The Lorax is most ceratinly a fun book. This story is cleverly written, and would probably be better appreciated by a slightly older crowd. It has a good theme that all ages can somehow identify with, and I think that makes a book more enjoyable for teachers to read to their students, if they can identify with it as well. Dr. Seuss knows how to relate to every age. ( )

If you go to the scary place on the side of the town, you can see where the Lorax got lifted and taken away. The Once-ler will tell you how the place used to be perfect, but he ruined it with manufacturing. The Lorax warned him, many times during the process, for each organism that was affected. Finally, the place is ruined, and the Lorax is taken up into the sky. A good website for this book is: http://alex.state.al.us/lesson_view.p...

The book is about a creature moves into a sweet place with beautiful trees. He begins to cut down trees for sweaters for money. The lorax warns him about how it will affect everyone. Eventually, all the trees get chopped down and all the animals leave. The book is good for children who are learning about saving trees and how it affects animals.

I really liked the Lorax. It was very sad because the Onceler cut down all of the forest and the animals had to leave. It teaches a lesson about saving mother nature and preserving our natural surroundings. This book is perfect for anyone that is learning to read because the language is simple and the story helps the reader to gain morals and value for other things in nature. ( )

The Lorax is a very good book. It was very sad because the Onceler cut down all of the forest and the animals had to leave. It teaches a lesson about saving mother nature and preserving our natural surroundings. This book is perfect for anyone that is learning to read because the language is simple and the story helps the reader to gain morals and value for other things in nature. ( )

This book is great fun
With message so saucy
Seuss spoke with a voice
Neither sharpish nor bossy.
Teach 'em young
Teach 'em old
To be strong
And be bold
To stand up tall
And speak for the trees.
I think Seuss and the Lorax
Everyone needs. ( )

This is a perfect book to use to teach children the importance of taking care of the environment.

The Lorax is my all-time favorite Dr. Seuss story. Every child should have this read to them as a young child! Love it!!! ( )

It is sort of like a mystery. ( )

My kids and I love this book, we have had many children-led discussions about the environment and the importance of looking after it during and after reading it aloud. A great starting point for littlies in discussing why we try to step lightly on the earth. ( )

Maybe I'm just not a Dr. Seuss person but I hated this book. Boring story, stupid words that didn't entertain and even though it was meant for a child rather than me, my son hardly ever looked at it growing up, so its sits on the shelf still quite pristine. Funny thing is that this is only a comment on a kiddies' book - yet it has engendered so much nastiness from someone called weird character and another 'alter-ego'. Michael has made it his business to take people to task for not enjoying this book even to the extent of making personal remarks. He himself enjoys it so much he's made a society (IRL not virtually) to promote its aims as thought it were a kind of bible. Luckily the other reviewers are more rational and measured in their response and don't feel the need to make rude personal remarks. Each to his own. This isn't for me. ( )

Wonderful book. Not quite up to Green Eggs and Ham but very memorable and enjoyable. (Good as a play, too!) ( )

This is my favorite Dr. Seuss book ever, and I love so many of his books that that means a lot. 'The Lorax' stands up as just a great story, but is also an interesting commentary on the environment and our attitudes about it. It's also silly and fun at times, which makes it a great book for both kids and adults. ( )

This book about the impact of our actions on the environment is quite relevant iin to. Certainly, it is more urgent. The story aday's society. The book tries to teach and encourage children to care for our planet. I think the message it was written before a time where anyone was even concerned about the earth. I think it really ties in to the story of Wall-E , the new Disney movie.

Modern Fantasy - This story is about the Once-ler who used truffula trees to make thneeds. To the Once-ler business was more important than the effects of his business on the environment. After all of the trees were cut down, there was nothing left, all of the animals were gone and the air was polluted. The fate of the environment rests in the last remaining truffula tree seed.

I remember seeing the movie before ever reading the book. As a child, I did not see the underlying message about saving the environment. As with all Dr. Seuss’s books, the illustrations are awesome. I also enjoyed reading the made-up words and how easy they rolled off the tongue.

In a classroom I would discuss how this book relates to the world we live in today, and what it means to “go green.” We would also talk about endangered species and their roles in the environment. ( )

In this inspirational story, readers are taught to value and respect the environment and all its riches. Appropriate for second grade and beyond... ( )

I loved this book growing up. Very long and very interesting with a good moral story hidden inside. The illustrations are very good too.

Essential reading for all ages! ( )

This story is cleverly written, and would probably be better appreciated by a slightly older crowd. It has a good theme that all ages can somehow identify with, and I think that makes a book more enjoyable for teachers to read to their students, if they can identify with it as well. ( )

The lorax is a book about a happy community that is over run with industrialization and all the trees of the community are cut down. At the end of the story there's a boy that is entrusted with the last tree seed and he must help it grow to rebuild the community.

This is a fun book, that was actually read to me not too long ago. My teacher read it to me before i graduated from highschool because its a good going out into the world book.

I love this book. One of my favorite Dr. Suess works. Gives wonderful importance of our natural environment using a fictional setting.

Good of course - gret even - and with the usual social message if you care to read it that way. I am one of Dr. Seuss's biggest fans. This isn't my favorite of his works though. A little too heavy handed to be excellent - just my humble opinion. But again, like I said I'm a huge Seuss fan and I think anything of his is at least great. ( )

I think this is the best environmentalism book ever, and it's not even a product of our 21st century global warming scare. Witty and playful yet heartfelt and compelling, it teaches and entertains at the same time, which is surely the best sort of book. Interestingly, it shows the way that irresponsible production and consumerism go hand-in-hand with the desctruction of nature, a concept you don't find in many children's books, but one that is also beautifuly explored in the film "Wall-E." Also poignant are the illustrations which go from Dr. Suess's usual psychadelic colors to drab grey as the truffula forests are destroyed. And Suess's irreverence for language! Huzzah for the editors who let him play with words without fear that children would grow up saying "biggered" and "sharpish"! ( )

Like many of Dr. Seuss' books, this one has become part of the culture.
I called my son, Tommy, 'Barbaloot' when he was little - so many Seuss names just roll of the tongue. ( )

The message in this book about the impact of our actions on the environment is perhaps even more relevant in today's times than it was when it was written. Certainly, it is more urgent. The story and pictures are presented in a way that even the youngest of children can understand the message. The book is a great way to introduce children to the topic of taking responsibility for our actions, to the planet, and to all creatures. This book should be in every child's library and in every school.

I can't count how many times I've read this to my daughter, and she gets something new out of it each and every time. She asks a lot of questions, so the book has become a springboard for teaching her about caring for the earth and for others. Rather than being a "dark" message, as some other reviews have suggested, I think the book ends with a strong message of hope - the hope contained in the last remaining truffula seed. Even the Once-ler has some redemption in the end, learning that it's never too late to take action to right our wrongs. ( )