Did you know with his unmistakable rhymes and signature illustration style, Dr. Seuss creates a classic picture-book ode to aging in You're Only Old Once!?
On a visit to "the Golden Years Clinic on Century Square for Spleen Readjustment and Muffler Repair," readers will laugh with familiar horror at the poking and prodding and testing and ogling that go hand in hand with the dreaded appellation of "senior citizen."
Though Dr. Seuss is known for his peerless work in books for children, this comical look at what it's like to get older is ideal for Seuss fans of advanced years. In his own words, this is "a book for obsolete children." A perfect gift for retirement, birthdays, and holidays!
Review:
Yes, this really is a book for adults. Dr. Suess follows the adventures of a patient who undergoes a battery of medical tests at the Golden Years Clinic, beginning with an eyesight and insolvency test and ends up being "properly pilled" and "properly billed".
Dedicated "with affection for and afflictions with the members of the Class of 1925" Dr. Suess says that it's not immediately a children's book. . . You buy a copy for your child now and you give it on his (or her) 70th birthday.
For most of us, it has been far too long (since childhood?) since anyone read to us just to read to us, rather than pass along information.
So for something very special, if you are over 50 or so, read YOU'RE ONLY OLD ONCE to your Significant Other. You'll probably end up hugging each other while you chuckle.
The Story
It's a very long day as Everyman goes to the doctorsssssss.
The Characters
Everyman has reached 70 with all the ills that implies. Norval is the fish in the hall who has to listen to his pains. Whelden is the orderly and Wheeler who pushes you about. Once you've "graduated", of course.
The Cover and Title
The cover has a cream floor for a background with blue doors at the top and three doctors peeking out, their stethoscopes dangling. At the bottom is Whelden in his creamy yellow boilersuit, quite smug as he pushes Everyman, a balding old man with his fringe of white hair and bushy mustache, wearing a yellow short-sleeved bathrobe with blue trim. It's an odd sort of tricycle in which he sits with its big yellow and pink wheels.
On a visit to "the Golden Years Clinic on Century Square for Spleen Readjustment and Muffler Repair," readers will laugh with familiar horror at the poking and prodding and testing and ogling that go hand in hand with the dreaded appellation of "senior citizen."
Though Dr. Seuss is known for his peerless work in books for children, this comical look at what it's like to get older is ideal for Seuss fans of advanced years. In his own words, this is "a book for obsolete children." A perfect gift for retirement, birthdays, and holidays!
Review:
Yes, this really is a book for adults. Dr. Suess follows the adventures of a patient who undergoes a battery of medical tests at the Golden Years Clinic, beginning with an eyesight and insolvency test and ends up being "properly pilled" and "properly billed".
Dedicated "with affection for and afflictions with the members of the Class of 1925" Dr. Suess says that it's not immediately a children's book. . . You buy a copy for your child now and you give it on his (or her) 70th birthday.
For most of us, it has been far too long (since childhood?) since anyone read to us just to read to us, rather than pass along information.
So for something very special, if you are over 50 or so, read YOU'RE ONLY OLD ONCE to your Significant Other. You'll probably end up hugging each other while you chuckle.
The Story
It's a very long day as Everyman goes to the doctorsssssss.
The Characters
Everyman has reached 70 with all the ills that implies. Norval is the fish in the hall who has to listen to his pains. Whelden is the orderly and Wheeler who pushes you about. Once you've "graduated", of course.
The Cover and Title
The cover has a cream floor for a background with blue doors at the top and three doctors peeking out, their stethoscopes dangling. At the bottom is Whelden in his creamy yellow boilersuit, quite smug as he pushes Everyman, a balding old man with his fringe of white hair and bushy mustache, wearing a yellow short-sleeved bathrobe with blue trim. It's an odd sort of tricycle in which he sits with its big yellow and pink wheels.
