My first Dr Seuss rewrite, this time it's "The Sneetches" Enjoy and comment.
In a land far away, farther than the eye can see, is a strange little place with a unknown name.
And in this little place, live strange little creatures called sneetches.
Now there are two types of sneetches, star-bellied sneetches with bright green stars, and plain-bellied sneetches with no stars at all.
Now you may think that having no stars would make things peaceful, but I'm sorry to say that things aren't so peaceful at all.
You see, the star-bellied sneetches think they are the greatest of all.
And they always make fun of the plain-bellied sneetches, saying "Who's the better of all?"
When the star-bellied sneetches pass by a plan-bellied sneetches, they would just walk by them, not even saying a word.
And when the star-bellied sneetches play ball, do you think a plain-bellied sneetch could play too?
Nope. Only sneetches with stars on their bellies could play ball.
When the star-bellied sneetches had hot-dog roasts, or picnics or parties, the plain bellied sneetches were banned, once and for all.
Year after year, the plain-bellied sneetches lived miserable lives.
Till one day, while the sneetches were resting, a man came up, with a strange looking car.
"I am Sylvester Mckeen, and I have the trick that will make you all proud!"
Just then, he unveiled the greatest of all machines, a machine that made stars!"
"For the low price of $3.95, you too can have stars, 100% guaranteed!"
And so the plain-bellied sneetches took out their wallets, and got into the machine.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you."
The machine bonked, and it clonked, but it did really work, and soon the plain-bellied sneetches came out with real stars on their bellies, 100% real stars, all guaranteed.
When the star-bellied sneetches found out that the plain-bellied sneetches now had stars on their bellies, they were absolutely shocked, and angry indeed.
Then Sylvester Mckeen came over to them.
"I have the machine that will make you, once again, the best sneetches in the land. For just ten bucks apiece, you'll be better than ever after going through the un-star machine!"
"Thank you, thank you, thank you."
The other sneetches were so frightfully mad because wearing a star was now frightfully bad.
And after that, things got frightfully worse.
The rest of the day, the sneetches went in and out of the star and unstar machines, in and out, out in in, until the sneetches ran out of money.
Sylvester Mckeen packed up and went, and said on his way "You can't teach a sneetch, not even one bit!"
But I must say that Sylvester was quite wrong, for the sneetches became much smarter that day.
They decided that sneetches were sneetches, and that every sneetch was the same, just like you and me, no matter if they had a star on their belly, or none.