[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.

[nopardons]

Granted that the Dick & Jane readers were boring and inane; however, there were plenty of great books, for beginner readers, available, before and after the horrible Dr. Suess crap!

[b9]

Exactly. Seuss was a godsend for early readers.
Did you know he submitted to almost 100 publishers before Random House picked him up?

Talk about tenacity.