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SLEEP BOOK, by Dr. Seuss (Random, House; $2.95), is his best in years. Its illustrations are properly outlandish, and its verses are zany and catchy enough for many rereadings. It is to be read to a child in bed in the hope of encouraging him to join the rest of the animal kingdom in slumber...
...vastly broader, but they will find no mention of hellfire or corruption. About the only danger to a child's complacency is the threatened loss of Christmas-an anxiety that, surprisingly, provides the plot for three of the season's best children's writers: Dr. Seuss in How the Grinch Stole Christmas ("The Grinch hated Christmas!. . . No one quite knows the reason"), Ogden Nash in The Christmas That Almost Wasn't ("This was the gruesome, grimsome guard/That ruled the land under Evilard/And decided to outlaw Christmas"), and Phyllis McGinley in The Year without a Santa Claus...
Derived from a story by oldtime Cartoonist Dr. Seuss ("Quick, Henry! The Flit!"), the movie wanders through mammoth sets that seem as boundless as a boy's dreams, recording, without undue surprise, the most surprising details. Dr. T.'s castle is equipped with topless sky ladders, sliding doors, subterranean passages, split staircases that lead nowhere, an outsize shovel for putting the doctor's ill-gotten greenbacks in the safe, and a pair of Siamese-twin flunkies, joined by one long white beard, who go about their chores on roller skates. Best of many good sequences: a bizarre...
...Seuss (real name: Theodor Seuss Geisel) admits he had an ax to grind in 5,000 Fingers: as a child, he took piano lessons "from a man who rapped my knuckles with a pencil whenever I made a mistake ... I made up my mind I would finally get even with that man. It took me 43 years to catch up with him. He became the Terwilliker of the movie...
HORTON HATCHES THE EGG-Dr. Seuss -Random House...