Oh, the Places You'll Go product reviews

We just love this Dr Seuss book in this family as it's great brain fodder for adults & children alike.
Dr Seuss's easy rhythms make it fun for parents to read to children and entertaining for children to read to themselves or listen to attentively.

This is one of those magic books that I am happy to read over & over to my children.

This is a classic Dr Seuss book. The illustrations are beautiful and strange and colourful. The text is rhythmic, though at times difficult to get your tongue around.

My 4 year old enjoyed parts of the story, but others she found difficult to sit through. She enjoyed the "waiting room" and wanted to help me make up other things we could wait for. She enjoyed the whimsical pictures and imagining where the character might go. However, I think the book is aimed at an older age group.

I can imagine buying this for her when she graduates from Uni or Polytech, or goes on her OE and it being like a giant greeting card filled with the hopes you have for your child and the realities of being a grown up. Its not a book that she requests now though and she will suggest other books when I pick it up to read. She thoroughly enjoys other Seuss titles though, so I think it's just this book in particular.

Our boys love this book and have almost memorised the words and can recite them back (which is not a bad thing as they're pretty inspirational words).

We've used parts of this book in a Naming Ceremony (alternative to Christening) and it went down very well. Poignant words and very relevant. The hard bit is what to leave out, because its all so good.

The kids enjoy Dr Seuss' rhyming (like all his other books) and it presents a motivational yet realistic summary of what 'life' is like. A fun story but equally with a fantastic message.

I think this was the last book Dr Seuss wrote and he certainly went out with a bang!

This is by far my favourite Dr. Seuss book of all time. I bought my own copy with money from my 21st birthday and read it to everyone I could get to sit and listen for the five minutes it took to reach the end. I love the easy rhythm, the memorable phrasing and the inspirational message. Life has its ups and downs, but in the end, you will succeed, because you're that kind of guy (or girl).

Actually, I think the only criticism I have for this book is that it is quite obviously aimed at boys. Not only the 'that kind of guy' comment, but also the names listed at the end (which are all obviously male). A young girl can get the message too of course, but it is a little sad that they couldn't have made it more gender neutral.

Still, I love this book to pieces and read it whenever I am feeling in a seussian 'slump'. It really is an excellent tool for getting perspective and picking oneself up!