The Lorax

The Lorax is my absolute favorite Dr. Seuss book! I love the pictures and the animals in this book. It is about a young boy that comes to the house of the Once-ler. The pictures in the beginning of the book are very dark and sad looking. When the Once-ler takes the boy back to telling him the story of the Lorax the pictures are beautiful and bright with Truffula Trees. Then slowly the once-ler comes and starts making all sorts of things with the Truffula Trees. All these products require him to keep cutting down the trees.

Sadly, this makes all the Swomee-Swans, the Brown Bar-ba-loots, and the humming fish leave to find food and shelter because the Truffula Trees are dwindling. All through the story the Lorax keeps warning the greedy Once-ler to stop chopping down the Truffula Trees but he doesn't until the last one is gone. Also, throughout this book the background pictures are getting duller and smoggier to show that the trees are no longer there to keep the air clean. Finally, the Once-ler leaves because there is nothing but a big gross mess where the once beautiful animals lived in the Truffula Trees. At the end of the story the Once-ler gives the boy the very last Truffula seed to plant hoping that the Lorax will come back with all of his friends one day.

I love this story because it is a reality about what is happening to our trees and animals as we make way for new businesses and housing developments. If we don't conserve our trees and nature then it will be gone also like the Truffula Trees and the Lorax. I would most certainly use these Dr. Seuss books in my classroom because they are super fun to read and all have great morals to the story!