Sometimes a Bad Book Idea Can't Be Stopped

Dr. Seuss's character, the Lorax, “speaks for the trees.” So the timber industry financed a rebuttal book: Truax. It stars a fanatical “protector of trees” (named Guardbark) who gets lectured about natural resources by a lumberjack. 



The book features the immortal line: “How far will we go? How much will we pay? To keep a few minnows from dying away?”

Full pdf of Truax here. Tip via Mental Floss.

Dr. Seuss, retitled

BuzzFeed has a nice series of redone Dr. Seuss book titles that reveal the book's deeper themes.

Nice work!

"Green Eggs and Ham, rehashed

Ah, there's nothing like sprucing up a classic with a more appropriate title and/or cover art!

 Hamlet, reconsidered.

 Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo just gets a different dragon.

And Joseph Conrad's Into the Heart of Darkness is now a Maurice Sendak-ish children's adventure!

P.S. I'm not linking back to the self-apparent source for family-friendly reasons.