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National Read Across America Day is celebrated on Dr. Seuss's birthday on March 2.

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

Seuss, Dr. - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding

Celebrate the 75th birthday of this classic treatise on bullying by Dr. Seuss with our new foil-covered, color-enhanced Anniversary Edition! As topical today as when it was first published in 1938, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is the story of a young peasant (the same as in Bartholomew...
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And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Dr. Seuss's very first book for children! From a mere horse and wagon, young Marco concocts a colorful cast of characters, making Mulberry Street the most interesting location in town. Dr. Seuss's signature rhythmic text, combined with his unmistakable illustrations, will appeal...
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck:

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

In this Caldecott Honor-winning picture book, join Bartholomew Cubbins in Dr. Seuss's classic tale of one king's magical mishap. Bored with rain, sun, fog, and snow, King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. What he gets...
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The Big Green Book of Beginner Books

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

What could make a better present than a Beginner Book written by Dr. Seuss? Six of them—for less than the price of two! We’ve taken the complete text and art of Great Day for Up! (illustrated by Quentin Blake); I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! (illustrated by James Stevenson);...
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The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories

Charles D. Cohen - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Its the literary equivalent of buried treasure! Seuss scholarcollector Charles D. Cohen has hunted down seven rarely seen stories by Dr. Seuss. Originally published in magazines between 1948 and 1959, they include The Bear, the Rabbit, and the Zinniga-Zanniga about a rabbit who is saved...
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The Butter Battle Book

Theodor Seuss Geisel - Random House
Format: Print book

The Butter Battle Book, Dr. Seuss's classic cautionary tale, introduces readers to the important lesson of respecting differences. The Yooks and Zooks share a love of buttered bread, but animosity brews between the two groups because they prefer to enjoy the tasty treat differently....
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The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss - Random House
Format: Library Binding

Join the Cat in the Hat as he makes learning to read a joy! It's a rainy day and Dick and Sally can't find anything to do . . . until the Cat in the Hat unexpectedly appears and turns their dreary afternoon into a fun-filled extravaganza! This beloved Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss, which also...
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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers; Book Club Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Cat in the Hat returns for more out-of-control fun in this wintry Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. Its a snowy day and Dick and Sally are stuck shoveling . . . until the Cat in the Hat arrives to liven things up to say the least!. Featuring the Cats helpers Little Cat A, Little Cat B, and so on, and ending...
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Daisy-Head Mayzie

Seuss, Dr. - Random House
Format: Hardcover

When a daisy suddenly sprouts from the top of Mayzie McGrew's head, she is faced with her classmates' taunts, her parents' dismay, and a publicity agent's greed. How poor Mayzie learns that love is more important than fame and fortune makes an endearing morality tale for our time--and...
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Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

Seuss, Dr. - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Seuss's irrepressible optimism is front and center in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? "When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue,when you start to get mad . . .you should do what I do!"So begins the terrific advice of the wise old man in the Desert...
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Dr. Seuss's ABC (Beginner Books, I Can Read It All By Myself)

Dr. Seuss - Random House / Beginner Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Arguably the most entertaining alphabet book ever written, this classic Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss is perfect for children learning their ABCs. Featuring a fantastic cast of zany characters - from Aunt Annie's alligator to the Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, with a lazy lion licking a lollipop...
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Dr. Seuss's Horse Museum

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A never-before-published Dr. Seuss book about creating and looking at art! Based on a manuscript and sketches discovered in 2013, this book is like a visit to a museum - with a horse as your guide! Explore how different artists have seen horses, and maybe even find a new way of looking...
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Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Celebrate sleep with Dr. Seusss classic rhyming good-night picture book. Van Vleck, a very small bug, is getting sleepy, and his yawncontagious as yawns aresets off a chain reaction, making all those around him feel sleepy, too! With typically Seussian nods to alarm clocks, sleepwalking,...
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The Foot Book

Dr. Seuss. - Random House
Format: Book

Beginning readers will love this foot-filled Bright and Early Book classic by Dr. Seuss! From left feet to right feet and wet feet to dry feet, there are so many feet to meet. The Foot Book will have young readers eager to step into the wonderful world of Dr. Seuss. Combining brief and funny...
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Fox in Socks

