Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
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Book Reviews of Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Book Review: Think Outside the Box.
Summary: 5 Stars
Dr. Seuss is considered to be one of America's best "children's" authors. However, I don't think the good doctor ever intended to write solely for children. Some of his books were clearly written for youngsters, but most of them, I believe, were written for everyone.Nowhere is this more apparent than in OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! The book is often given as a gift to students as they graduate. But the messages the book contains aren't just for the transitional times of our lives. They are things to remember wherever we go, and whatever we do.
Children can profit from reading and listening to the book being read. And sure, the book is filled with the usual zany illustrations and a few never-before-heard-of creatures, situations, and places that kids will enjoy looking at and which may possibly ignite their imagination. But make no mistake, this isn't really a children's book. Kids should be free to be kids and it is only when they are forced to grow up that locations like Lurch, Slump, and The Waiting Place become familiar places. Overall, children cannot understand and comprehend the complexities of life that are described in the book; only adults can do that. Nevertheless, like all great "children's" literature, this is a story for adults, but filled with lessons that if we remember and have ingrained within us when we are young, it will help us succeed 98 and 3/4ths of the time.
Book Review: Every Graduate Needs This Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is wasted on ages pre-school to three. Never has there been a clearer, truer, more relevant commentary on life. The irony is gentle without a trace of bitterness, the humor honest and warm, the lessons so subtle they will sink in without sounding preachy or arrogant.
Examples:
"Fame! You'll be famous as famous can be,
with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.
Except when they don't.
Because, sometimes, they won't.
I'm afraid that some times
you'll play lonely games too.
Games you can't win
'cause you'll play against you."
"You'll get mixed up, of course,
as you already know.
You'll get mixed up
with many strange birds as you go.
So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life's
a Great Balancing Act.
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left."
This book may well be one of the greatest treasures of twentieth century literature. Seriously. Buy it for anyone who needs a helping hand through life, anyone who needs a better grasp on what they are going to face in the real world, anyone who is in a slump or a depression and needs to see that they are not alone and eventually this too will pass.
Book Review: A special gift for graduates
Summary: 5 Stars
It's graduation time, so I'll be buying a copy of Oh, the Places You'll Go! for the two high school graduates we know this year. It's a great book for these young adults as they begin a new life passage. It's all about going out and finding your way in life, weathering its storms, and being in charge of and taking responsibility for your life and how it turns out. It begins...
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!
Isn't that a great beginning for anyone starting anew? Remember the old saying, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life?" It certainly fits here. This book was originally published in 1990 and has more text than many of Dr. Seuss books that are aimed at very young audiences (I know a 90-year-old who still loves Dr. Seuss's books). The book is 56 pages long (unnumbered) with illustrations as bizarre and wonderful as only Theodor Seuss Geisel could draw them. I also appreciate that on the back cover of this book is the entire list of Dr. Seuss books in the order in which they were written.
Carolyn Rowe Hill
Book Review: Move over Who Moved my Cheese - Dr Suess did it better
Summary: 5 Stars
When I was a little girl, I thought Dr. Suess was Hop on Pop, Green Eggs and Ham, the Grinch, and Horton Hears a Who. I had no idea that he was so prolific, nor did I know he wrote books with political and ideological messages. So I was bowled over when I discovered this timeless classic, and then wondered why it hadn't been required reading somewhere along the line.The message - an exciting world of possibilities just waiting for you to make your mark on them, tempered with the warning that obstacles will happen - is great for kids, but probably even more poignant for adults, young and old, who are on their way and may have encountered "the waiting place" or other such snares. Couple an inspiring message with Dr. Suess' colorful rhythm and rhyme, and you have a book that is far more readable, and certainly more memorable than the corporate megalith, Who Moved My Cheese.
If I had my way, this book would be required reading for every high school senior, about to enter the world (and maybe for all those corporate mice stuck in the "waiting place" looking for their cheese).
Book Review: Great for any stage in life...
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was read to the entire kindergarten class by the principal on the first day of school. Then, on graduation day, our old elementary principal had become our superintendant. As part of her speech at graduation, she again chose to read this touching and classic Seuss. Many of us cried at this point, realizing that we really hadn't moved so far ahead, but more like come full circle. I would highly recommend (and hope that someone decides to do so at my reception) that this book be read as part of a wedding reception speech. It really does apply to marriage in ways. This story will be read to my children the day they are born, brought home from the hospital, baptized, each birthday, when they begin and graduate pre-school, begin each year of school, graduate from high school, and each and every stepping stone. They will all have their own copy, and they will learn over time about how that it really does apply to EVERYTHING, from their birth, to school, to employment and also to the births of their own children. I highly recommend this book to EVERYONE!