![]() ![]() When Mack finally collapses and the turtles come tumbling down, your young one will have learned something about authoritarianism and dictators. ![]() The turtle at the bottom, Mack, suffers the most and tells the king he’s in pain and hungry. He wants to reach the moon, so he makes his turtle subjects form a ladder so he can reach it. Yertle the Turtle is about King Yertle who decides that he isn’t happy with his kingdom, despite the fact that he has everything he needs. This book is mostly known for its Yertle the Turtle story, but it also contains Gertrude McFuzz, which tackles greed and vanity, and The Big Brag. Seuss’s greatest hits to find the books with the best messages and life lessons within them. ![]() While some of them contain harmful stereotypes that reflect the racism of the time and the author’s own prejudices, there are still good messages in the good books. The author wrote nearly 50 books before he died in 1991 at the age of 87. ![]() But the reason why Seuss has endured - despite some outlier stinkers in his oeuvre - is that the best books teach life lessons and make comments on climate change, fascism, and greed. Seuss, - AKA Theodor Seuss Geisel - changed children’s literature forever with his whimsical characters, unique use of words. ![]()
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