Theodor Seuss Geisel - Random House
Format: Book

Fox in Socks celebrates 50 years of troubling tongues! This classic Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss features silly tongue twisters that will have young readers--and their parents--giggling with glee. When a fox in socks meets Knox in a box, hilarity ensues. Add chicks with bricks and blocks...
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Gerald McBoing Boing

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In 1950, Theodor Geisel - known to the world even then as Dr. Seuss - met up with a friend who worked for a new animation studio called United Productions of America. "UPA has a fresh outlook," the friend said. Could Seuss write something new and different for them Something that...
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Great Day for Up

Seuss Dr. - Seedlings Braille Books for Children
Format: Book

The meanings of "up" are conveyed with merry verse and illustrations in a happy book that celebrates the joy of life.
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Green Eggs and Ham

Dr. Seuss - Beginner Books/Random House
Format: Audiobook

"Do you like green eggs and ham?" asks Sam-I-am in this Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. In a house or with a mouse? In a boat or with a goat? On a train or in a tree? Sam keeps asking persistently. With unmistakable characters and signature rhymes, Dr. Seuss's beloved favorite has cemented...
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Happy Birthday to You!

Dr. Seuss - Random House
Format: Print book

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" Since 1959, Happy Birthday to You! - Dr. Seuss's joyous ode to individuality - has allowed readers to experience firsthand the thrill of celebrating a birthday as it is done in Katroo....
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A Hatful of Seuss: Five Favorite Dr. Seuss Stories: Horton Hears A Who! / If I Ran the Zoo / Sneetches / Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book / Bartholomew and the Oobleck

Seuss, Dr. - Random House
Format: Book

This elegant bind-up copy consists of complete versions of Bartholomew and the Oobleck, If I Ran the Zoo, Horton Hears a Who, The Sneetches and Other Stories, and Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book. An exceptional gift to give and receive.
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Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!

Seuss Dr. - Knopf
Format: Print book

Started by Dr. Seuss, finished by Jack Prelutsky, and illustrated by Lane Smith, Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! is a joyous ode to individuality starring unsinkable teacher Miss Bonkers and the quirky Diffendoofer School (which must prove it has taught its students how to think--or have them...
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Hop on Pop

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

This classic Beginner Book makes an ideal gift for Seuss fans and is an especially good way to show Pop some love! Loved by generations, this "simplest Seuss for youngest use" is a Beginner Book classic. See Red and Ned and Ted and Ed in a bed. And giggle as Pat sits on a hat and on a cat and on a bat . . . but a cactus?...
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Horton Hatches the Egg

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

It's the talk of the jungle when an elephant hatches an egg. Extravagant nonsense and rollicking verse.  
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Horton Hears A Who!

Dr. Seuss - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Horton is back! After his first appearance in Horton Hatches the Egg, everyone's favorite elephant returns in this timeless, moving, and comical classic in which we discover that "a person's a person, no matter how small." Thanks to the irrepressible rhymes and eye-catching...
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Horton and the Kwuggerbug and more Lost Stories

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A follow-up to The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories by Dr. Seuss! A new Dr. Seuss book! This follow-up to The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories features familiar Seussian faces and places - including Horton the Elephant, Marco, Mulberry Street, and a Grinch - as well as an introduction...
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Classic Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate Dr. Seuss Christmas classic -- no holiday season is complete without the Grinch, Max, Cindy-Lou, and all the residents of Who-ville!"Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot . . . but the Grinch, who lived just north of Who-ville, did NOT!"...
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Hunches in Bunches

Seuss Dr. - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback

What's a person to do when there is so much to do? Dr. Seuss adds his signature spin to the age-old dilemma of indecisiveness in his rhyming picture-book classic Hunches in Bunches. Go outside, play video games, eat a pizza, do homework? Whether you have a "four-way hunch,"...
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I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!

