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| Author | Dr. Seuss |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | August 12, 1959[1] (renewed in 1987) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover andpaperback) |
| Pages | 64 pages |
| Preceded by | Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories |
| Followed by | One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish |
Happy Birthday to You! is a 1959children's book byDr. Seuss, the first all-colorpicture book.[2]
It deals with a fantastic land called Katroo, where the Birthday Bird throws the reader an amazing party on their special day. It consists of a running description of a fantastical celebration, narrated in the second person, of the reader's birthday, from dawn to late night.
The celebration includes fantastical and colorful gifts, foods and a whirl of activities all arranged by the Birthday Bird for the reader's birthday. It focuses on the reader'sself-actualization and concludes with the happy and exhausted reader falling blissfully asleep.
A popular Seuss paragraph in this book reads: "Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you".[3]
AlthoughHappy Birthday to You! was not directly adapted, The Birthday Bird appears in an episode ofThe Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss.[4]
The book is dedicated to the author's "good friends" and "The Children ofSan Diego County".[5]
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