https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/non-clinical-questions/25373/what-a-mess [quote user=&quot;Arlo Guthrie&quot;]Just had a eureka moment prompted by a message from . My next door neighbour is a man called Joseph Wright, who illustrated the Frank Muir books: &#39;What A Mess&#39;. https://goo.gl/y8qlDR. I think his cartoons are great, and woulden-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/173749?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 07 Feb 2017 19:32:14 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:12fd97a8-2ba9-43ef-a37d-f34e4a1427beRob Davis<p>[quote user=&quot;Kate Richardson&quot;]</p> <p>[quote user=&quot;Evelyn Barbour-Hill&quot;]</p> <p>Funny, I always found Dr. Seuss over-rated. Not very imaginative in the text, and the illustrations faintly sinister and unpleasant.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Agree the illustrations are weird, but they are lovely to read out loud to your child; I didn&#39;t read them as a child or have them read to me, so I was sceptical to start with, but I am enjoying them now! I am definitely going to try the &#39;What a Mess&#39; series now though!</p> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>I loved some Dr. Seuss - Fox in Socks was always one of my favourites as child, and I loved reading&nbsp;it to my own children, although some of them were banal...</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/173733?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:49:35 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:147f5acb-9608-425b-b1af-f1e18fb0d682Kate Richardson<p>[quote user=&quot;Evelyn Barbour-Hill&quot;]</p> <p>Funny, I always found Dr. Seuss over-rated. Not very imaginative in the text, and the illustrations faintly sinister and unpleasant.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Agree the illustrations are weird, but they are lovely to read out loud to your child; I didn&#39;t read them as a child or have them read to me, so I was sceptical to start with, but I am enjoying them now! I am definitely going to try the &#39;What a Mess&#39; series now though!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/173720?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:24:41 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:fa2ff621-9e50-455f-8b39-a5d390c9dd4eHelen Browning<p>This made me smile - I&#39;ve recently dug out my copy of &quot;What a mess and the cat next door&quot; from when I was a child and am now reading it to my 3mth old!! :-)</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/173712?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:15:48 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:d39b6f43-25b3-4f60-9024-e21d39ed5597Julie Innes<p>Agree the illustrations are weird, but the kids love the rhymes! it meant they could join in from an early age! As a kid, i did also love them- The Cat in The Hat was the first book I ever got from the library, aged 3!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/173710?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:12:38 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:20e15428-18b6-46a8-a394-978c5310053cEvelyn Barbour-Hill<p>Funny, I always found Dr. Seuss over-rated. Not very imaginative in the text, and the illustrations faintly sinister and unpleasant.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/173708?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:09:40 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:f3548fa7-8c66-470c-8149-a27bd78203ddJulie Innes<p>Love all those stories! (Although my writing is obviously heavily influenced by the number of Dr Seuss books I read to the children....)</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/173681?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 07 Feb 2017 11:34:11 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:f6602581-4a6f-42d2-948a-60090bab8f6dIain Richards<p>Also Mog and the V.E.T. &nbsp;As I recall the last picture was the vet with the bandaged finger being brought a cup of tea in bed - by a nurse!&nbsp;</p> <p></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/173679?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 07 Feb 2017 11:17:19 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:d023c71d-408f-404b-b414-210f7e8821f4Niall Taylor<p>I used to read them to the children!</p> <p>Niall</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/173668?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 06 Feb 2017 22:49:46 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:78462ffa-4f1e-4bd7-913a-7e0bb2690eafEvelyn Barbour-Hill<p>Oh yes.&nbsp; The illustrations were what we loved....</p> <p>Young people these days.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>