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Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! Maybe You Should Be a Vet!

by Theo LeSieg, Dr. Seuss · 1980

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Every child who has ever been asked that age-old question will find in this lively book a world of outlandish answers as well as real possibilities.

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This light-hearted, free-wheeling celebration of jobs plain and fancy should help children see that work is what you make it. At the same time, the catchy rhymes and funny pictures make it a perfect book for beginning readers to read—all by themselves.

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childhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrenspicture books
Length
short · 64 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of thisrhymingrhymingMore like thisLess of this

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