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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mach2.5" data-source="post: 1111266" data-attributes="member: 12834">Some of Dr. Seuss' books were not meant to make sense. They were meant to be enjoyed by the children whose parents read them a few pages before bed. Take your example with One Fish, Two Fish. You can easily break the book into sections based on what Dr. Suess imagined a small child would remember (about 4-6 pages) at each reading. Granted, the break is not perfect, but there the book 'sections' would be remembered by even a 2 year old after a few readings. Method within the madness. Besides, young children (in my experience) do much better with 'suspension of disbelief' than do adults. Ask your child if pets could easily serve as household appliances. To you, or to most adults, the notion is silly and stupid. To a child, its possible. Dr. Suess was a master at giving children something to laugh at as well as sparking the more esoteric notions of creative thinking. As one ages, things like that make far less sense. But they make perfect sense to a child. For having the ability to know what makes sense to children, Dr. Suess was a wonder of his age, and ours.Although I do agree, he must have been smoking something at times, even when writing books like the Lorax <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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