An ode to a really strange day

Wacky Wednesday (Beginner Books(R)) - Theo LeSieg

This is probably my favourite Dr Seuss book, having I read it many a time when I was a kid. I guess the reason for that was because it was one of those books that you didn't just read, but actively participated in it as well. On every page there were things out of the ordinary, and you, the reader, were to try and find as many of these 'Wacky' things as possible. I must also admit that I have not read it in a while, and I suspect that with my rather odd personality, would purposely find more wacky things than the authors originally intended.

Basically this book is about a kid that has had a bad day. He wakes up and suddenly discovers that things have simply gone all weird. Well, granted, when you are on acid things do end up looking really, really weird (just watch Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas), but I am doubtful that it is suggested in this book that the boy took something that we was not supposed to before he went to school.

I would probably suggest that this book is allegorical as well (allegory, as I have previously mentioned, is actually a very good way to assist a child in understanding the world around them. C.S. Lewis understood that when he wrote The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe). The allegory here, and the lesson to be learnt, is that we will always have bad days, or Wacky Wednesdays (I heard that used that as a term for coming down off of hard drugs). However, we are to do our best to make good light of the bad situation. Bad days will always happen, however we need to laugh and look at the bright side of life, just as Brian did when he was hanging on the cross.