The Lorax

By: Dr. Suess

Published by: Random House Books for Young Readers

Pages: 72



This book is a story about a little boy who goes to a dirty, polluted, deserted place. This place has no trees, and heavy smog. There stands one house with a man who knows the story about what happened to this place. He pays the man fifteen cents, and the man begins to tell the story. He starts by saying that when he came to the forest there was lots of trees, and fish, and birds and animals. So he built a house and statred making " Thneeds" (a sweater, sock, shirt, pillow case, sheet, anything you can imagine) out of Truffula Trees. Soon he gets greedy and his business gets bigger with more employees. The Lorax keeps warning him that he is ruining the beautiful area. But the man keeps making Thneeds. The forest gets dirtier and dirtier and eventually the animals, birds, and fish have to leave. Along with the Lorax. Eventually the last tree is gone and everyone that is making Thneeds leaves, and the one man is left to live in the dirty forest. And at the end of the story the old man gives the last seed from the Truffula trees, and tells him to grow one, and take good care of it.



Ages: 4-7



Who I would recommend it to: Any young child, or anyone for that matter. It's a fun book to teach about the environment.



Possible Conflicts: I don't think this has conflicts, I feel this story has a good lesson built in it about keeping our environment clean.



My reaction: Honestly I thought this was a lame book, it would be fun if you were learning or teaching about keeping the environment clean. I give it 3 stars ***