By Dr. Seuss
The big, loud, only-Seuss birthday book: the Great Birthday Bird of Katroo swoops in and gives one child a whole wild day of being celebrated just for being them.
It's your child's birthday, so the Great Birthday Bird flies them off to the faraway land of Katroo for the most gloriously over-the-top birthday anyone has ever had. There are Birthday Flowers and a Birthday Pig, a Smorgasbord breakfast, and a whole day built around one idea Seuss says out loud again and again: today you are you, and there is no one alive who is you-er than you. It rhymes and rolls and tumbles the way his books do, and it ends with a child who feels like the most important person in the world.
It's a birthday poured into a book — pure celebration of one child, by name and by feeling, with nothing to brace for. For a first birthday it's a grow-into gift: today it's a lap full of bright pictures and your happy voice, and in a few years it's the book they ask for every single birthday morning. The whole thing exists to tell a child they are wonderful exactly as they are.