Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

How can you not love Dr. Seuss?  He's always been my favorite children's book author.  His stories were always full of color, and life and were super happy.  Everything a kid's book should be.  I will admit, that while there are a few things I miss about being the classroom, the number one thing is celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday.  There's always some new crafty activity and some story to get kids excited about reading.  If anyone was going to make kids fall in love with reading, it was going to be Seuss  Especially this year, there's a new book coming out!  How exciting is that?!  I can't wait to make a home for that on my bookshelf.

But I digress...  

What's always been awesome with Dr. Seuss is the stories he could tell.  By using fun to say rhymes and crazy made up animal characters narrating the story, he made kids care about the environment or understand that everyone was unique in their own way.  Pretty much every message we need kids to learn today.  He was ahead of his time, and I'm so thankful that he was a part of my world.  I owe him my love of reading!  He also gave us grown ups something to aspire to: #travelgoals : )

While Travel Channel's tie-in may have been my most favorite today, and while I love me some Oh the Places You'll Go! (Any book that encourages you to get out in the world is fantastic with me), it's not my favorite Seussian exclamation.  That comes from Horton himself: