Early into “The Sneetches,” by Dr. Suess — which, you may recall, features snooty yellow creatures with stars on their bellies — one student drew the parallel to racial discrimination.

Though the Supreme Court appeared open to striking it down Wednesday, the Defense of Marriage Act, which withholds federal benefits from same-sex couples, is still the law of the land. According ...

You don’t have to read very deeply into Dr. Seuss’s children’s story of “The Sneetches” to find themes of ethnic, racial and social tolerance: Theodor Seuss Geisel himself once told an ...

And "The Sneetches" teaches us about prejudice. As adults, it is often these worlds that we return to when we need to make sense of society around us for ourselves or our children. This is just ...

In the Seuss story “The Sneetches,” the title characters are birdlike creatures who all look very similar, except some of them have stars on their bellies. The ones with stars feel superior to ...

‘Horton Hears a Who’ was my favorite book, but as I’ve read the Seuss books to my three children over the past several years, a new favorite has emerged – ‘The Starbelly Sneetches’.

1. Star-bellied versus Plain-bellied: "Now the Star-bellied Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-bellied Sneetches had none upon thars. The stars weren't so big; they were really quite small.

According to NPR’s “Planet Money” host Erika Beras, as Noah’s teacher read “The Sneetches” by Dr. Seuss, published in 1961, the student said Sneetches with stars shunning Sneetches ...

Mandy Robek had read only a few pages of Dr. Seuss’s “The Sneetches and Other Stories” when her third-graders began picking up on its themes. Some Sneetches had stars on their bellies ...