The Lorax

"Unless someone like you cares a whole aful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It's not."

The Lorax
By: Dr. Seuss
Copyright 1971
Random House
Picture Book
Any Age
72 Pages

The story starts off in the present of a boy serching for answers.  There are no trees and no animals either, he goes to the onceler to get ansers.  The onceler tells the story to him.  A long time ago the land use to be beautiful.  Full of Truffala trees and animals.  One day the Onceler came in and cut down one tree and made a thneed out of it.  The thneeds were a hit and soon more trees were cut down.  The onceler made a factory and it grew.  Not only were trees getting cut downbut the factory causing smog and the the smog was killing the other plants.  The animals were having a hard time getting along.  The Lorax would often show up ate the Onceler's to speek to him.  He spoke for the trees.  The onceler didnt listion to him.  His company kept growing and polution filled the air.  The animals all left.  They came down the the last tree and then everyone packed up and left, except the Onceler, he stayed.  The Lorax went to him and told him what he had done, and he then lifted himself away and left nothing but a stone with the "unless" writen upon it.  The Onceler was left alone, to think on what her had done.  The land never grew back, everything stayed dead and the animals never returned.  The Onceler told the story to the boy and then gave him something.  He gave him the last seed to the last truffla tree.  He told him to plant it, far away, and maybe just maybe, the animals would return, just maybe the Lorax would return.

I would recomend this book to anyone.  It would be a fun book to use on earth day to teach that if we dont take care of the earth then that is what will happen to our world.

I dont think that there is anything wrong with this book.

I love this book.  I really love anything writen by Dr. Seuss, he is my favorite author and I love the messages in his book.