In this haunting fable about the dangers of destroying ourforests and woodlands, the long-suffering Lorax struggles to saveall the Truffula Trees from the wicked Once-ler's axe. With hisunique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotousrhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helpingthem learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfullyanarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranking among the UK's top tenfavourite children's authors, Seuss is firmly established as aglobal best-seller, with nearly half a million books soldworldwide. This delightful book forms part of the third stage inHarperCollins' major Dr. Seuss rebrand programme. With the relaunchof six more titles in January 2004, such all-time favourites as TheLorax, The Foot Book and Yertle the Turtle boast bright new coversthat incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels: Blue BackBooks are for parents to share with young children, Green BackBooks are for budding readers to tackle on their own, and YellowBack Books are for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. The Loraxbelongs to the Yellow Back Book range.

《老 雷斯》(TheLorax)*早发表于1971年，书中的主人公老雷斯，爱树如命，本书也被视为人类对生存环境危机的一个寓言：故事描绘了一个叫文斯勒 (Once-ler)的人,为了赚钱，将人间仙境变成了一片荒漠的故事。当文斯勒发现一个美丽的乐园，他不听老雷斯的警告，过度利用资源，还所有的树木砍 来作无用之物。当生态破坏到了没有任何地方可供动物栖息时，乐园变成了无生气的沙漠。那么，人类是否曾想过当地球资源也被耗尽和污染的情境呢？希望藉此故 事来唤醒人类来保护地球吧!

        When Dr. Seussgets serious, you know it must be important. Published in 1971, andperhaps inspired by the "save our planet" mindset of the 1960s, TheLorax is an ecological warning that still rings true today amid thedangers of clear-cutting, pollution, and disregard for the Earth'senvironment. In The Lorax, we find what we've come to expect fromthe illustrious doctor: brilliantly whimsical rhymes, delightfullyoriginal creatures, and weirdly undulating illustrations. But herethere is also something more--a powerful message that Seussimplores both adults and children to heed.
The now remorseful Once-ler--our faceless, bodilessnarrator--tells the story himself. Long ago this enterprisingvillain chances upon a place filled with wondrous Truffula Trees,Swomee-Swans, Brown Bar-ba- loots, and Humming-Fishes. Bewitched bythe beauty of the Truffula Tree tufts, he greedily chops them downto produce and mass-market Thneeds. ("It's a shirt. It's a sock.It's a glove. It's a hat.") As the trees swiftly disappear and thedenizens leave for greener pastures, the fuzzy yellow Lorax (whospeaks for the trees "for the trees have no tongues") repeatedlywarns the Once-ler, but his words of wisdom are for nothing.Finally the Lorax extricates himself from the scorched earth (bythe seat of his own furry pants), leaving only a rock engraved"UNLESS." Thus, with his own colourful version of a compellingmorality play, Dr. Seuss teaches readers not to fool with MotherNature. But as you might expect from Seuss, all hope is notlost--the Once-ler has saved a single Truffula Tree seed! Our fatenow rests in the hands of a caring child, who becomes our lastchance for a clean, green future. (Ages 4 to 8) --This text refersto an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

小豆豆来到荒无人烟的地方，无意中遇到了奇怪的once-ler先生，小豆豆好奇的问这里发生了什么，once-ler给他讲述了这片荒地曾经发生过的故事：从前这里是片生机盎然的草原，自从贪婪的once-ler先生发现树可以给他带来丰厚的利润后，他就开始疯狂的砍伐这些树，树越来越少，小精灵Lorax提醒他不能这样，这样做下去，once-ler会什么也得不到，但是once-ler依然一意孤行，*后小精灵Lorax走了，大树也没了，小鸟再也不能唱歌了！在听完这个故事后，once-ler先生给了小豆豆一个种子，希望他能改变这一切。