Happy Birthday to You!
Happy Birthday to You! is a 1959 children's book by Dr. Seuss, the first all-color picture book.[1]
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| Author | Dr. Seuss |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 1959 (renewed 1987) |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 64 pages |
| Preceded by | Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories |
| Followed by | One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish |
Plot
It deals with a fantastic land called Katroo, where the Birthday Bird throws the reader an amazing party on their special day. It consists of a running description of a fantastical celebration, narrated in the second person, of the reader's birthday, from dawn to late night.
The celebration includes fantastical and colorful gifts, foods and a whirl of activities all arranged by the Birthday Bird for the reader's birthday. It focuses on the reader's self-actualization and concludes with the happy and exhausted reader falling blissfully asleep.
A popular Seuss paragraph in this book reads: "Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you."[2]
Adaptations
Although Happy Birthday to You! was not directly adapted, The Birthday Bird appears in an episode of The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss.[3]
The book is dedicated to the author's "good friends" and "The Children of San Diego County."[4]
References
- "Happy Birthday to You! by Dr. Seuss | PenguinRandomHouse.com". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
- Murphy, Ciara (2015-12-11). "'Oh, the places you'll go!' The best Dr Seuss quotes". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
- "Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Season 1, The Birthday Moose". Online Media of Northern Illinois Libraries. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
- Fensch, Thomas (1997). Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays On the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel. BookBaby. ISBN 9780996315463.