Lorax, completing 90 per cent of it in a single afternoon on the only paper to hand, a laundry list.

It’s a vivid nonsense poem with a sombre ecological message, in his usual bouncy anapestic tetrameter, full of invented words and names, all of which have their own logic in the nonsense world. It’s also, as always, brilliantly illustrated by Seuss, in his flowing, whirly way, with a powerful shift in the colour palette towards dark greys, blues and maroons as the story progresses.

In the first two illustrations, an unnamed boy, standing in for “you”, the reader, is seen approaching the Once-ler, lurking in his Lerkim — and then the Once-ler begins his tale, of how long ago he chopped down the Truffula trees to make Thneeds out ofFounder Profile

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Residents Flee New Jersey in 2010, Moving Survey Finds

More people moved out of New Jersey than any other state in 2010, according to a national survey by United Van Lines , a moving company that has been tracking state-by-state migration patterns for 34 years.

The District of Columbia attracted the most new residents for the third straight year, according to the survey, which uses household moving data collected by United to determine high "inbound"- and "outbound"-traffic states.

The survey's methodology, of course, is far from perfect, since it tracks only moving orders involving United and