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A review by lilmatt050
If I Ran the Circus by Dr. Seuss
4.0
I wanted to rate this book 5 stars so bad because I loved the illustrations and the beginning of this book but by the time I was half way done with this book I was so over it. Dr. Seuss wanted to make this Zoo bigger and chaotic but I felt like he got lost in the madness of it all. For building such a creative story, I felt like the rhyming was way too much, the usage of make believe words were overused then his other books and I got confused and lost from the story. I can see that this was a very creative book but I believe Dr. Seuss went a little overboard. In the beginning I was following this wonderful rhythm with his rhymes and by the end of it I wanted it to be over. The illustrations were beautiful and that is why I gave this 4 stars instead of less.
Little Morris McGurk is behind an empty lot of Mr. Sneelock's ramshackle store and one day he believes that if he cleans the empty lot from the cans and dead trees he can open up a circus and he would be the director of this crazy circus. He believes Mr. Sneelock will not have a problem about this circus and he will be more than willing to help and aide the circus in any which way he can. As more and more thoughts creeps into Morris McGurk imagination, the crazier the circus becomes and it gets to the point of excess. Finally at the end it was all just a day dream and the empty lot is still empty.
The illustrations were marvelous depicting this epic circus and I was very disappointed on how the overuse of make believe words can distract and lose the intention of this book. There was an entire page that every verse had 4-5 words that were make believe and didn't make sense even with the illustrations and by that point I wanted the circus to end. I felt like as the excess reached its final limits it didn't leave any room for the story to grow and for this book I believe less would have done more work.
Little Morris McGurk is behind an empty lot of Mr. Sneelock's ramshackle store and one day he believes that if he cleans the empty lot from the cans and dead trees he can open up a circus and he would be the director of this crazy circus. He believes Mr. Sneelock will not have a problem about this circus and he will be more than willing to help and aide the circus in any which way he can. As more and more thoughts creeps into Morris McGurk imagination, the crazier the circus becomes and it gets to the point of excess. Finally at the end it was all just a day dream and the empty lot is still empty.
The illustrations were marvelous depicting this epic circus and I was very disappointed on how the overuse of make believe words can distract and lose the intention of this book. There was an entire page that every verse had 4-5 words that were make believe and didn't make sense even with the illustrations and by that point I wanted the circus to end. I felt like as the excess reached its final limits it didn't leave any room for the story to grow and for this book I believe less would have done more work.