Title: a celebration of individuality
Product review: At Diffendoofer School, students learn essential life skills --"listening, smelling, laughing, and yelling" and "how to tie knots in neckerchiefs and noodles, how to tell chrysanthemums from miniature poodles." The delightful Diffendoofer School may be closed, forcing the students to attend Flobbertown School, where everyone does "everything the same . . They dress in just one style. They sing one song, they never dance, they march in single file . . . Their lunches have no taste at all, Their dogs are scared to bark." Naturally, the Diffendoofer creative thinking students rally to save the day and the school. The characters are quirky but all too real. I particularly like giving this book to young people to encourage their spirit and creativity, as a preemptive strike against the peer-pressured conformity of adolescence. (As an added bonus, many of Ted Geisel's original sketches and concepts are included in a post-script titled "How This Book Came to Be".)
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