Toppsta - Childrens Books – Reviews

American author and illustrator Dr. Seuss took the world by storm back in the 1950s with his breakthrough children’s book, the wonderfully silly The Cat in the Hat. Since then, Dr Seuss books have delighted generations of kids (and adults) the world over. 
 
Few authors can be described as both inspiring and absurd in the same breath, but Dr. Seuss is certainly not your average writer. His fabulous illustrations, clever rhymes, toe-tapping rhythms and silly tongue twisters make his books unique.
 
His most famous books have been adapted into countless films and stage plays and continue to sell millions of copies each year. Some of the most popular Dr Seuss films include How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Lorax and The Cat in the Hat. Theodor Seuss Geisel wrote and illustrated over 60 books in his lifetime under the pen name Dr Seuss and many of them are still firm favourites with families the world over today.

The weird and wonderful world of Dr Seuss’ characters is bound to charm children with their love of the absurd and, despite his famous statement that he never wrote stories with a moral in mind (“Kids can see a moral coming a mile off”), almost all of his stories have a life lesson hidden in them somewhere.

Dr Seuss’ poems are incredibly silly and filled with tongue-twisters, but the rhymes are also great for kids learning to read and many books are suitable for young readers to read alone.

There is no particular order to read the books in and they can be enjoyed at all ages. After all, you are never too old to be silly! 

We love The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham for young children and The Lorax for older children with its environmental message. There are also plenty of Dr Seuss collections with all the popular stories. The full Dr Seuss book list is below. 

Keep in mind one of our favourite Dr Seuss quotes:

“The more that you read the more things you will know.
 The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” (Dr Seuss. I Can Read With My Eyes Shut)

Discover more books loved by kids aged 5+.

All the Dr Seuss books in order:

Book 1: And To Think That I Saw it On Mulberry Street (1937)
Book 2: 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938)
Book 3: King’s Stilts (1939)
Book 4: Horton Hatches the Egg (1940)
Book 5: McElligot’s Pool (1947)
Book 6: Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose (1948)
Book 7:  Bartholomew and the Ooblek (1949)
Book 8: If I Ran the Zoo (1950)
Book 9: Gerald McBoing Boing (1950)
Book 10: Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (1950)
Book 11: Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953)
Book 12: Horton Hears a Who! (1954)
Book 13: On Beyond Zebra! (1955)
Book 14: If I Ran the Circus (1956)
Book 15: The Cat in the Hat (1957)
Book 16: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957)
Book 17: The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (1958)
Book 18: Happy Birthday to You! (1959)
Book 19: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
Book 20: Green Eggs and Ham (1960)
Book 21: The Sneetches and Other Stories (1961)
Book 22: Dr Seuss’s Sleep Book (1962)
Book 23: Dr Seuss’s ABC (1963)
Book 24: Hop on Pop (1963)
Book 25: Fox in Socks (1965)
Book 26: I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew (1965)
Book 27: The Foot Book (1968)
Book 28: I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! And Other Stories (1969)
Book 29: Mr Brown Can Moo! Can You? (1970)
Book 30: The Lorax (1971)
Book 31: Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now? (1972)
Book 32: Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973)
Book 33: The Shape of Me and Other Stuff (1973)
Book 34: There’s a Wocket in my Pocket (1974)
Book 35: Great Day for Up! (1974)
Book 36: Oh, The Thinks You Can Think! (1975)
Book 37: The Cat's Quizzer (1976)
Book 38: I Can Read with My Eyes Shut (1978)
Book 39: Oh Say Can You Say? (1979)
Book 40: Hunches in Bunches (1982)
Book 41: The Butter Battle Book (1984)
Book 42: You’re Only Old Once (1986)
Book 43: Oh, The Places You’ll Go! (1990)
Book 44: Daisy-Head Mayzie (1995)
Book 45: Oh, Baby, The Places You’ll Go! (1997)
Book 46: Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! (1998)
Book 47: The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories (2011)
Book 48: Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories (2014)
Book 49: What Pet Should I Get? (2015)