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  • In Horton Hatches the Egg, the egg ends up hatching into an elephant-bird.
  • At the end of Scrambled Eggs Super!, Peter claims that the dish tasted like Scrambled Eggs Super-de-Dooper.
  • If I Ran the Circus:
    • Morris repeatedly asserting that Sneelock won't mind the circus.
    • The Snumm, who drums on his belly, and it doesn't hurt because his belly is numb.
  • What starts off The Cat in the Hat Comes Back is that the Cat in the Hat left frosting in the bathtub, because he was eating cake there.
    Cat: "But I like eating cake in the tub. You should try it some time."
  • Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories: In "Gertrude McFuzz", Gertrude's feathers are described as sparkling like spaghetti.
  • One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish:
    • The narration not knowing the reason for some of the animals' attributes and telling the reader to go ask their parents.
    • The Nook, who tries to read a cookbook, but he's illiterate.
    • The kids encouraging the reader to fly a kite in bed, walk with ten cats on their head, and milk a strange kind of cow.
    • The creature replying to the other one on the phone despite allegedly not being able to hear him.
  • Green Eggs and Ham:
    • Even though the grumpy guy grumbled out loud about disliking Sam-I-Am, the latter still cheerfully walks up to him and says, "Do you like green eggs and ham?".
    • Sam-I-Am's Insane Troll Logic where he thinks that the other guy will change his mind about not liking green eggs and ham if he eats them in a different place, with an animal, or in the rain.
    • The grumpy guy saying, "I do not like green eggs and ham!" underwater.
  • Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book:
    • One guy uses marbles to keep a tally of who's asleep.
    • Two men who appear to be brothers or cousins named Jo and Mo Redd-Zoff have turned sleep-talking into a sport and actually have coherent conversations in their sleep. They apparently sometimes have legal conversations, but other times they just talk about Santa Claus.
    • The Hoop-Soup-Snoop Group, who sleepwalk with hoops, occasionally stopping to "snoop for soup".
    • The Chippendale Mupp, who bites his tail before bed because it's so long, it takes eight hours to feel it.
  • Dr. Seuss's ABC:
    • One page features a duckdog, which is just what it sounds like.
    • Oscar oiling an owl.
    • The "P" page features two men standing in pails for no reason.
    • On the "W" page, Willy Waterloo hoses down Warren Wiggins, who is sitting in a wooden tub, scrubbing the back of Waldo Woo, who is in his own wooden tub.
  • Hop on Pop:
  • Fox in Socks:
    • This book has many Cloudcuckoolanders — Sue and Slow Joe Crow, who keep sewing things to other things, Luke Luck who drinks from lakes with his tongue, Bim and Ben who break brooms for fun, and the Tweetle-Beetles who fight in a bottle of water on top of a noodle-eating poodle (Mr. Fox even lampshades how crazy the latter is by adding "muddle" to the name of the battle when the poodle enters the equation).
    • When Mr. Fox invites Mr. Knox to chew the blue goo with the Goo Goose, Knox says that not only can he not say it, but he won't do it.
    • Mr. Knox declaring that he can't "blab such blibber blubber" because his tongue "isn't made of rubber".
    • Mr. Fox's nonsense poem about flying fleas and cheese trees.
  • I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories:
    • In "I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!", the Cat in the Hat's son claims he can "lick" (i.e. defeat) thirty tigers, but chickens out and finds excuses like some of them are too small, others look tired, etc.
    • "King Looie Katz" ends with the cats being described as "diplo-catic".
    • In "The Glunk That Got Thunk", the Glunk thinks raspberries are berries that are "razz".
  • Some of the sounds in Mr. Brown Can Moo. Can You? include a goldfish kiss and a hippopotamus chewing gum.
  • One of the ways to "go" in Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now? is by mail.
  • Oh the Thinks You Can Think! features a horse race where the horses are standing on balls and the riders are wearing fish tanks on their heads.
  • I Can Read with My Eyes Shut:
    • One of the things to read about is what to do if there's an owl on your nose.
    • The reason the Cat doesn't read with his eyes shut often is because it's "bad for [his] hat" and scorches his eyebrows.
  • The protagonist of I am NOT Going to Get Up Today! is a Lazy Bum who insists on sleeping in, even if his family tickles him, calls the police, or sends in the military. He also notes that he doesn't care if the neighbours want him up, since he doesn't like them anyway.
  • Daisy-Head Mayzie: One of the things that was merchandised when Mayzie was famous was daisy-head sinks.
  • The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Tales:
  • I Wish That I Had Duck Feet:
    • One of the boy's reasons for wanting duck feet is he wouldn't have to wear shoes.
    • The boy wants a trunk so that he can knock over bullies by sneezing, but decides not to have one, lest his dad make him wash things with it.
    • The boy fantasises about having duck feet, antlers, a trunk, and a whale spout, and being a "which-what-who".
  • Wacky Wednesday:
    • The worm chasing a bird, the mouse chasing a cat, and the fish fishing for a man.
    • The trees growing out of the toilet and the chimney.
    • The woman pushing a tiger in her pram. Later, another woman has an alligator in her pram.
    • The headless boy and the bearded boy.
    • The baby pushing its mother in a pram.
    • The pig with bird feet.

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