Seuss couture?

Tonner Doll Company

Momma has no desire to add these fun dolls to our family, but they still made us both smile.

If you have a passion for fashion,
and colors galore,
you'll love this new Dr. Seuss line -
just wait and see what's in store!

"This high-fashion take on the colorful, poetic whimsy of Dr. Seuss is a marriage of what we do best: high fashion and pop culture.  What you see here is not a re-creation of the Seuss characters, per se, but instead, creations inspired by the colors and the shapes that are at the essence of what we all love about Dr. Seuss's art."

So, what do you think?

There is no one alive who is Youer than You

Happy 108th birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen name Dr. Seuss.

In 1954, the director of the education division at Houghton Mifflin compiled a list of 348 words he felt were important for first-graders to recognize and asked Seuss to write a book using only 250 those words that "children can't put down."

Nine months later, Seuss, using 236 of those words, completed The Cat in the Hat.

He eventually published 46 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of trisyllabic meter.

Seuss' birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association.
 

Many of Seuss' books express his views on social and political issues including the 1971 book The Lorax about environmentalism and anti-consumerism.

Coincidentally (I think not!) the 2012 moving picture version of The Lorax was released today.

In The Lorax, a 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.

I know what I'll be doing this weekend....

How the Grinch stole my heart

I can never quite decide which is my favorite classic Christmas cartoon: Charlie Brown vs. The Grinch.


How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is an animated television special  based upon the children's story written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss. 

Published as a book by Random House in 1957, and at approximately the same time in an issue of Redbook, the story of the Grinch criticizes the commercialization of Christmas and those who profit from it.

(Hmm, did Charlie Brown grow up to be the Grinch?) 

Directed by Chuck Jones, the special first aired on Dec. 18, 1966, and is one of the very few Christmas specials from the 1960s to still be shown regularly on television. 

Momma and I simply do not acknowledge the Nov. 17, 2000 feature-length version since We do not like it.