Seuss Dr. - Beginner Book
Format: Book

"A rhyming story that is full of laughs. 'The alarm can ring. The birds can peep....Today's the day I'm going to sleep,' says a lazy boy one morning, and despite a pail of icy water, television coverage, and the arrival of the Marines, he vows to stay in bed--and he does!...
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I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Audiobook

Dr. Seuss and the Cat show that reading is fun—even when you don’t look at the words!—in this classic Beginner Book. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Whether reading in bed or in purple...
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I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A comic classic by Dr. Seuss about overcoming life's obstacles that's the perfect gift for recent grads!Dr. Seuss tackles the struggles of everyday life's - difficult people, bullies, bad weather, political unrest, even crowds - in the rhyming picture book I Had Trouble in Getting...
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I Wish That I Had Duck Feet

Theo LeSieg - Beginner Books
Format: Print book

A young boy weighs the pros and cons of possessing various animal appendages - such as a duck's feet, a deer's antlers, a whale's spout, an elephant's trunk, and a long, long tail - only to decide that he's better off just being himself. A zany, insightful story that...
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If I Ran the Circus

Seuss Dr.
Format: Book

Step right up for Dr. Seuss's classic rhyming picture-book tale of young Morris McGurk's big circus dreams. This circus has more than a mere lion tamer and trapeze artist! At the Circus McGurkus, you'll be intrigued by the wink-hooded Hoodwink, terrified by the Spotted Atrociou
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If I Ran the Zoo

Seuss, Dr. - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Animals abound in Dr. Seuss's Caldecott Honor-winning picture book If I Ran the Zoo. Gerald McGrew imagines the myriad of animals he'd have in his very own zoo, and the adventures he'll have to go on in order to gather them all. Featuring everything from a lion with ten feet...
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In a People House (Bright & Early Books(R))

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers; Later Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

When a spunky mouse invites a passing bird to see what's inside a People House, chaos ensues while beginning readers learn the names of 65 common household items—and that people are generally not pleased to find mice and birds in their houses! A super simple, delightfully silly...
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The King's Stilts

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A seventy-five-year-old King gets new vintage cover art for his anniversary! Celebrate the 75th birthday of Dr. Seuss's classic treatise on the importance of a balanced life with our Anniversary Edition featuring cover art from the books original publication! A Seussian spin...
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The Lorax

- Wings Books,US
Format: Hardcover

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Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!

Dr. Seuss - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In merry verse and illustrations, Marvin is asked to leave by every conceivable means of transportation.  
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McElligot's Pool

Seuss, Dr. - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding

Imagination runs wild in this Caldecott Honor-winning tale featuring Dr. Seuss's inimitable voice and hysterical illustrations. The first Seuss title to feature full-color art on every other page, this adventurous picture book tells of Marco-who first imagined an extraordinary parade...
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Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?

Seuss Dr. - Random House
Format: Print book

Kids will love this noise-filled Bright and Early Book classic from the one and only Dr. Seuss! Mr. Brown is a sound-making wonder! He can hoo hoo like an owl and buzz buzz like a bee. It is so much fun to make noises that you hear every day, like moo and tick-tock....
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My Many Colored Days

Dr. Seuss - Knopf
Format: Book

Accompanying a manuscript Dr. Seuss wrote in 1973, was a letter outlining his hopes of finding "a great color artist who will not be dominated by me." The late Dr. Seuss saw his original text about feelings and moods as part of the "first book ever to be based on beautiful...
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Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Dr. Seuss - Random House
Format: Print book

A perennial favorite, Dr. Seuss's wonderfully wise graduation speech is the perfect send-off for children starting out in the world, be they nursery school, high school, or college grads! From soaring to high heights and seeing great sights to being left in a Lurch on a prickle-ly perch,...
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Oh, Say Can You Say?

