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"The Grinch got a wonderful, awful idea ..."

This is one of my favorite Dr. Seuss books!

And the classic 1966 animated TV show is one of the best book-to-film adaptations ever. When I was a kid, we made sure to catch that show Every. Single. Year. when it was shown on TV around Christmas (back in the dinosaur age, before DVRs or even videocassettes). Boris Karloff was a brilliant narrator, the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" (which is NOT in the book, but which Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel) wrote f ...more

This is one of my favorite Dr. Seuss books!

And the classic 1966 animated TV show is one of the best book-to-film adaptations ever. When I was a kid, we made sure to catch that show Every. Single. Year. when it was shown on TV around Christmas (back in the dinosaur age, before DVRs or even videocassettes). Boris Karloff was a brilliant narrator, the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" (which is NOT in the book, but which Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel) wrote f ...more

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. "Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
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