Secondhand Dr Seuss Bargain Book Box SP2820

Secondhand Children's Bargain Book Box SP2820

Fourteen Dr. Seuss books in one box — the books that taught a generation to read, and the ones they've been pressing into the hands of every child they've ever met since. From the rollicking simplicity of One Fish Two Fish and The Foot Book through the wit of There's a Wocket in My Pocket! and the gentle environmental parable of The Lorax, right up to the soaring Oh The Places You'll Go, the full range of Seuss's extraordinary imagination is here. A complete collection of the canon in a single bargain box.

1. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish — Dr. Seuss — A cornerstone of early reading, presenting simple counting and concepts through the gleefully absurd world that only Seuss could create — one of the best introductions to books there is for the very youngest readers.
2. Oh, The Places You'll Go! — Dr. Seuss — The book Seuss finished in the final months of his life and his most openly inspirational work — a graduation gift staple for good reason, its message about facing the world's uncertainties with courage and humour lands as well at forty as it does at four.
3. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street — Dr. Seuss — The very first Dr. Seuss book, published in 1937 after being rejected by dozens of publishers — a boy's walk home becomes an ever-escalating fantasy of what he might have seen, and an early demonstration of the imagination engine that would run for the next fifty years.
4. Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose — Dr. Seuss — A funny and gentle fable about generosity taken too far, in which a moose's hospitality becomes its own worst enemy — one of the lesser-known Seuss titles but a perennial favourite with children who recognise the comedy of being too kind.
5. The Cat in the Hat — Dr. Seuss — The book that changed children's publishing: written deliberately with a limited vocabulary to prove that learning to read didn't require boring books, it has sold over ten million copies and remains the definitive Seuss.
6. The Foot Book — Dr. Seuss — One of the simplest and most satisfying concept books in the Seuss canon, introducing opposites with the clarity and wit that made his work accessible to the very youngest readers.
7. There's a Wocket in My Pocket! — Dr. Seuss — A gleeful tour of the nonsense creatures living in an ordinary house, this is Seuss at his most linguistically inventive — a book that makes children laugh at and love the sheer strangeness of language.
8. Dr. Seuss's ABC — Dr. Seuss — The alphabet book by which all other alphabet books are judged — Seuss's treatment of each letter is so vivid and funny that children absorb it seemingly by osmosis.
9. I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! — Dr. Seuss — The Cat in the Hat returns, this time extolling the pleasures of reading in a book that doubles as a love letter to books themselves — witty, warm, and quietly one of the best things Seuss ever wrote.
10. Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! — Dr. Seuss — One of Seuss's most purely comic books, offering an increasingly elaborate set of suggestions for how Marvin might depart — the escalating absurdity is irresistible.
11. Green Eggs and Ham — Dr. Seuss — Written in response to a bet that Seuss couldn't produce a book using only fifty different words, Green Eggs and Ham went on to become one of the bestselling children's books of all time — a masterpiece of constrained creativity.
12. Oh Say Can You Say? — Dr. Seuss — A tongue-twister book that turns the physical comedy of trying to say impossible things out loud into a reading event — best experienced at speed and maximum volume.
13. The Lorax — Dr. Seuss — Seuss's most explicitly environmental book, in which the Lorax speaks for the trees against the relentless expansion of the Thneed industry — published in 1971, it has aged into something close to prophecy.
14. Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? — Dr. Seuss — A pure sound book, celebrating the joy of onomatopoeia with a character who can imitate almost anything — irresistible for very young children and reliably chaotic at storytime.