The Sneetches and Other Stories (平装) 0007158505

The Star-Bellied Sneetches have bellies with Stars, but the Plain-Bellied Sneetches have none upon thars! Rivalries rocket when Sylvester McMonkey McBean steps in to prey on their prejudices, but in the end we realise that prejudice is nothing more than a rediculous waste of time.With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide.As the first step in a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching 17 of Dr. Seuss's best-selling books, including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks.In response to consumer demand, the bright new cover designs incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels, with the standard paperbacks divided into three reading strands - Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. The Sneetches and Other Stories belongs to the Yellow Back Book range. .com Review "Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches / Had bellies with stars. / ThePlain-BellySneetches / Had none upon thars." This collection of four of Dr. Seuss'smostwinning stories begins with that unforgettable tale of the unfortunateSneetches, bamboozled by one Sylvester McMonkey McBean ("the Fix-it-upChappie"), who teaches them that pointless prejudice can be costly.Following the Sneetches, a South-Going Zax and a North-Going Zax seemdetermined to butt heads on the prairie of Prax. Then there's thetongue-twisting story of Mrs. McCave--you know, the one who had 23 sons andnamed them all Dave. (She realizes that she'd be far less confused had shegiven them different names, like Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face or ZanzibarBuck-Buck McFate.) A slightly spooky adventure involving a pair of hauntedtrousers--"What was I scared of?"--closes out the collection. Sneetchesand Other Stories is Seuss at his best, withdistinctively wacky illustrations and ingeniously weird prose. (Ages 4 to 8)--Paul Hughes--This text refers to the Library Binding edition. Review Dr. Seuss ignites a child's imagination with his mischievous characters and zany verses. The Express Theodor Seuss Geisel - better known to millions of his fans as Dr. Seuss - was born the son of a park superintendent in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904. After studying at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and later at Oxford University in England, he became a magazine humorist and cartoonist, and an advertising man. He soon turned his many talents to writing children's books, and his first book - And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street - was published in 1937. His greatest claim to fame was the one and only The Cat in the Hat, published in 1957, the first of a successful range of early learning books known as Beginner Books.

出版社	Picture Lions
作者	Dr. Seuss