The Butter Battle Book [VHS] | Charles Durning, Chris Latta

The Butter Battle Book [VHS] | Charles Durning, Chris Latta | Cold war arms race

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	The Butter Battle Book [VHS] Charles Durning, Chris Latta Good Times Home Vide, 1991 average customer review:based on 52 reviews
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highly recommended

great book...family favorite

This book was a childhood favorite that I am now enjoying again with my daughter. It is a funny, lyrical book that you will enjoy reading with your child.

Cold war arms race

This book is a fairly transparent parallel of the cold war arms race. While other Seuss books put more distance between the actual topic and the text of the book, this one lacks that divide. This is not one of the better Seuss books.

Another warning re: young children

My two-year-old son and I love Seuss, and we love reading masterpieces like On Beyond Zebra or If I Ran the Circus every night together. My son also loves this book, but I do not. What he loves are the ever more elaborate weapons systems shown in the illustrations. He cannot understand the anti-Cold War message. (He can, by contrast, understand the environmental message in The Lorax, which doesn't require a grasp of game theory.) All he wants to do with the book is look at the weapons and talk about the weapons. I could perhaps overlook the unfortunate fact that my son is a budding war-monger if the verse were up to the Seussian standard, but it isn't. In fact it's quite pedestrian. I think this book is for Seuss completists only. Fortunately, ours is a library copy. It's the one full-size Seuss book we won't be purchasing.

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