The Lorax

Just finished meeting the last of the new 174 RAs yesterday.  What a great group.  In all, 65 new books to read (I had 120 left, oh well!).  The students are helping to review and edit the new list of books.  Hope to have that up on the site by mid-week.  In the interim, I have already started to focus on some of the books.  Today, while in Strand Bookstore - great place folks!, I actually saw one of the books and stood there and read it.  The Lorax by Dr. Seuss is a classic.  A great, short animated story of a young boy who meets up with the Once-ler.  The Once-ler then tells how the Lorax tried to warn Mr. Once-ler to stop ruining their environment (well his environment includes Truffula trees) by cutting trees down and dumping  "Gluppity Glup" and "Shloppity Shlop" into the ponds all to make clothes like Thneeds.  In the end, the boy can see how damaged our environment is and is given the gift of potential redemption (stemming from the Once-ler’s guilt), the last seed that could be planted from the Truffula tree.  Pretty dynamic book for us to learn the message of how sensitive we should be about our environment.  We only have one.  Great read with young kids and adults alike!  Thanks for sharing RAs – a new one to the list this year!