Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

Dr. Seuss
Ej Se

A little boy who feels sad and blue learns that he is lucky after listening to an old man talk of other people's misfortunes—Baker & Taylor



"I received this book for Christmas when I was about 5 and the message is simple—be thankful for your life as there are always others that are less fortunate. It was an important message throughout my life and seems especially relevant today."—Submitted by Paula GO., Web Administrator


Bicentennial Staff Picks

  • Oreo


  • Life


  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said


  • The Word Is Murder


  • I Know This Much is True


  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood


  • Dune


  • Castoff: The Strange Adventures of Petra De Winter and Bram


  • The Blue Sword


  • The Master and Margarita


  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


  • Feeling Sorry for Celia


  • The Johnstown Flood


  • To Kill A Mockingbird


  • Anne of Green Gables


  • Lost Horizon


  • Sunny


  • The Quilter's Apprentice


  • Dragon's Merry Christmas


  • Autobiography of an Execution


  • The Stand


  • The Little Prince


  • The Chronicles of Amber


  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking


  • Riddley Walker


  • Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters


  • The Index Card


  • Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction


  • The Last Wish


  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years


  • Braiding Sweetgrass


  • The Go-Between


  • Foundryside


  • The Snow Child


  • Running with Sherman


  • Birdie and Me


  • Know My Name: A Memoir


  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness


  • The House at Pooh Corner


  • VALIS


  • The Mistress of Spices


  • The Shell Seekers


  • The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works


  • Jane Eyre


  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


  • Dietland


  • Tropic of Cancer


  • Hopscotch


  • Look Both Ways : a Tale Told in Ten Blocks


  • The Universe in a Nutshell


  • Catch 22


  • Gilead


  • Big Sur


  • Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker


  • Through a Life


  • Fables. 8, Wolves


  • Three Things About Elsie


  • The College of Beer : The Story of Nick's English Hut


  • The Jordan Rules


  • Taproot : a story about a gardener and a ghost


  • Near to the Wild Heart


  • Dealing with Dragons


  • Parable of the Sower


  • Spoon River Anthology


  • Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality


  • The King's Stilts


  • In the Dust of This Planet


  • Dark of the Moon


  • Me Talk Pretty One Day


  • The Never Game


  • Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945


  • The Diary of a Young Girl


  • The Monkey's Raincoat


  • The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath


  • The Room : A Novel


  • Chloe's Vegan Desserts


  • Mouse Guard: Fall 1152


  • My Name is Asher Lev


  • Dangerous Laughter


  • The Stardust Road


  • The Woman in White


  • A Study in Scarlet Women


  • Stormy: A Story About Finding a Forever Home


  • Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero


  • Slaughterhouse Five


  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine


  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


  • The Ghost Clause


  • Six Seasons


  • True Grit


  • Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey


  • Cinder


  • Naked Lunch


  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles


  • Cry, Heart, But Never Break


  • East of Eden


  • One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish


  • Wolf Hall


  • Raintree County


  • The Music Lesson


  • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?


  • Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste


  • The Clan of the Cave Bear


  • Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art


  • The Essential Tales of Chekhov


  • The Lost Coast


  • A Little Princess


  • Foucault's Pendulum


  • Patriot Games


  • Oleanna


  • Simulacra and Simulation


  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book One


  • Matter : a Culture novel


  • Suttree


  • The Time Traveler's Wife


  • Ulysses


  • Clear and Present Danger


  • The Charterhouse of Parma


  • The Wild Robot


  • Robin


  • Illuminatus! Trilogy


  • The Murderer's Ape


  • The Silmarillion


  • The Eye of Minds


  • Watchmen


  • Siddhartha


  • Copper Beach


  • The Friend


  • Fog Island


  • Pretty Deadly, Volume One: The Shrike


  • Once & Future, Volume 1


  • Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein


  • X'ed Out


  • Unterzakhn


  • The Luster of Lost Things


  • Do Fish Sleep?


  • The Lifespan of a Fact


  • The Brothers Karamazov


  • Providence


  • The Color Monster


  • Warrior of the Wild


  • Hawkeye omnibus


  • Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World


  • Prelude to Bruise


  • On A Sunbeam


  • The Story of Ferdinand


  • Persepolis


  • Rural Free


  • Their Eyes Were Watching God


  • The New Moosewood Cookbook


  • My Brother's Husband, Vol. 1


  • Giver of Stars


  • The Library


  • Communing With The Divine: A Clairvoyant's Guide To Angels, Archangels and the Spiritual Hierarchy


  • Under the Volcano


  • The Goldfinch


  • Station Eleven


  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid


  • Figuring


  • The Shipping News


  • His Majesty's Dragon


  • The Life and Art of Felrath Hines : from dark to light


  • A Clockwork Orange


  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms


  • Dawn


  • Snotgirl Vol. 1


  • The Girl From Rawblood


  • The Pirate Coast


  • Star Wars : from a certain point of view : 40 stories celebrating 40 years of Star Wars


  • Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks


  • Wired


  • The Raven Boys


  • Cannery Row


  • The Road Less Traveled


  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City


  • War and Peace


  • Dragon Bound


  • Little Bear


  • Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s


  • Nitro --The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapes of Ted Turner's WCW


  • The Lord of the Rings


  • The Woman in the Dunes


  • What is the What


  • Daisy Jones & The Six


  • Travels With Charley


  • Dune Messiah


  • In Full Color


  • The Licanius Trilogy


  • The Lost Words: A Spell Book


  • Growth of the Soil


  • The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy


  • Wild Beauty


  • Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow


  • Strange Planet


  • The Far Field


  • Why You Like This Photo : the Science of Perception


  • The Rest is Noise


  • The Snowy Day


  • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale