![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "They were destroying quite beautiful eucalyptus trees, and he wanted to do something about this, and he had to find a way to transform what he understood to be a propaganda-oriented perspective on these matters into a fable that even children could understand." But, Pease explains, "he also was confronted with writer's block. Geisel was also furious about construction going on in his La Jolla, Calif., neighborhood. He thought it was "preachy and bossy," says Pease. According to Geisel biographer Donald Pease, the author believed in the movement but didn't care for its rhetoric. Images of an oil-slicked river in Cleveland catching fire in 1969, the first Earth Day in 1970 and other events helped build the movement and put it front and center. Summaries A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. Geisel began writing The Lorax at a time of growing concern about the environment. Seuss is a sixty-four-page book that uses numerous rhymes, internal and end rhymes, to create a pleasing and continuous rhythm. Seuss) such as The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham. With its mostly gray, scrappy, barren images, the story stood in sharp contrast to other books by Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. It chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax is the titular. ![]() While it might be a children's book, The Lorax's ominous message of what happens when you harvest nature to death made it an icon of the environmental movement, spawning movie and stage adaptations not to mention a gazillion school projects. The Lorax is a childrens book written by Dr. ![]()
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