Name: Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
ISBN: 9780008240035

Seuss

In this hilarious book, featuring three timeless fables, Dr. Seuss explores the pitfalls of growing too big for your boots!

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

Dr. Seuss

Yertle's story leads off with his attempt to build a bigger kingdom on the backs of his loyal subjects (literally). King of everything he can see, Yertle orders his turtles to stack up under him to build a towering throne. (He made each turtle stand on another one's back and he piled them all up in a nine-turtle stack.) But a plain little turtle named Mack--stuck at the bottom--decides he's had enough. (I know up on top you are seeing great sights, but down on the bottom we, too, should have rights!)Yertle's story leads off with his attempt to build a bigger kingdom on the backs of his loyal subjects (literally). King of everything he can see, Yertle orders his turtles to stack up under him to build a towering throne. (He made each turtle stand on another one's back and he piled them all up in a nine-turtle stack.) But a plain little turtle named Mack--stuck at the bottom--decides he's had enough. (I know up on top you are seeing great sights, but down on the bottom we, too, should have rights!)

Destiny J Tamayo

Not my favorite Dr. Seuss book but I enjoyed reading it to my brother.

Illus. in color. Three modern fables in humorous pictures and verse.

Maurice FitzGerald

Dr. Seuss presents three modern fables in the rhyming favorite Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. The collection features tales about greed (“Yertle the Turtle”), vanity (“Gertrude McFuzz”), and pride (“The Big Brag”). In no other book does a small burp have such political importance! Yet again, Dr. Seuss proves that he and classic picture books go hand in hand.

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

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