It might seem that the setting of "Yertle the Turtle" is pretty obvious. It's the Island of Sala-ma-Sond, right? Yes, but it's also so much more.See, Sala-ma-Sond is what we in big fancy literature...

Whether we're talking Yertle, Gertrude, or the animals of "The Big Brag," these crazies are all classic moral characters who behave foolishly, just so you—yes, you—can learn a lesson.We can see...

You may have noticed that all three of these stories are poems with good old fashioned rhythm and rhyme. Hooray! You have eyes and ears! You can notice things! Now just what kind of rhythm and rhym...

No doubt about it, "Yertle the Turtle"is the meatiest story here, so it's no surprise that the title of the collection is pretty Yertle-centric (and we're betting Yertle didn't have any problems wi...

We here at Shmoop aren't ones to take sides, but we've got to say, there's something that happens in the stanza right before the ending that's pretty awesome. At least for anyone who doesn't like t...

Confession time. The character of Yertle wasn't original to this story, and nor was the idea of stacking turtles. Seuss first got all turtle stacky in a 1942 editorial cartoon for New York newspape...