[nopardons]

I was too old to get those stinkers of a book, thankfully, but did run across children of friends of the family who loved them. Took one look at one or two of them and it was instant HATE!

I was raised on the great fairy tales, Greek& Roman mythology, Bowlerized Shakespeare, Dumas, and the wonders of Victorian/Edwardian children's books. So once I had progeny of my own, my old books ( and the ones that my mother and grandmother had been read to too ) got pulled out for bedtime readings.

[exDemMom]

I was raised on the great fairy tales, Greek& Roman mythology, Bowlerized Shakespeare, Dumas, and the wonders of Victorian/Edwardian children's books. So once I had progeny of my own, my old books ( and the ones that my mother and grandmother had been read to too ) got pulled out for bedtime readings.

I'm pretty sure the Dr. Suess books were meant for children just learning to read. I loved them when I was 5, when I probably wasn't ready for the classical fairy tales and such. And they were way better than Fun with Dick and Jane, which I had to read in school and found inane, even at the age of 6.

[Chickensoup]

same here. I read good books growing up and so did my homeschooled kids.

There is very little that is good in new publishing and frankly Seuss started a trend to the ugly.