A lot of his stuff is great, but sometimes he just makes shit up to fit the rhyme. Is that talent? It just seems lazy.
Example:
At our house, we open cans.
We have to open many cans.
And that is why we have a Zans.
A Zans for cans is very good.
Have you a Zans for cans?
You should.
Zans? Really? My daughter listens to these books and I cringe when I hear rhymes using the names of people or fictional creatures.
I thought everyone had a Zans for cans
They’re also good for pots and pans
And when you need to Zans your shoes
What else could you possibly use?
It’s a fun way to show beginning readers the versatility of language. Lighten up, Francis.
Try reciting it without flungers, kap-dabblers and smendlers.
Kids find them funny, usually. They’re also very good for helping kids learn to read - it makes them sit up and notice the onset-and-rime structure of those sorts of simple words.
I would use Ballaballoos
Cuz Ballaballoos are good for shoes
Though I admit when it comes to cans
Nothing can beat the strength of Zans.
Till they start arguing that Zans is a real word 
A large part of One Fish, Two Fish consists of poems about fictional creatures with silly names that happen to rhyme with their purpose. I think it’s called a joke. 
Zans for cans are really neat
They even double as a seat
Zans for cans are pretty cool
If you don’t have one you’re a fool
I never really like Dr. Seuss. The only book I can tolerate is Green Eggs and Ham
‘It’s only a real word in Dr Seuss. Other people don’t use it.’
That’s for those too young to notice that it isn’t a real word, which most kids from about 4 or 5 would - the context makes it obvious that it’s a joke, and kids do get it; otherwise, they wouldn’t find it funny, and it would just be a story about a tin-opener.
So you like Green Eggs and Ham, do you?
Where and how do you like it most?
In a house? With a mouse? In a box? With a fox? In a boat? With a goat? Here? There? Anywhere?
C’mon, what are your favorite conditions for reading that book?
With a Zans, maybe?
Yeah, and what the fuck is a jabberwock anyway? :mad:
It’s a kind of cake, isn’t it?
Shakespeare made up words, too, but no one complains about him…[/mock whine]
I quickly have to find a rhyme.
My publisher gives me a real hard time.
That’s why I invented the Zime.
Zans? Don’t even get me started on Sneetches!
Now the star-bellied sneetches had bellies with stars,
The plain-bellied sneetches had none upon thars.
Thars? Heh.
Good thing Dr. Seuss is part of the test to separate aliens from humans.
Have a nice flight back to your home planet.
You never like the Dr. Seuss?
His rhymes are lame, is your excuse?
You do not like him with a goose?
You do not like him when he’s loose?
Upon a moose?
Near a caboose?
On top a spruce?
Drinking chartreuse?
You do not like him, so you say.
But try him, try him, and you may.
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Well, heck, after all, Seuss wasn’t trying to write Poetry, just funny stuff for kids.
The Sneetches
Are perfect examples of complete beetches.