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Yertle the Turtle, and Other Stories

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Includes three humorous stories in verse: Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, and The Big Brag.

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Turtles teach submitted by kathscot on August 6, 2012, 12:11pm Yertle wants to be important so he makes his subjects stack so he can be higher and higher. How high can he go?

Dr. Seuss submitted by candyceh811 on July 26, 2015, 9:50pm This is my favorite Dr. Seuss book. Yertle teaches an excellent lesson about standing up to authority and creating change.

Great submitted by TLW1998 on July 21, 2019, 9:11pm Fun to read and a good lesson to learn

A lesson submitted by Aimless on July 24, 2019, 6:31pm A lesson hidden in a dr Seuss book! Wonderful

A first book submitted by sara on July 20, 2020, 4:50pm This is one of the first books I owned. I loved having it read to me.

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PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1958.
Year Published: 1958
Description: [75] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 520

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0394800877
0394900871

SUBJECTS
Turtles -- Fiction.
Jealousy -- Fiction.
Pride and vanity -- Fiction.