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This article is about the Dr. Seuss book. For the traditional song, see Happy Birthday to You. For other uses, see Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday to You! is a 1959 children's book by Dr. Seuss, the first all-color picture book.[1]

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

  1. ^ "Happy Birthday to You! by Dr. Seuss | PenguinRandomHouse.com". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  2. ^ Murphy, Ciara (2015-12-11). "'Oh, the places you'll go!' The best Dr Seuss quotes". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  3. ^ "Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Season 1, The Birthday Moose". Online Media of Northern Illinois Libraries. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  4. ^ Fensch, Thomas (1997). Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays On the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel. BookBaby. ISBN 9780996315463.
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