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Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Hardcover, 56 pages
Published by Random House (1990-01-22)
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"Don't be fooled by the title of this seriocomic ode to success; it's not 'Climb Every Mountain,' kid version. All journeys face perils, whether from indecision, from loneliness, or worst of all, from too much waiting. Seuss' familiar pajama-clad hero is up to the challenge, and his odyssey is captured vividly in busy two-page spreads evoking both the good times (grinning purple elephants, floating golden castles) and the bad (deep blue wells of confusion). Seuss' message is simple but never sappy: life may be a 'Great Balancing Act,' but through it all 'There's fun to be done.'"--(starred) Booklist.One Potato Review
Irresistible. Go ahead. Try. No matter how many times you receive it as a party favor or a well-intended gift, this book remains a visionary guide to the obstacles and easy streets and purgatories of growing up. Seuss was rolling in this one, and also apparently channeling whatever god in the sky goes around dropping doggerel into our heads, whatever our religion, or background, or age, be our name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O’Shea….
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