The Sneetches

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The Sneetches
Written and Illustrated by Dr. Seuss
Copyright 1961 by Dr. Seuss
Published by Random House, Inc.

The Sneetches is a picture book about two different groups of Sneetches, fictional beings, those with stars and those without. The Plain-Belly Sneetches are left out of many activities and thought to be of a lower class. They are not allowed to do the activities the Star-Bellied Sneetches can. A man with a machine changes the Plain-Bellied Sneetches into Star-Bellied Sneetches. The story follows all the Sneetches as they try to be the same as the others or are trying to distance themselves from the lesser Sneetches. In the end the Sneetches realize it doesn’t matter if you have a star or not, they are all Sneetches and should treat each other equally.