Seuss

Dr. Seuss presents the letters and their sounds, and shows how the sounds join to form words.

Beginner's text describes all sorts of feet doing all sorts of things.

When a lazy bird hatching an egg wants a vacation, she asks Horton, the elephant, to sit on her egg--which he does through all sorts of hazards until he is rewarded for doing what he said he would

Advice in rhyme for proceeding in life; weathering fear, loneliness, and confusion; and being in charge of your actions.

The King, tired of rain, snow, sun, and fog, commands his magicians to make something else come down from the sky, but when oobleck falls, in sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the King and saves the kingdom

The Once-ler describes the results of the local pollution problem.

If Gerald McGrew ran the zoo, he'd let all the animals go and fill it with more unusual beasts--a ten-footed lion, an Elephant-Cat, a Mulligatawny, a Tufted Mazurka, and others.

Looking for a nicer place to live, the native of the Valley of Vung sets out for Solla Sollew.

A household of unusual creatures help beginning readers recognize common "household" words

Includes three humorous stories in verse; Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, and The Big Brag