This Dr. Seuss book build off of each page. A boy walks to school everyday and his imagination takes him away. He notices a horse and a wagon on his way to school and each page more things are added, so at the end it's pretty much a parade on Mulberry Street. I have never read this book before either but it wasn't one of my favorites. The book was taken over by a lot of text and there wasn't many detailed illustrations. I like when there are a lot of details in his books because they are so abstract that it's cool to see whats in his imagination. There wasn't really a moral or lesson that was trying to be taught but showing how children's imagination run wild and how parents or adults just don't understand what is going on in kids heads. I picked two Dr. Seuss books for the poetry collection because I haven't read any other Dr. Seuss books this semester and all his books are so poetic or the first thing I think of when I think of a poem. In my classroom I want a whole collection of Dr. Seuss books because I think they are up for so much interpretation and kids just love them. It's amazing that 30 or 40 years after they were published they are still as popular as they were many years ago and still used a lot in classrooms. This wasn't my favorite Dr. Seuss book but I'm definitely not going to stop reading his books. It was still a good book but not compared to his others in his collection.
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