''Great Day for Up!'' is a children's book written by
Dr. Seuss and illustrated by
Quentin Blake
Sir Quentin Saxby Blake (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. For his l ...
. It was published by
Random House
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the foll ...
on August 28, 1974.
It is the first book credited to Seuss not illustrated by the author himself, though Seuss had previously collaborated with illustrators on other books under the
pen name
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A pen name may be used to make the author's na ...
Theo LeSieg.
Plot
The narrator says that today is a good day for things to go up. As more things are described as getting up, at the very end, the narrator is revealed to be a boy who does not ''want'' to get up and wants to sleep in. This ending would later be expanded into ''
I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!''.
See also
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List of Dr. Seuss books
References
External links
''Great Day for Up!'' read by David Selman
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Books by Dr. Seuss
Quentin Blake
1974 children's books
Random House books