Happy Birthday to You!
{{Short description|1959 children's book by Dr. Seuss}}{{About|the Dr. Seuss book|the traditional song|Happy Birthday to You|other uses|Happy Birthday (disambiguation){{!}}Happy Birthday}}
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{{Infobox book
| name = Happy Birthday to You!
| image = Happy Birthday to You.jpg
| caption =
| author = Dr. Seuss
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Children's literature
| publisher = Random House
| pub_date = 1959 (renewed in 1987)
| media_type = Print (hardcover and paperback)
| pages = 64 pages
| isbn =
| preceded_by = Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
| followed_by = One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
}} {{Portal |Children's literature}}
Happy Birthday to You! is a 1959 children's book by Dr. Seuss, the first all-color picture book.{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/43025/happy-birthday-to-you-by-dr-seuss/9780394800769/|title=Happy Birthday to You! by Dr. Seuss|website=PenguinRandomHouse.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-11}}
==Plot==
It deals with a fantastic land called Katroo, where the Birthday Bird throws the reader an amazing party on their special day. It consists of a running description of a fantastical celebration, narrated in the second person, of the reader's birthday, from dawn to late night.
The celebration includes fantastical and colorful gifts, foods and a whirl of activities all arranged by the Birthday Bird for the reader's birthday. It focuses on the reader's self-actualization and concludes with the happy and exhausted reader falling blissfully asleep.
A popular Seuss paragraph in this book reads: "Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you".{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/dec/11/dr-seuss-best-quotes-oh-the-places-youll-go|title='Oh, the places you'll go!' The best Dr Seuss quotes|last=Murphy|first=Ciara|date=2015-12-11|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-11-11}}
==Adaptations==
Although Happy Birthday to You! was not directly adapted, The Birthday Bird appears in an episode of The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss.{{Cite web|url=https://omnilibraries.overdrive.com/media/1886697|title=Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Season 1, The Birthday Moose|website=Online Media of Northern Illinois Libraries|language=en|access-date=2018-11-11}}
The book is dedicated to the author's "good friends" and "The Children of San Diego County".{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ScdVDQAAQBAJ|title=Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays On the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel|last=Fensch|first=Thomas|publisher=BookBaby|year=1997|isbn=9780996315463|language=en}}