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Today, 2 March, is the anniversary of Dr. Seuss' birth. How many of you were encouragd to read by the books of this mad March Herr? (Kind of a YART, but not exactly)
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My first books were from the Cat in the Hat series. I can very clearly recall sitting next to the bookcase, where the CITH books were kept on the bottom shelf so I could reach them, and memorizing every word.
Forty years later, I'm still reading the same books, every night at bedtime.
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being new to the board, I have to ask: what does YART stand for?
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being new to the board, I have to ask: what does YART stand for?Oh, that's one of Dr. Seuss' characters! Oh, wrong, Geoff.... Yet Another Rehashed Topic is the official daffynition. It was a Yert in Dr. Seuss. Or is a yert where an Asian nomad lives? Oh, if I only had a brane...
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Yurt heading in the right direction, Geoff. I still love reading the great Dr. Seuss books. I have an adult friend who has memorized the Starbellied Sneetches and performs it for children and adults in the circle of stones with the stars overhead.
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Dr Seuss was one author I was never young enough to appreciate, I'm afraid. Although I recognise the cleverness of his phraseology and rhyming, it just holds no attractions for me. But then I learned to read using some very strange books ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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And somehow I can't see The Lorax being a big favourite of West coasters!Sorry, Maxie, that one's lost on me ... never read the book!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Well, I haven't told too many people this, but Dr. Seuss was a friend of a neighbor when my family lived in New York, and well, he actually read one of his stories to me when I was a tyke. My parents disagreed on which book it was and I was too young to remember, but both parents said the incident actually occurred.
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