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    <body><![CDATA[Be kind to others.<br/>Be happy with yourself just the way you are.  Dont try to be someone you are not.  Dont be greedy.<br/>Be humble.<br/><br/>I just LOVELOVELOVE this one!  I cant believe that I dont own a copy!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great stories by Dr. Seuss that are relevant to adults as well as children.  The concepts of not making yourself better at the expense of others and the idea that you are not necessarily better than someone else or that you should be happy with who you are are fundamental lessons everyone should tak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35723897">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one is another Seuss jem, though not quite on the par of Horton and Places, in my opinion. I read &quot;Yertle the Turtle&quot; to my students and they came up with &quot;Don't be greedy&quot; and &quot;Treat others like you want to be treated&quot; as morals of the story. Fun and short.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Genre: Picture Book<br/><br/>Age Level: Tansitional; Grades 3 and up<br/><br/>World View: Not Limited to any class or color<br/><br/>Theme: Greed and Social Importance <br/><br/>Literary Elements: The classical AA BB rhyme scheme from doctor Seuss.<br/><br/>In the Classroom: Fun for poetry...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48427498">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Surely &quot;'bout two hundred&quot; stacked turtles should make it into the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390883.GUINNESS_BOOK_OF_WORLD_RECORDS_" title="GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS. by Norris Mcwhirter">GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS.</a>...   And Yertle had the single-minded vision to ensure his record was nearly uncontestable by stacking &quot;'bout five thousand, six hundred and seven&quot; turtles.   Focus and determinatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46494233">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories has three short stories, one against fascism, one against jealousy and one against bragging. The two my kids enjoy reading most are the first and third, &quot;Yertle the Turtle&quot; and &quot;The Big Brag.&quot;<br/><br/>Back when Theodor Geisel was working as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8009748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Several short stories that are fun to read to your kids!  I think I enjoyed them just as much as my kids.  They were also good little stories to jump off of into a spiritual conversation with my 5 year old.  She picked up on the wrong attitudes of the characters and we were able to have good discuss...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46864915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As children, we (my brothers and I) had LPs of several Dr Seuss books, and I'm p sure this was one.  The book, like many Dr Seuss books, is best read aloud, and the LPs were accompanied with illustrations by Dr Seuss.  Not quite the best of all possible worlds, but I liked it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yertle the Turtle is a tale of the megalomania of leadership, false consciousness, ensuing class oppression and the revolutionary role of the proletariat told and illustrated by the inspired labor artist, Theodor Seuss Geisel.<br/><br/>God knows, it changed my life!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[HAD TO ACT OUT A LAWSUIT, THE TURTLES BACKS WERE BROKEN... I WAS THE ONE WITH THE BROKEN BACK... IN 4TH GRADE, OR SOMETHING!!! TO GET KIDS INTERESTED IN LAW?!? THIS BOOK HELPED ME TO FIND MY INNER TURTLE, SOMETHING ALL OF US MUST SOMETIME IN LIFE ACCOMPLISH.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I love all Dr. Seuss books, this one is numbered among my favorites.  I still have the story of Gertrude McFuzz memorized, and the Big Brag teaches such a great lesson.  It is hard to find a better children's book than this.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Suess has always written books with an underlying theme.  This book was written to protest the rise of Aldolph Hitler in pre-WWII Europe.  And the parallels between Yertle's rise and fall and that of Hitler are amazing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fun one, like most of the Seuss books.  I find myself getting mad at the doofuses in Seussuses' books.  : )  Fortunately, the good guy/turtle usually prevails in the end.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book condemning fascism and Adolf Hitler and still applicable to global and personal issues today. It's the simplicity which renders it so profound.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm usually not a Dr. Seuss fan.  I can't explain it, but this was one of the few books of his I liked.]]></body>
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