One of the themes for ALDI special buys this weekend (from 10 August 2024) is Book Week. What jumped out at me was the cut-price selection of Dr. Seuss titles on offer. It’s the second year in a row ALDI has run this deal.
ALDI is selling the books for $4.99, which is a big discount on the recommended retail price of $11.99. That said, you don’t usually have to pay full price. Both Big W and Amazon routinely sell the Seuss titles for $8 each.
Here’s the full list of the titles ALDI has on offer, in order of publication. I suspect you’d have to go to a few stores to be sure of getting all 20 of them.
- Horton Hatches The Egg (1940)
- Horton Hears A Who (1954)
- The Cat In The Hat (1957)
- How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1957)
- The Cat In The Hat Comes Back (1958)
- Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? (1958)
- Yertle The Turtle And Other Stories (1958)
- Happy Birthday To You (1959)
- Green Eggs And Ham (1960)
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
- The Sneetches And Other Stories (1961)
- I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1963)
- Hop On Pop (1963)
- Fox In Socks (1965)
- Ten Apples Up On Top (1969)
- The Lorax (1971)
- Oh, The Thinks You Can Think! (1975)
- Oh, The Places You’ll Go! (1990)
- What Pet Should I Get? (2015)
- Love From Dr. Seuss (2019)
This is almost identical to what ALDI sold in 2023. Three new titles have been added: Horton Hears A Who, Fox In Socks and The Lorax (yay! – that’s my favourite Seuss). Three have been dropped: The Eye Book, Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book and Come Over To My House.
That’s a healthy slice of Seuss, but it’s far from everything he wrote. Obviously it doesn’t include the six titles which were withdrawn from the market in 2021 because they contained insensitive and/or potentially offensive imagery: And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street (1937), If I Ran The Zoo (1950), McElligot’s Pool (1947), On Beyond Zebra! (1955), Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953) and The Cat’s Quizzer (1976). But what else is missing?
Here are the main Seuss titles that didn’t make the cut in the ALDI sale. I haven’t included colouring books, compilations, stuff written under other names or new material that reuses existing Seuss illustrations. (Pedant note: Love from Dr. Seuss, which ALDI is selling, falls into that category.)
- The 500 Hats Of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938)
- The King’s Stilts (1939)
- The Seven Lady Godivas (1939)
- Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose (1948)
- Bartholomew And The Oobleck (1949)
- Gerald McBoing Boing (1952)
- If I Ran The Circus (1956)
- The Eye Book (1959)
- Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book (1962)
- Dr. Seuss’s ABC (1963)
- Come Over To My House (1966)
- The Foot Book (1968)
- I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! And Other Stories (1969)
- Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! (1972)
- Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973)
- The Shape Of Me And Other Stuff (1973)
- There’s A Wocket In My Pocket! (1974)
- Great Day For Up! (1974)
- I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978)
- Oh Say Can You Say? (1979)
- Hunches In Bunches (1982)
- The Butter Battle Book (1984)
- You’re Only Old Once! (1986)
- I Am Not Going To Get Up Today! (1987)
- The Tough Coughs As He Ploughs The Dough (1987)
- Daisy-Head Mayzie (1995)
- My Many Colored Days (1996)
- Hooray For Diffendoofer Day! (1998)
- The Bippolo Seed And Other Lost Stories (2011)
- Horton and the Kwuggerbug And More Lost Stories (2014)
- Dr. Seuss’s Horse Museum (2019)
The lesson here? There’s definitely a “core” Seuss canon, and it’s largely what ALDI sells each year – especially with the 2024 revisions.
This analysis was originally published in 2023, but I’ve updated it with the titles added and removed in 2024. The pricing didn’t change.
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