How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr Seuss

Dr Seuss books are full of strange and wonderful creatures, drawn in his inimitable style and named thus. Cat in the Hat, Fox in Socks and Yertle the Turtle are all up there in the front or back benches of the children's Hall of Fame and Grinch is another of the Seussian amazing beasts worth knowing. I have to say I was rather reluctant at the first sight of the book: I had a vague memory of a long, boring and a rather terrible movie I was made to half-watch on the television during one family visit. But I needn't have worried: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is a great book and if your child doesn't yet know it, this 50th birthday edition would make a great ...

Dr Seuss is one those author's you either love or you hate. If you like the others you'll like this one. It follows the same format of nice little rhyming verses to make it easy to read with kids, and as always the story has the happy ending and moral message that you expect from the doctor. The Grinch is a green thing with very large ears - something like a cross between Mr Spock and a cucumber. He's kind of sad and lonely and this makes him hate seeing the others having fun, especially at christmas when they're all being jolly and singing and he isn't. So he decides to steal christmas so that they'll be as miserable as he is. ...