Seuss Dr. - Beginner Books
Format: Book

Tongue twisters abound in this classic Dr. Seuss Beginner Book! "Bed Spreaders spread spreads on beds. Bread Spreaders spread butter on breads. And that Bed Spreader better watch out how he's spreading . . . or that Bread Spreader's sure going to butter his bedding."...
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Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Book

The possibilities are endless in Dr. Seuss’s classic Beginner Book! Young readers will delight in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! which celebrates the imagination and encourages young readers to think . . . about thinking! “Think left and think right and think low and think high....
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On Beyond Zebra! (Classic Seuss)

Dr. Suess - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Illus. in color. "Children will be intrigued and delighted with the nonsensical alphabet that begins after Z."Format: Hardcover, 60pp. ISBN: 0394800842 Publisher: Random House, Incorporated Pub. Date: May 1971 Recommend Age Range: 4 to 7
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One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (Beginner Books(R))

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding

Count and explore the zany world and words of Seuss in this classic picture book. From counting to opposites to Dr. Seusss signature silly rhymes, this book has everything a beginning reader needs! Meet the bumpy Wump and the singing Ying, and even the winking Yink who drinks pink ink....
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Scrambled Eggs Super

Seuss, Dr. - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

The story of Peter T. Hooper's search for different, exciting eggs and his new recipe for scrambled eggs
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Six by Seuss: A Treasury of Dr. Seuss Classics

Seuss, Dr. - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Seuss's magic elixir may--or may not--prolong life, but it is a fact that it makes you feel a whole lot better! Here in one glorious volume are six of the good doctor's best prescriptions. Not a word or a picture has been omitted or changed. Ranging from his very first book,...
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The Sneetches and Other Stories

Seuss Dr. - Random House Inc.
Format: Book

Dr. Seuss creates another timeless picture-book classic with The Sneetches and Other Stories. Are you a Star-Belly Sneetch or a Plain-Belly Sneetch? This delightful book contains four tales with deliciously subtle takes on how silly it is to be, well, silly. "The Sneetches," "The...
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There's a Wocket in My Pocket

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers

In this silly Bright and Early Book classic by Dr. Seuss, a young boy goes exploring in his house and finds an array of fun characters! Are you certain there's a Jertain in the curtain? Or have you ever had a feeling there's a Geeling on the ceiling? From the pesky Nooth Grush on a tooth...
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Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose

Dr. Seuss - Random House
Format: Library Binding

Join one of Dr. Seuss's most giving characters in the classic picture book Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose. Poor Thidwick's generosity proves the adage that no good deed goes unpunished, and soon everyone, from a tiny Bingle Bug to a huge bear, is taking advantage of our antlered...
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The Tooth Book

Seuss Dr. - Random House
Format: Book

Illus. in full color. "Rhymes, in typical LeSieg style, about who has teeth, who doesn't and how to keep the ones you have. Roy McKie's bright cartoons and the text's rhythms will make this popular with the missing-tooth set."--School Library Journal.
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What Pet Should I Get?

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding

A never-before-seen picture book by Dr. Seuss! This never-ever-before-seen picture book by Dr. Seuss about making up one's mind is the literary equivalent of buried treasure! What happens when a brother and sister visit a pet store to pick a pet? Naturally, they can't choose just...
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Yertle the Turtle (Classic Seuss)

Dr. Seuss - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding

Three modern fables in humorous pictures and verse.
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Biographies

The Boy on Fairfield Street

Kathleen Krull - Random House
Format: Book

Award-winning author Kathleen Krull zeros in on the formative first 22 years of the life of Ted Geisel. This is the first picture book biography of Dr. Seuss, written especially for his young fans who want to know what made him tick. The animals in the zoo that his father ran and his fondness...
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Dr. Seuss from Then to Now

Dr. Seuss
Format: Book

Published in conjunction with the first retrospective exhibit of the sixty-year career of the Pulitzer-Prize winning author-illustrator, this compendium of Seuss covers his work from his early years in advertising to the publication of "You're Only Old Once!"
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Dr. Seuss We Love You (Reaching Your Goal Series)

Patricia Stone Martin - Rourke Pub Group
Format: School & Library Binding

A brief biography of Theodor Geisel who, under the name Dr. Seuss, gained fame as an author and illustrator of books for children. Includes advice on setting and reaching goals.
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Who Was Dr. Seuss?

Janet B Pascal - ‎Penguin Young Readers Group; Illustrated edition
Format: Paperback

Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving personality. He often threw dinner parties where guests wore outrageous hats! And he donned quirky hats when thinking up ideas for books- like his classic The Cat in the Hat. This biography, with...
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