My favourite picture book from a long time ago is called The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss. IT’S SO AWESOME!!! I still like it. I have the book with me RIGHT NOW. And I’m reading it RIGHT NOW.
The reason why I like it? It’s kind of because it rhymes, and kind of because I really like the story. Even my tutor said that that book is cool. The rhymes are really creative.
This book is about the Once-Ler chopping down Truffula Trees to make Thneeds and being all greedy and selfish. Then the Lorax pops out (literally) and tries to tell him to stop. But the Once-Ler’s like, “It’s only one tree, I’m doing no harm.” Then the Lorax keeps saying, “I speak for the trees! For the trees have no tongues! You are crazy with greed, no one will buy that Thneed!” But the Once-Ler doesn’t stop and keeps making his company bigger and bigger and he plans on biggering and BIGGERING no matter what. Then he cuts down a whole bunch of trees, and the Bar-Barloots have to go away because there’s not enough Truffula Fruits. Then the birds go away, then the fishes. Then the last tree gets cut down. The Once-Ler doesn’t regret anything. The Lorax is really sad and flies away or something. Then the Once-Ler tells a boy many years later about that and tells him to plant a Truffula Forest. 😀
It’s cool how the author makes up random words. Like Swamy, Bar-Barloots, Truffula, Grickle, Gluppity Glupp, and Sloppity Slopp. He does that in like every book!
I think the Once-Ler is waaaaay too greedy. I feel like it shouldn’t be only the Lorax protesting, I feel like the whole world should be. The Once-Ler in the beginning only chops down one tree then says there’s no harm. AND LOOK AT IT NOW!!! The sky is all grey, the grass looks grey too, almost no life, no color, no Truffula. The ponds are all brown. HORRIBLE!!!
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If I was the Lorax, I would walk over to the Once-Ler, scream at him, punch him in the face, then push him off the building, I mean seriously, you’re rich, you should buy a railing. AND LOOK AT THE BIRDS!!! They can barely climb the stairs and your making them fly for a long way to find clean air. And you’re making FISH WALK over to another body of water. 🙁 He should at least keep some SEEDS to plant them. And also save a lot of the trees. Like destroy I don’t know 20% or them. Not like 100%!!! Seriously…That doesn’t help anyone.
And it’s cool how there used to be a line in the book that was removed 20 years after it was published. It’s on the page where the fish are walking because the pond is so polluted. The removed line is, “And I heard things are just as bad up in Lake Erie.” In Geography class, I learned that in the 1970s, the Great Lakes were seriously polluted. Now it’s better!!! 😀 <3
Peace out!
Claire