Little Words, Big Ideas

We can discriminate over pretty silly stuff: the types of cars we drive, the sparkly stones we buy, where we were born, how we spit our words… and on and on in an endless list of absurdity. When...

It's all about the Benjamins for Sylvester McMonkey McBean, star of "The Sneetches." Dr. Seuss would tell you that with money comes power, and that's how you know we're talking about class. The Sne...

Just look at how high those Sneetch chins are set in the air. That's pride at its Seussiest. Thankfully, the Sneetches learn from their mistakes. The Zax? Not so much. Their pride comes in the form...

Identity is the one theme we find threaded through all four stories in The Sneetches and Other Stories. The Sneetches use tummy stars to assign identities. The Zax base their identities on their no...

Fear is the mind-killer. Wait, that's from Dune. For Dr. Seuss, fear is the friendship killer. In "What Was I Scared Of?", the narrator is afraid of a pair of floating, empty, pale green pants simp...