[VeritatisSplendor]

Well, the two Horton books are pro-life, pro-responsibility, pro-standing up for right even if you have to do it by yourself. Even if Seuss did not perhaps intend the pro-life message, it's there.

The Grinch cartoon is stronger on the miraculous meaning of Christmas than the book is. The Grinch film I don't want to see.

My grandfather's book collection contains a book called The Seven Lady Godivas by Geisel, illustrated in a very Seussian style, about the seven "horse truths" they discovered (never put the cart before the horse, don't close the barn door, etc). I would never have heard of its existence if we did not have the book.

Mrs VS

[cornelis]

I never cared for Marvin K.

Aside from allusions to Nixon suggested above, the decision for Marvin to go was to me, a child of nine, unjustified, unsatisfying. And if I describe it now I'd say it was the child's version of "Waiting for Godot."

[Maurkov]

From Horton Hears a Who, I didn't get the pro-life message, but from the Who's perspective, a profoundly religious one.

[Al Simmons]

The Grinch Cartoon is also an all-time classic because of Boris Karloff. I could listen to his rendition of "The Grinch" 1000 times over and never lose the smile and tingle I get listening to this "master of the macabre, mesmerism and the supernatural" (as he might have put it in an earlier day), do such a MASTERLY, grandfatherly job with this classic tale. I unconsciously lapsed into a (so-so) Karloff imitation every time I would read "the Grinch" to my kids.