Great Day for Up!

1974 book by Dr. Seuss

9780394829135 ^[1]Preceded byThere's a Wocket in My Pocket! Followed byOh, the Thinks You Can Think!

Great Day for Up! is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It was published by Random House on August 28, 1974.^[2] It is the first Seuss book not illustrated by the author himself.

Plot

The narrator says that today is a good day for things to go up. As more things are described as getting up, at the very end, the narrator is revealed to be a boy who does not want to get up and wants to sleep in. This ending would later be expanded into I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!.^[3]

References

^ Great Day for Up!, Book Details. "Great Day for Up! information". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
^ Great Day for Up!, Book Details. "Great Day for Up! information". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
^ Dr. Seuss (1974). Great Day for Up!. Beginner Books. OCLC 902800.

External links

Great Day for Up! read by David Selman

Dr. Seuss

Characters

The Grinch
Horton the Elephant
Bartholomew Cubbins

Bibliography

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
The King's Stilts
The Seven Lady Godivas
Horton Hatches the Egg
McElligot's Pool
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
Bartholomew and the Oobleck
If I Ran the Zoo
Scrambled Eggs Super!
Horton Hears a Who!
On Beyond Zebra!
If I Ran the Circus
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
Happy Birthday to You!
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Green Eggs and Ham
The Sneetches and Other Stories
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
Dr. Seuss's ABC
Hop on Pop
Fox in Socks
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
I Wish That I Had Duck Feet ¹
Come over to My House ¹
The Foot Book
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories
My Book about ME
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?: Dr. Seuss's Book of Wonderful Noises!
The Lorax
Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
There's a Wocket in My Pocket
Great Day for Up!
Wacky Wednesday ¹
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
The Cat's Quizzer
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
Oh Say Can You Say?
Hunches in Bunches
The Butter Battle Book
You're Only Old Once!
I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Daisy-Head Mayzie ²
My Many Colored Days ²
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! ²
The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories ²
Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories ²
What Pet Should I Get? ²
Horse Museum ²

Adaptations

Television series	The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show (1956–1957) The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss (1996–1998) Gerald McBoing-Boing (2005–2007) The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! (2010–2018) episodes Green Eggs and Ham (2019–2022)
Television specials	Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) Horton Hears a Who! (1970) The Cat in the Hat (1971) The Lorax (1972) Dr. Seuss on the Loose (1973) The Hoober-Bloob Highway (1975) Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977) Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? (1980) The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (1982) The Butter Battle Book (1989) In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994) Daisy-Head Mayzie (1995)
Film	Horton Hatches the Egg (short; 1942) Gerald McBoing-Boing (short; 1950) How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) The Cat in the Hat (2003) Horton Hears a Who! (2008) The Lorax (2012) The Grinch (2018) The Mean One (2022)
Video games	Dr. Seuss' Fix-Up the Mix-Up Puzzler (1984) The Grinch (2000) The Cat in the Hat (2003) Dr. Seuss: Green Eggs and Ham (2003) Dr. Seuss: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2007)
Other media	Welcome (Russian short film) Seussical (musical) Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" (song) The Cat in the Hat (play) The Lorax (musical) Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Musical Live! (musical) Dr. Seuss's ABC (musical) Green Eggs and Ham (musical) The Cat in the Hat (musical)