Friday, March 07, 2008

Poetry Friday: ABC's of Dr. Seuss

I composed this in honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday which was this past week. Roundup this week is at The Simple and the Ordinary.

A is for Audio Telly-oTally-O-Count (The Sleep Book)
B is for Blue Goo (The Butter Battle Book)
C is for Cindy-Lou Who (How The Grinch Stole Christmas)
D is for Diffendoofer Day (Hooray for Diffendoofer Day)
E is for Eiffelberg Tower (Horton Hears A Who)
F is for Foo-Foo the Snoo (I Can Read With My Eyes Shut)
G is for Grin-itch Spinach (What Was I Scared Of?)
H is for Horton the Elephant (Horton Hatches The Egg)
I is for Island of Sala-ma-Sond (Yertle the Turtle)
J is for Jertain (There’s A Wocket In My Pocket)
K is for Kitty O’Sullivan Krauss (Oh, The Thinks You Can Think)
L is for Little Cats A-Z (The Cat In the Hat Comes Back)
M is for Marvin K. Mooney (Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now)
N is for Noodle-Eating Poodles (Fox in Socks)
O is for Oliver Boliver Butt (Too Many Daves)
P is for Plain-Belly Sneetches (The Sneetches)
Q is for Quilligan Quail (I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew)
R is for Red Fish (One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish)
S is for Sam I Am (Green Eggs and Ham)
T is Tizzle-Topped Tufted Mazurka (If I Ran the Zoo)
U is for Up, Up, Up With A Fish (The Cat in the Hat)
V is for Von Crandall (You’re Only Old Once)
W is for Whisper-ma-phone (The Lorax)
Y is for Yeoman of the Bowmen (The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins)
Z is Zax both North and South (The Zax)

http://www.seussville.com/
http://www.catinthehat.org/
http://www.seussville.com/university/
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~drseuss/whoswho.pdf
http://www.drseussart.com/
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Dr__Seuss/index.shtml
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/seusscoll.html

3 comments:

  1. What a great ABC list - I think I've read all those books to my kids at one point or another.

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  2. Anonymous7:16 AM

    Great list! I will show that to my students when we do our Seuss reading. I posted about the Dr. as well this week! I made it late to the round-up though thanks to internet demons. :)

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  3. Anonymous5:16 PM

    Nicely done. Did you notice that there's also blue goo in Fox in Socks?

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