Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose (Classic Seuss)

This should be required for every child's library. Babies will love the large pages with the bright illustrations; toddlers and preschoolers will love the silly and whimsical pictures and language. The elementary school kids will start to understand the important environmental messages!

Very cute book. Great price compared to book stores. We come from a family of hunters, and love moose in the wild, on the dinner table & moose themed decore. But beware - this book doesn't portray hunters in the best light...

We have been checking this book out periodically for the last couple months. I finally bought it on the store, and it came in the mail 2 days early (Just in time for Christmas!). We own about 15 Dr.Seuss books, but this one is by far my 21 month old sons favorite! Thidwick the Big Hearted Moose is one book I don't mind reading over and over; which is good because I'll be reading it for years to come.

I'll keep this review short and say that the story line has the valuable lesson of voicing your opinion and standing up for yourself. I also like the illustrations. They are the classic, slightly kooky but recognizable Seuss characters. My son loves to (try to) say the names of the woodland creatures that pile up on poor Thidwick's head.

This book is a must have.

We have been checking this book out periodically for the last couple months. I finally bought it on the store, and it came in the mail 2 days early (Just in time for Christmas!). We own about 15 Dr.Seuss books, but this one is by far my 21 month old sons favorite! Thidwick the Big Hearted Moose is one book I don't mind reading over and over; which is good because I'll be reading it for years to come.

I'll keep this review short and say that the story line has the valuable lesson of voicing your opinion and standing up for yourself. I also like the illustrations. They are the classic, slightly kooky but recognizable Seuss characters. My son loves to (try to) say the names of the woodland creatures that pile up on poor Thidwick's head.

This book is a must have.

My children have their own copy of The Lorax. We bought this one to send to their grandfather who is very involved in environmental issues. He immediately gained another level of respect for Dr. Seuss. It just goes to show that The Lorax is a book for all generations.

This translation is faithful to the content and rhyme scheme of the original, but its very faithfulness makes it incredibly awkward to read aloud. I bought this for my bilingual two-year-old, who loves the English version, based on the positive reviews for this translation, and I only made it a third of the way through the book before my tongue was exhausted. Comparing the two versions, I found each line of the Spanish to have an average of 50% more syllables name of the original. This not only makes it cumbersome and awkward; it also destroys the easy rhyme scheme of the English version, since you have to make it through so many syllables to get to the rhyme - your ear has already forgotten it. I admire the intent, but I'm sending it back because I just don't think I can make it through all the way!

Incidentally, it took two years for me to cave and buy Spanish translations after a long, fruitless, ultimately enlightening search for the Spanish- language equivalent of Dr. Seuss. It doesn't exist - there are a few well known poems and nursery rhymes, but the language simply lacks the kind of rich children's literature tradition we have in English. I report this as a fully bilingual academic scholar of Spanish Literature who has lived for years in Spain. For now, we will simply make do with the few Spanish-language children's translations that are comfortable to read, a volume or two of nursery rhymes, and non-book sources of Spanish language stimulation.

Wonderful insight into one way we now tear away our future to live the way we want today. Overly populating, as we fill in and deplete our Earth Island, there will soon be nowhere for relief. If no drastic change, we will hope to live long enough to apologize to our Grand Children.