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...between average, everyday Yooks and Zooks who are suspicious of each other because the former prefer eating bread with the butter facing up while the latter like their butter facing down. The Yooks and Zooks devise bigger and more outrageous war machines, until each holds a Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo "filled with mysterious Moo-Lacka-Moo" capable of blowing the other to Sala-ma-goo. Says Geisel: "I don't know if it's an adult book for children or a children's book for adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

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