The Butter Battle Book was animated and directed by Ralph Bakshi in 1989. The story is about the Yooks and the Zooks, who are separated by a wall and only have one difference: what side of their toast do they butter — the top or the bottom? A similar idea was used in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, as the people from Lilliput and Blefuscu waged perpetual war over the right way to eat an egg. The mutual dislike between the Yooks and Zooks leads to an escalating arms race. Charles Durning plays the grandfather.

The final story is Daisy-Head Mayzie, which was first turned into a cartoon and then published in 1995 after Seuss’ death. The Cat in the Hat narrates the story about this young girl who sprouts a daisy out of her head. She becomes a celebrity around town and eventually leaves home under the wing of an agent, which she finds unsatisfying. Unlike the other cartoons the moral is directly stated for the viewer. This one doesn’t have the same magic as the others, which is likely why nothing ever came of it while Seuss was alive.

The Horton Deluxe Edition includes two features. There’s a star-studded 90-minute documentary from 1994 called In Search of Dr Suess that examines the man and his work. It is extremely silly, probably to engage children, and is likely along the lines of something Seuss would have enjoyed. Kathy Najimy plays a reporter trying to tell the story of his life and runs across a number of his characters and reads excerpts from his book. In a separate feature, the songs from Horton Hears A Who! are used in a sing-along but instead of the bouncing ball you follow the bouncing dust speck.

Horton Hears a Who! will have a special appeal to Gen-X kids who grew up with it and should still engage children of the 21st century “no matter how small.”