Who's this orange dude?
It's the Lorax, who else? I recently saw the movie which was based on a Dr. Seuss book. The movie release coincided with Dr. Seuss' birthday which we celebrated at school. I brought one of my books to school for show and tell called "Are You My Mother?". Then my dad read a book in class called "I Love the Night Life!" No, it's not the 1970's song by Alicia Bridges (You Tube it - it's a groovy song). What did I like about the movie? Well, the character the Lorax, first of all. He looks like a cool, cuddly, fluffy dude. What 5-year old can resist that? Especially when he lifts his behind to fly (a clever trick I'm gonna try when my mom's not looking). I liked the marshmallow-eating bears. The singing fish are pretty cool. The Truffula trees are nice. I really liked the boy Ted's uni-motorcyle. That was awesome!
The story was pretty good with lessons learned. It's not cool how the Once-ler used up all the Truffula trees to make thneeds. Bad move. Conserve our resources, that's what it says. It's gonna be a pretty sad looking Earth for us young ones if we don't act now.
Here's the original book. See the movie and read the book too.
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