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The Sneetches and Other Stories: Yellow Back Book (Dr Seuss - Yellow Back Book) (Dr. Seuss Yellow Back Books)

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Some of the Sneetches have bellies with stars, but the plain-bellied ones have none upon thars! But an unexpected visitor soon leads them to discover they’re not that different after all, in the first tale in this classic collection of stories. Panel discussion on "Civil and Human Rights Themes in Dr. Seuss' The Sneetches and Yertle the Turtle", New York Law School, March 1, 2013, C-SPAN Last but not least, in What Was I Scared of? the cute, little, nameless protagonist is afraid of a pair of pants that walks around by itself, because it's so different than anything he's ever seen before. When he realizes that the pants are as scared of him as he is of them, the two are able to offer comfort to one another and become friends. I thought this was another great story about the importance of accepting those who are different from ourselves.

I read this to my niece and nephew last night for a bedtime story. I chose it from Over Drive's Civil Rights & Human Rights (In memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. and in recognition of the National Day of Racial Healing, January 22, 2019) collection. At the beginning of the story, Sneetches with stars discriminate against and shun those without. An entrepreneur named Sylvester McMonkey McBean (calling himself the Fix-It-Up Chappie) appears and offers the Sneetches without stars the chance to get them with his Star-On machine, for three dollars. Sadly, the message of the uniting nature of our common humanity is lost amongst the insane babble of the media matrix.i106382275 |b1270001639614 |dguge |g- |m |h19 |x1 |t3 |i7 |j300 |k161101 |n10-03-2023 15:10 |o- |aE Seuss

i126179219 |b31526080316471 |depe |g- |m231209 |h29 |x6 |t5 |i29 |j52 |k190821 |n08-21-2023 20:09 |o- |aFAVORITE FRIENDS SEUSS The Sneetches is my absolute favourite Seuss story. The rhythm trumps all other Seuss stories, and when I am reading this out loud to my kids I joyfully shift from Star-belly Sneetch voices to Plain-belly Sneetch voices to Sylvester McMonkey McBean's voice without even a hint of having to think about the shift. Seuss's rhythm invites that. I can speed up to warp, I can slow down and leave an octo-pregnant pause, and still the rhythm is flawless. Plus, the story's pretty meaningful too. This is the perfect mix of fun, readability and content. Me loves it. Helen Palmer Geisel died in 1967. Theodor Geisel married Audrey Stone Diamond in 1968. Theodor Seuss Geisel died 24 September 1991.Tempting Fate: A rare positive example. When McBean is driving off with all of the money he earned from his star machine-gambit, he dismissively laughs to himself that the sneetches will never learn...but the narrator immediately says that McBean is quite wrong and the sneetches have indeed learned how stupid they've been to obsess over those stars and decide to forget about them and treat each other equally from then on. i42285306 |b1010001845218 |dasju |g- |m |h21 |x0 |t0 |i0 |j18 |k040325 |n10-07-2020 17:35 |o- |aEasy S496 Sn However, McBean does not share the prejudices of the Sneetches, and allows the recently starred Sneetches through this machine as well. Ultimately this escalates, with the Sneetches running from one machine to the next….

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