How+the+Grinch+Stole+Christmas

** By Dr. Seuss ** **//__ READER 1 __//** Every //Who// Down in //Who-//ville Liked Christmas a lot. . .    But the Grinch, Who lived just north of //Who-//ville. Did NOT! **// READER 2 //** The Grinch //hated// Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It //could// be his head wasn’t screwed on just right. It //could// be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all May have been that his heart was two sizes too small. ** READER 3 ** But, Whatever the reason, His heart or his shoes, He stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the //Whos,// Staring down from his cave with a sour, Grinchy frown At the warm lighted windows below in their town. For he knew every //Who// down in //Who-//ville beneath Was busy now, hanging a mistletoe wreath. **// READER 4 //** “And they’re hanging their stockings!” he snarled with a sneer. “Tomorrow is Christmas! It’s practically here!” Then he growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming, “I MUST find some way to stop Christmas form coming!” ** READER 5 ** For, Tomorrow, he knew. . . .   All the //Who// girls and boys Would wake bright and early. They’d rush for their toys! And //then!// Oh, the noise! Oh, the Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise! That’s //one// thing he hated! The NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! **// READER 6 //** Then the //Whos//, young and old, would sit sown to a feast. And they’d feast! //And they’d feast!// And they’d FEAST! FEAST! FEAST! FEAST! They would feast on //Who//-pudding, and rare //Who-//roast-beast Which was something the Grinch couldn’t stand in the least. **// READER 7 //** And THEN They’d do something He liked least of all! Every //Who// down in //Who-//ville, the tall and the small, Would stand close together, with Christmas bells ringing. They’d stand hand-in-hand. And the //Whos// would start singing! “Jingle Bells” “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” “Welcome Christmas Day” **// READER 8 //** They’d sing! //And they’d sing!// AND they’d SING! SING! SING! SING! And the more the Grinch thought of this //Who//-Christmas-Sing, The more the Grinch thought, “I must stop this whole thing! “Why, for fifty-three years I’ve put up with it now! “I MUST stop this Christmas from coming! . . . . . //But HOW?”// **// READER 9 //** Then he got an idea! // An awful idea! //  THE GRINCH GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA! “I know //just// what to do!” The Grinch laughed in his throat. And he made a quick Santy Claus hat and a coat. And he chuckled, and clucked, “What a great Grinchy trick! “With this coat and this hat, I look just like Saint Nick!” ** READER 10 ** “All I need is a reindeer. . . “   The Grinch looked around. But, since reindeer are scare, there was none to be found. Did that stop the old Grinch. . . .?   No! The Grinch simply said, “If I can’t //find// a reindeer, I’ll //make// one instead!” So he called his dog, Max. Then he took some red thread And he tied a big horn on the top of his head. Grade 2 **//“Rudolph//**” **// READER 11 //** THEN He loaded some bags And some old empty sacks On a ramshackle sleigh And he hitched up old Max. **// READER 12 //** Then the Grinch said,”Giddap!” And the sleigh started down Toward the homes where the //Whos// Lay a-snooze in their town. **// READER 13 //** All their windows were dark. Quiet snow filled the air, All the //Whos// were all dreaming sweet dreams without care, When he came to the first little house on the square. “This is stop number one,” the old Grinchy Claus hissed And he climbed to the roof, empty bags in his fist. Then he slid down the chimney. A rather tight pinch. But, if Santa could do it, then so could the Grinch. He got stuck only once, for a moment or two. Then he stuck his head out of the fireplace flue Where the little //Who// stockings all hung in a row. “These stocking,” he grinned, “are the //first// things to go!” **// READER 14 //** Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most unpleasant, Around the whole room, and he took every present! Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimney! Grade 2 **//Jolly Old Saint Nicholas//** **// Up On The House Top //** **// READER 15 //** Then he slunk to the icebox. He took the //Whos// feast! He took the //Who//-pudding! He took the roast beast! He cleansed out the icebox as quick as a flash. Why, that Grinch even took their last can of //Who//-hash! **// READER 16 //** Then he stuffed all the food up the chimney with glee. “And NOW!” grinned the Grinch, “I will stuff up the tree!” **// READER 17 //** And the Grinch grabbed the tree, and he started to shove When he heard a small sound like the coo of a dove. He turned around fast, and he saw a small //Who!// Little Cindy-Lou //Who//, who was not more than two. **// READER 18 //** The Grinch had been caught by this tiny //Who// daughter Who’d got out of bed for a cup of cold water. She stared at the Grinch and said, “Santy Claus, why, // “Why // are you taking our Christmas tree? WHY?” **// READER 19 //** But, you know, that old Grinch was so smart and so slick He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick! “Why, my sweet little tot,” the fake Santy Claus lied, “There’s a light on this tree that won’t light on one side. “So I’m taking it home to my workshop, my dear. “I’ll fix it up //there//. Then I’ll bring it back //here.’// **// READER 20 //** And his fib fooled the child. Then he patted her head And he got her a drink and he sent her to bed. And when Cindy-Lou //Who// went to bed with her cup, HE went to the chimney and stuffed the tree up! Grade 3 “Where Are You Christmas” “Jingle Bell Rock” “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” **// READER 21 //** Then the //last// thing he took Was the log for their fire! Then he went up the chimney, himself, the old liar. On their walls he left nothing but hooks and some wire. And the one speck of food That he left in the house Was a crumb that was even too small for a mouse. **// READER 22 //** Then He did the //same// thing To the //other Who’s// houses **// REDER 23 //** Leaving crumbs Much too small For the other //Whos’// mouses! **// READER 24 //** It was quarter past dawn. . . . .   All the //Whos,// still a-bed, All the //Whos//, Still a-snooze When he packed up his sled, Packed it up with their presents! The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings! **// READER 25 //** Three thousand feet up! Up the side of Mt. Crumpit, He rode with his load to the tiptop to dump it! “Pooh-Pooh to the //Whos!”// he was grinch-ish-ly humming. “They’re finding out now that no Christmas is coming! “They’re just waking up! I know //just// what they’ll do! “Their mouths will hang open a minute or two “Then the //Whos// down in //Who-//ville will all cry BOO-HOO! Grade 4 “Mister Grinch” **// READER 26 //** “That’s a noise,” grinned the Grinch, “That I simply MUST hear!” So he paused. And the Grinch put his hand to his ear. And he //did// hear a sound rising over the snow. It started in low. Then it started to grow. . . .   **// READER 27 //** But the sound wasn’t //sad!// Why, this sound sounded //merry!// It //couldn’t// be so! But it WAS merry! VERY! **// READER 28 //** He stared down at //Who//-ville! The Grinch popped his eyes! Then he shook! What he saw was a shocking surprise! **// READER 29 //** Every //Who// down in //Who//-ville, the tall and the small, Was singing! Without any presents at all! He HADN’T stopped Christmas from coming! IT CAME! Somehow or other, it came just the same! “Welcome Christmas” “Silent Night” **// READER 30 //** And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow, Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How //could// it be so? “It came without ribbons! It came without tags! “It came without packages, boxes or bags!” And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore. // Then // the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! “Maybe Christmas,” he though, “//doesn’t// come from a store. “Maybe Christmas. . . perhaps. . .means a little bit more.” **// READER 31 //** And what happened //then//. . . ?   Well. . . in //Who//-ville they say That the Grinch’s small heart Grew three sizes that day! And the minute his heart didn’t feel quite so tight, He whizzed with his load through the bright morning light And he brought back the toys! And the food for the feast! **// READER 32 //** And he. . .    . . .HE HIMSELF. . . !  // The Grinch carved the roast beast! //
 * __ How The Grinch Stole Christmas __**

Entire School “Welcome Christmas”+ “Where Are You Christmas” reprise