala Lou and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partidge. Great books. I remember reading Possum Magic, but I don't think we have it . . . I may have to go buy it. One Dr. Seuss one I liked was Oh the Places You Will Go. It was a cute book. 