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You'RE Only Old Once Book
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Amazon Review
Subtitled A Book for Obsolete Children, this unusual item in the Seuss canon doesn't really belong among the children's books. Written to celebrate the nonsense master's 82nd birthday, it follows "you" (an elderly gent in a suit and white moustache) through a physical check-up in some fiendish geriatric clinic. You are measured, prodded, and subjected to all the medical indignities familiar and unfamiliar to the elderly. "You must see Dr. Pollen, our Allergy Whiz, who knows every sniffle and itch that there is... He will check your reactions to thumbtacks and glue, catcher's mitts, leaf mould, and cardigans too. Nasturtiums and marble cake, white and blue chalks, anthracite coal and the feathers of hawks." It's clear that the process is going to be long, but much shorter than the bill. The blurb on the back says it all: "Is this a children's book? Well... not immediately. You buy a copy for your child now and you give it to him on his 70th birthday." Actually, it would make an amusing gift for anyone over 40. --Richard Farr
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Product Description
Juvenile story beginning reading. Story that has rhyming verses. Ideal book for families with young children who have parents dealing with bereavement in near future. The issues of health and old age, A very touching book for all families. Acceptance, humor and laughter for the final stage of life.
- 0394551907
- 9780394551906
- Dr. Seuss
- 17 December 1990
- Random House USA Inc
- Hardcover (Book)
- 48
- 8th Edition.
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