Geisel was also furious about construction going on in his La Jolla, Calif., neighborhood. He thought it was 'preachy and bossy,' says Pease. According to Geisel biographer Donald Pease, the author believed in the movement but didn't care for its rhetoric. Images of an oil-slicked river in Cleveland catching fire in 1969, the first Earth Day in 1970 and other events helped build the movement and put it front and center. Geisel began writing The Lorax at a time of growing concern about the environment. Seuss) such as The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham. With its mostly gray, scrappy, barren images, the story stood in sharp contrast to other books by Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss.While it might be a children's book, The Lorax's ominous message of what happens when you harvest nature to death made it an icon of the environmental movement, spawning movie and stage adaptations not to mention a gazillion school projects.

Though the book has a sad meaning, a little hope is restored in the end, bringing back the positive attitude of Dr. I enjoy reading this book with young children and the creative names, words, and rhymes are fun for everyone.

On top of that, The Lorax teaches kids to stand up for what they are passionate for. It also teaches children the consequences of greed and how it can lead to losing everything. Though The Lorax is somewhat depressing, as a beautiful land is destroyed, the book introduces children to environmental awareness and the consequences of mass production. He pleads and tries to reason with the Once-ler to think of the environment, but is ignored and must flee himself when all is destroyed. “A Thneed’s a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need!” claims the Once-ler, as his greed turns into a big industry, chopping down all the Truffula trees and dumping his goo into the Humming-Fish pond! When out of the tree trunk comes the loveable Lorax, with his big furry mustache, speaking for the trees that cannot speak for themselves. When the Once-ler comes upon the bright-colored Truffula trees, his immediate greed for the tufts turn into the destruction of an entire ecosystem. I speak for the trees.” Not once have I found another children’s book that has mixed great, abstract poetry with environmental awareness and mass consumption as that of Dr.

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