

The flowers are cut by the Who-Bubs so that they can be piled on fifty Hippo-Heimer’s backs and taken home for you to smell. They smell like all sorts of things including licorice and cheese. Then they head to the Birthday Flower Jungle where the best-sniffing flowers are grown to be sniffed by your own private nose. When they reach the sounding off place they shout at the top of their lungs He just isn’t present.īut you…You ARE YOU! And, now isn’t that pleasant!” Or worse than all that…Why, you might be a WASN’T!Ī Wasn’t has no fun at all. You might be a fish! Or a toad in a tree! If you’d never been born, well then what would you be? If you’d never been born, well then what would you do? “If we didn’t have birthdays, you wouldn’t be you. While the reader watches the Birthday Bird and “You” climb many stairs to the Katroo Sounding-Off Place the narrator explains: The trays are covered with all sorts of delicious food. A Smorgasbord, in this case, is a Seussian beast that has trays and chairs on like a saddle. The bird and “you” get up really early so you don’t waste a minute then you have a snack on a Smorgasbord’s back. To take us through the story there is a little blonde boy that represents the “You” part of the story. When you meet the bird you do the Secret Katroo Birthday Hi-Sign-and-Shake.

Like Santa Claus, the Birthday Bird knows where you live and on your birthday heads straight for your room. With the brainiest bird-brain that’s ever been trained.” The Birthday Bird has been specially trained by the Katroo Happy Birthday Asso-see-eye-ation. “Wake Up! For today is your Day of all Days!” Zorn and blows the big Birthday Horn which calls out: The story opens with the narrator explaining the birthday traditions in the land of Katroo. First, the Birthday Honk-Honker hikes up to Mt.
