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Oh The Places You Ll Go Book Report

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A year ago, I bought a small, wispy notebook for a dollar at target. It contains only 82 pages, each about the size of my palm. All of them are made from the same thin, grey paper used in newspapers. On the cover of the book is a picture from the children’s story Oh, the Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Suess (Theodor Seuss Geisel). It shows the main character in the tale, a small man dressed entirely in yellow, laughing as he sails a hot air balloon across a cotton ball cloud sky. As its cover suggests, I have written the places I will one day travel to inside the notebook. Depicted inside are destinations, like the Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia, Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona and the historic city of Bagan in Myanmer. All would find …show more content…

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