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    <body><![CDATA[SUMMARY<br/>This collection of short stories touches on themes like the value of diversity, the get-nowhere-fast of stalemates, the value of individuality, and confronting fears.  There are two kinds of Sneetches in The Sneetches:  those who have stars on their bellies, and those who do not.  When ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53439838">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches / Had bellies with stars. / The  Plain-Belly Sneetches / Had none upon thars.&quot; This collection of four of Dr. Seuss's most winning stories begins with that unforgettable tale of the unfortunate Sneetches, bamboozled by one Sylvester McMonkey McBean (&quot;the Fix-it-up Chappie&quot;), who teaches them that pointless prejudice can be costly. Following the Sneetches, a South-Going Zax and a North-Going Zax seem determined to butt heads on the prairie of Prax. Then there's the tongue-twisting story of Mrs. McCave--you know, the one who had 23 sons and named them all Dave. (She realizes that she'd be far less confused had she given them different names, like Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face or Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate.) A slightly spooky adventure involving a pair of haunted trousers--&quot;What was I scared of?&quot;--closes out the collection. <em>Sneetches and Other Stories</em> is Seuss at his best, with distinctively wacky illustrations and ingeniously weird prose. (Ages 4 to 8)  <em>--Paul Hughes</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like how at first they aren't being nice to each other, but in the end they end up so messed up that they don't know who is who, forget about stars, start sharing, and from that time on he thinks that you can't teach a sneetch, but he's wrong.  You can teach a sneetch.<br/><br/>One day there are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48941459">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches / Had bellies with stars. / The  Plain-Belly Sneetches / Had none upon thars.&quot; This collection of four of Dr. Seuss's most winning stories begins with that unforgettable tale of the unfortunate Sneetches, bamboozled by one Sylvester McMonkey McBean (&quot;the Fix-it-up Chappie&quot;), who teaches them that pointless prejudice can be costly. Following the Sneetches, a South-Going Zax and a North-Going Zax seem determined to butt heads on the prairie of Prax. Then there's the tongue-twisting story of Mrs. McCave--you know, the one who had 23 sons and named them all Dave. (She realizes that she'd be far less confused had she given them different names, like Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face or Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate.) A slightly spooky adventure involving a pair of haunted trousers--&quot;What was I scared of?&quot;--closes out the collection. <em>Sneetches and Other Stories</em> is Seuss at his best, with distinctively wacky illustrations and ingeniously weird prose. (Ages 4 to 8)  <em>--Paul Hughes</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sam reads this book, on average, twice a week.  He loves how entrepreneurial that Sylvester McMonkey McBean is in exploiting those silly Sneetches bigotry.  He also likes the ending when the Sneetches learn to be nice to each other.  <br/><br/>Sam also likes the story of &quot;Too Many Daves&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37121505">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Parents beware of some very unfriendly subject matter in this book, and not in a humorous context. Definitely the darker side of Seuss.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[my favorite seuss tale! i still get hurt feelings over the cruel treatment of the starless sneetches, and cheer with the beautiful conclusion of the tale-- a harmonious world filled indiscriminately with both sneetches without stars and sneetches with stars upon thars. <br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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