You're Only Old Once!: A Book for Obsolete Children

Great book about getting old and going to the doctors office. Like all Dr. Seuss books it is very colorful and fun to read as well as look at. Be careful when you are old and go to the doctors office, they will want to do a lot of strange tests on you.

Loved it. But I prefer "Antique Child" to "Obsolete Child"!

Beginner books by Dr. Seuss are still fun, even if you're not a beginner reader any more.

This has existed for 22 years, and I never saw it before!! I have to admit that I might not have really appreciated it 22 years ago. Very funny.

rhyming and repeative book. Awesome book to read to children when you want them to understand the good things they will encounter in life. It also is good to read to a child that needs funny encouragment so they will visit the doctor.

You're Only Old Once is a story about old people and all of the pills and medications that they are perscribed. It goes through different kinds of doctors and what they can perscribe. Very fun!
Type: picture book, intermediate
Genre: Fantasy
Illustrations: painted

Not my favorite Dr. Seuss book, but still a lot of great stuff in it. I'd like to live in the faraway land with no smelly bad traffic!

Got old, didja, Doc? As do we all...

This is a good book for Dr. Seuss week/day. It's AR reading level is 7.0 and for the lesson plan with word detectives, the children learned a lot of words!

In the familiar Dr. Suess vein, but not quite as charming as his children's books.

You're Only Old Once by Dr. Seuss
Funny at times when a man goes to his annual physical exam, he will be lucky to make it out with his clothes on.
Whimsical rhyming tale of how doctors will find something wrong with you and have you referred to yet another doctor although you are having no symptoms.
I

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received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).

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Dr. Seuss books are always such wonderful books to read to students. I really like this book because I had never read this book before.

Returned books to the Hershey library and was snorting around, mainly looking in the non-fiction section, trying to find the area for collections of articles, essays, etc (was primarily looking for Vonnegut's book of his college speeches.... which I found), and I came across this. I had never heard

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of it, so I had to pick it up and give it a read.

It's a Dr. Seuss book (by Dr. Seuss, not one of the fill-ins after he passed away) with his own illustrations and everything, aimed at 70 year olds, about getting old, and having to wait in a doctor's office and the litany of tests that doctors do to people as they age.

Very funny book, Dr. Seuss was an amazing poet in both the way he did children's books, and this one as well. I'm surprised I'd never heard of this before, it should be in all retirement homes..... (ha!)

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This one is a picture book, but aimed at adults. It follows an older man getting poked and prodded and checked by doctors. Having read this immediately after The Lorax, it wasn't quite as engaging. I found there were more made-up words that I stumbled through a little bit, through to the end of the

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book, not just at the beginning. However, it is still a humourous look at aging. The pictures, of course, add to the humour.

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This is a fun romp for Ted Geisel's last book, although it will only appeal to the child in you! A funny look at the pitfalls of ageing, it speaks to the old adage, "growing old ain't for sissies!"

Like everyone, surely, with a whimsical or imaginative bone in their body, I adored Dr. Seuss as a kid. And now, at a couple weeks shy of forty-nine, I figured I was about old enough to read his book for folks on the other end of the age spectrum, about the experience of being poked and prodded

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(and billed) by doctors as they investigate what kind of shape your aging body is in. And I was right. I was. The bit about the guy who carefully and scientifically tests you to find out what foods you like best and then forbids you to them made me laugh a loud, rueful, all-too-familiar laugh.

Anyway, this was cute and fun and Seussian, and it kind of made me feel like a kid again for a moment, albeit a kid with bifocals and and annoying low-salt diet.

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