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= What is a Lorax I hear you say? =

**I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I am shortish. ****And oldish. And brownish. And mossy. And I speak with a voice that’s sharpish and bossy. **

 media type="youtube" key="lNnXEDUb_zw" height="315" width="420" align="left" ** The Lorax is Dr. Seuss' 33rd book and was even banned in some schools in California. ** **A movie was released in 2012 staring the Lorax, played by Danny Devito. ** ** The book is about a young boy living in a polluted grim world visits a strange cre **** ature called the Once-ler. **** The Once-ler explains to the boy that when he arrived in the world, it was a beautiful place containing bright-coloured ‘Truffula trees’. When he felt how soft the trees where he had the idea to cut them down and make ‘Thneeds’, an invention that he thinks everyone will need.The Lorax, a small orange creature, appears from the stump of a truffula tree. He "speaks for the trees" and warns the Once-ler of the consequences of cutting down the truffula trees, but the Once-ler ignores him. ** ** Eventually the final Truffula tree is cut down, and without Truffulas the Once-ler cannot make any more Thneeds. This leads to the closure of ** ** Once-ler's factory and the disappearance of the Lorax. **