Quotes from book
Happy Birthday to You!

Happy Birthday to You! is a 1959 children's book by Dr. Seuss, the first all-color picture book.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's self-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."


Dr. Seuss photo
Dr. Seuss photo

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

Variant: There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!
Source: Happy Birthday to You!

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