How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and word is always the same, yet, so rich are the variations he plays on his themes, always fresh and amusing." "Kirkus Reviews" wrote, "Youngsters will be in transports over the goofy gaiety of Dr. Seuss's first book about a villain." The reviewer called the Grinch "easily the best Christmas-cad since Scrooge." Ellen Lewis Buell, in her review in "The New York Times", praised the book's handling of its moral, as well as its illustrations and verse. She wrote, "Even if you prefer Dr. Seuss in a purely antic mood, you must admit that if there's a moral to be
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