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Express, Birthday Means said to be available
for transporting to its intended recipient
a gift chosen at the Official Katroo Birthday
Pet Reservation—in Happy Birthday to You!
Extension, Three-Seater Zatz-it Nose-Patting
Device said to have been created by
the narrator to permit a caressing of the creature
called Zatz-it—in On Beyond Zebra
extra fox Phrase cited in providing examples
of where it “comes in handy” to have
the letter X/x—in Dr. Seuss’s ABC
eye and eyes 1: Among the things cited
(those of the reader) as associated with a
state of being “up” (“You! / Open up / your
eyes!”)—in Great Day for Up 2: Things the
color of which is to be supplied by the volume’s
purported author—in My Book About
Me 3: Things central to the book’s overall
coverage—in I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
See also: left eye; right eye; Stare-Eyes
eyebrows 1: Among the objects that
were, it is suggested, left to be supplied
for Mr. McGrew—in I Can Draw It Myself
2: Among the things about which questions
are asked—in The Cat’s Quizzer 3: Facial
elements that the Cat in the Hat says get “red
hot” (together with its being, he declares,
“bad for my hat”) when he reads with his
“eyes shut”—in I Can Read with My Eyes
Shut! 4: Prominent facial feature of Mr.
Lowe, about which the narrator says: “We
think he wears false eyebrows. / In fact,
we’re sure it’s so.”—in Hooray for Diffendoofer
Day!
eyeglasses Among the things about which
information is to be provided by the volume’s
purported author—in My Book About Me
See also: one-eyed eyeglasses
eyelashes Among the objects that were, it
is suggested, left to be supplied for Mr.
McGrew—in I Can Draw It Myself
eyesight Ability central to the worm’s ridiculing
of the boastfulness of Mr. Rabbit and
Mr. Bear—in “The Big Brag,” as part of Yertle
the Turtle and Other Stories
Eyesight and Solvency Test Examination
for which the unnamed principal character
of the story is told he has come to the Golden
Years Clinic—in You’re Only Old Once!
eyes shut Manner in which the Cat in the
Hat says he “can read,” but against which
practice he urges the young cat—in I Can Read
with My Eyes Shut!
eyses Seussian rendering of “eyes” (devised
to rhyme with “surprises”)—in If I Ran the
Circus
factory, I-and-T Workplace of Mr. Potter—
in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are
faddle Device (“a button”) said to be used
to hold a wamel on a camel—in Did I Ever
Tell You How Lucky You Are
Fairfax Apartments Residence at Who-ville
of Jo-Jo—in Horton Hears a Who!
faithfulness Quality of Horton basic to the
story’s development—in Horton Hatches the
Egg
Falkenberg, Farmer Character whose
radishes are referred to as part of the lyrics of
the old man’s song—in Did I Ever Tell You
How Lucky You Are
fall Among the words featured for use as
part of a phrase or sentence—in Hop on Pop
Falls, Herk-Heimer Cascade said to be
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