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    Audiobook8 minutes

    Yertle the Turtle

    Written by Dr. Seuss

    Narrated by John Lithgow

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    About this audiobook

    A modern fable in humorous verse.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 27, 2006
    ISBN9780739339282
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    Yertle the Turtle
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    Dr. Seuss

    Theodor Seuss Geisel – better known to his millions of fans as Dr. Seuss – was born the son of a park superintendent in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904. After studying at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and later at Oxford University in England, he became a magazine humorist and cartoonist, and an advertising man. He soon turned his many talents to writing children’s books, which included the creation of the one and only ‘The Cat in the Hat’, published in 1957.

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    • 5/5
      Characters: Yertle the king turtle and his minionsSetting: PondTheme: You can lose all if you are greedy and dictate.Genre: PoetrySummary: This book tells the story of a king turtle who wants to see everythign around him. What happens is that he tells the other turtles to stack so that he could be on top and see everything. In the end, all of the turtles desert him. This is where he ends up with nothing in the end except with mud in his face. Audience: ChildrenCurriculum ties: Ties to literature with learnign about rhyming words. Personal response: I have read many of Dr. Seuss books but I have never had the chance to read this book. Firs of all, I have always loved Dr. Seuss' books and how he uses language to get the readers interested in reading. His use of playing with words helps kids engage with the text. Furthermore, the art of Dr. Seuss, it what is mesmorizing. The contrast of the colors make the text fun and keeps it engaging. More importantly, his books always tells a story or moral. This is where it is important. This book tells the story that one should respect others and try not to be a dictator. This is where you can lose everything you have and end up in the mud just like the king in this book.
    • 5/5
      Yertle the Turtle is king of all he sees. Everything is going well until he decides he cannot see enough. He orders a few other turtles to stand underneath him so he can extend his rule. He soon becomes obsessed with power, adding more and more turtles to the pile. What happens when the one on the bottom gets tired of being stepped on?I adore this book. It's wonderful and opens up a dialogue with children about a very complicated subject. It takes a sophisticated concept and simplifies it to an easily grasped moral. The rhyming is, of course, wonderful. This is one of my all-time favorite books. It's long so it makes a better read aloud for kindergarten and up. 2nd grade and up should be able to read it independently. This is another great text for engaging in complex subjects with low readers in the upper grades.
    • 5/5
      This was one of my favorite Dr. Seuss books growing up. The author wrote it in light of the events of the Holocaust and WWII. It is actually for sale at the Holocaust museum. Dr. Seuss did many books that were secretly propaganda for kids that taught them how to be better than what was going on in Germany with war and persecution of jews. This book can most definitely be used in a Juior High and High School setting to talk about history, but in an Elementary setting it would be best to just talk about bullying and authoritarianism. Dr. Seuss is also of course notorious for his rhyming free verse form of poetry which could also be used in an English/Language arts class in elementary grades. My student loved this book because of the silliness, but she also enjoyed the lesson it had to offer.
    • 5/5
      This book has a few different themes in it. There is one about being kind to others, liking oneself, and that arguing about things is just silly. I like this book because it teaches children valuable life lessons. I would use this book in my classroom to teach them different morals. I would recommend this book to children in grades Pre-K - 5th grade.
    • 5/5
      The first story of this book is Yertle the Turtle which is a story of a king turtle who made all his subjects into his throne. However, when one turtle dared to burp the king fell miles and miles down. This is a cute lesson on the bigger you are the harder you will fall. Another story in this book was about a bear and a bird who bragged and bragged. A worm hears them and points out that all bragging does is make them both look foolish. I loved all the stories in this book and definitely will be teaching them to my kids and in the classroom.
    • 4/5
      Yertle the turtle is king of the pond, but one day decides that his throne is too low and he wants to be higher so that he can see much more. Yertle commands all of the other turtles to stand atop one another, so they stack up 40 turtles high with Yertle on top. But this simply isn't good enough for Yertle because he is very greedy and wants to see even more. He commands another hundred or so turtles to join the others and lift him higher. One little turtle named Mack speaks up from below and tells King Yertle that his legs are getting tired, he is hungry, and his shell might crack from the weight of all the other turtles. Yertle doesn't care one bit, he just keeps adding more and more turtles to the stack in order to get higher and higher. Eventually, the turtle-stack is too tall and they all come tumbling down. Yertle lands face-first in a puddle of mud and the other turtles just laugh because they know he has gotten what he deserves.
    • 5/5
      Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, and The Big Brag are the three fun stories in this Dr. Seuss book. Yertle was King of the pond but he wanted to be King of all he could see so he built his throne higher so he could see farther, and farther. In Gertrude McFuzz she wishes to have a tale like Lolla-Lee-Lou so she eats berries that make your tale grow however she isn't satisfied and keeps eating until her tale is so long she can't even fly anymore and gets stuck on the mountain with the berries.In the Big Brag both a bear and a rabbit say they are better than the other until an old worm settles the argument by proving he is better than both and that they are silly for arguing. I love Dr.Seuss books and this proved to be another good one. It was interesting to see the hidden moral to the story that I hadn't really noticed before in Dr. Seuss books.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed reading this book. It's about a turtle, called Yertle, who is a king and forces all the other turtles to stand on one another just so he can climb up and be on top of the world. When he looks out and finds something that is higher than him, he brings in more turtles to help carry him. I really loved this book because it's interesting to see how political it really is, which hits an audience of all kinds of age groups. One of the powerful messages the book delivers is how to be considerate and not be greedy. I would recommend it for kids to read it, but I would also like it if these kids were to return to it later on in the years, because then they'd have a different kind of reading of what the book is delivering.
    • 5/5
      Here is a rare case where "Other Stories" refers to vignettes that are just as classic as the book's title piece. Unlike "The Sneetches," the stories in this book are also united by a common theme: the futility of vanity. Politics may be beyond the grasp of many children's interest or understanding, but they will still comprehend that Yertle is being supremely unfair to his turtle companions. They may be even better able to relate to Gertrude McFuzz's envy or to the playground boasting of the rabbit and bear in "The Big Brag." Seuss was a rare genius in combining the sheer fun of poetry with the morality of fairy tales, without needlessly dragging children on quests and excursions when something simple would do. This book is a perfect example of that feat, times three.
    • 5/5
      Yertle the Turtle is very greedy. He abuses his power and takes advantage of the other turtles. He ignores the requests of his "subjects," and he is over"thrown" because one turtle burped. This book illustrates how greed is an evil trait and power is short lived if the power is abused.
    • 5/5
      This is one of my favorite children's books of all time! There are three stories in this book. We usually read it during Read Across America Week. We also try to tie in our animal unit study of reptiles that week.
    • 4/5
      Well, he certainly had an interest in sharing political views. Whether this is good or bad depends, I guess, on whether you agree with him. He did it in a way that's not too preachy or annoying, that's a point in his favor.Here we have three stories, whose names I don't care to remember at this time. (The book is visiting Grandma with my nieces, so I have to post from memory. Forgive me.)In the first one - Yertle the Turtle! - we have a grandiose turtle king who insists on stacking all the turtles in his kingdom so he can see more and more and be king of more and more. And so it goes on until the one at the bottom, poor Mack, decides that he has rights too and shakes the whole throne. And now all turtles are free, the way turtles (and all people) are meant to be. Then we have one about a bird who wants more and more feathers until... okay, I can't remember this one, but it's a moral about selfishness and vanity (I believe).And the third, which I adore, is about a bear and a rabbit arguing over who is best until they're bested by a worm who claims he can see "all the way around the world" but, alas, all he sees is two big fools with nothing better to do than to argue about who is better than who!So we have three good stories, three easy morals (two and a half? I cannot, for the life of me, remember that middle moral!), and a nifty green cover. I like this book a lot.One note: This book is written for school-aged children. Please, don't get it for your baby.
    • 4/5
      Illustrations in color. Three modern fables in humorous pictures and verse.
    • 5/5
      This book has three stories in it. One is "Yertle the Turtle" about a king turtle who makes other turtles stand on their backs so he can have a tall throne. It gets stack so high, that it falls and Yertle falls into the mud. Another story was "Gertrude McFuzz" about a bird who wanted more feather that she had. She became to greedy to get feathers that it weighed her down and she couldn't fly anymore. The last one was called the "Big Brag" about a rabbit who told tall tales and started a competition with a bear and worm, and loses because he lies.
    • 5/5
      This is another great story talking about compromise. A good book for all ages with pictures and different length's of sentences.
    • 5/5
      My young daughters and I love to read this book at bedtime. When Yertle's dictatorship collapses, my 3 year old cheers. This book has universal themes that are good for children of all ages 1-99.
    • 4/5
      I remembering reading this to my "classroom" when I was a little girl. I don't know what it is about this story but I do love it. I think it is a great story about being nice and considerate. Even more in depth, it is about not stepping on the little people because it will come back to hurt you. I think this is a good book to read to younger children and also a good book for beginning readers.
    • 4/5
      The illustrations are clever, and the stories are amusing, and they all contain underlying morals that children can benefit from. I would definitely read this to my students.
    • 3/5
      A good, funny Dr. Seuss book... and who doesn't love Dr. Suess?
    • 5/5
      A great management tale in a lovely form. Listen and be aware.
    • 5/5
      cool