Editing Dr. Seuss (section)

===In his children's books===
Geisel made a point of not beginning to write his stories with a moral in mind, stating that "kids can see a moral coming a mile off." He was not against writing about issues, however; he said that "there's an inherent moral in any story",<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Bunzel |first=Peter |date=April 6, 1959 |title=The Wacky World of Dr. Seuss Delights the Child—and Adult—Readers of His Books |magazine=[[Life (magazine)|Life]] | location=Chicago | issn=0024-3019 | oclc =1643958 | quote =Most of Geisel's books point a moral, though he insists that he never starts with one. 'Kids,' he says, 'can see a moral coming a mile off and they gag at it. But there's an inherent moral in any story.' }}</ref> and he remarked that he was "subversive as hell."<ref>{{cite book |last=Cott |first=Jonathan |title=Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: The Wisdom of Children's Literature |edition=Reprint |year=1984 |publisher=[[Random House]] |location=New York City |isbn=978-0-394-50464-3 |oclc=8728388 |chapter=The Good Dr. Seuss |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/pipersatgatesofd00cott }}</ref>

Geisel's books express his views on a wide variety of social and political issues: ''[[The Lorax]]'' (1971), about environmentalism and [[anti-consumerism]]; ''[[The Sneetches and Other Stories|The Sneetches]]'' (1961), about [[racial equality]]; ''[[The Butter Battle Book]]'' (1984), about the [[arms race]]; ''[[Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories|Yertle the Turtle]]'' (1958), about [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[anti-authoritarianism]]; ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas!]]'' (1957), criticizing the [[economic materialism]] and [[consumerism]] of the Christmas season; and ''[[Horton Hears a Who!]]'' (1954), about anti-[[isolationism]] and [[Internationalism (politics)|internationalism]].<ref name="new yorker 2002" /><ref name="hayley">{{cite web |title=Interview with filmmaker Ron Lamothe about ''The Political Dr. Seuss'' |url=http://www.mfh.org/lamotheinterview/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070916044241/http://www.mfh.org/lamotheinterview/ |author=Wood, Hayley and Ron Lamothe (interview) |work=MassHumanities eNews |publisher=Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities |date=August 2004 |archive-date=September 16, 2007 |access-date=September 16, 2008 }}</ref>