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* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: Per the norm for [[Creator/DrSeuss Dr.Seuss's]] stories.

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* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: Per the norm for [[Creator/DrSeuss Dr.Seuss's]] Seuss']] stories.



->"And [[Creator/DrSeuss I]] wish"
->"[[Creator/DrSeuss I]] could do"
->"All these great things for ''you!''"

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* CoolPet: The Birthday Bird offers "You" one as a present.

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* PetsAsAPresent: The Bird gives "You" several, including a Time-Telling Fish and some Hippo-Heimers.



-->"For Birthday luncheons, as a rule,"
-->"We serve hot dogs, rolled on a spool."

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-->"For Birthday luncheons, as a rule,"
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* UnclePennybags: The Birthday Bird seems to be this since he doesn't seem to care about expenses.
-->"I'll have shipped home to you, Birthday Express."
-->"That costs quite a lot. But I couldn't care less."
-->"Today is your birthday! Today You are You!"
-->"So what if it costs me a thousand or two."

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* UnclePennybags: The Birthday Bird seems to be this this, since he doesn't seem to care about expenses.
expenses when sending one of the PetsAsAPresent to "Your" home.
-->"I'll have shipped home to you, Birthday Express."
-->"That
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That
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Today is your birthday! Today You are You!\\
So what if it costs me a thousand or two.
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-->"Today is your birthday! Today You are You!"
-->"So what if it costs me a thousand or two."
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* TheAmazon: The Birthday Flower Jungle.
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-->"A Wan't just isn't. He just isn't present."

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-->"A Wan't Wasn't just isn't. He just isn't present."
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* UnclePennybags:: The Birthday Bird seems to be this since he doesn't seem to care about expenses.

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* UnclePennybags:: UnclePennybags: The Birthday Bird seems to be this since he doesn't seem to care about expenses.

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* NoAntagonist: This is a story with no conflict whatsoever: just a bird giving a boy an amazing birthday.


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* SugarBowl: This is a story with no conflict whatsoever: just a bird giving a boy an amazing birthday.
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* AlliterativeName: The '''B'''birthday '''B'''ird.

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* AlliterativeName: The '''B'''birthday '''B'''irthday '''B'''ird.
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[[caption-width-right:318:"Today you are you! That is truer than true!/There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"]]

The 20th book written and illustrated by Creator/DrSeuss. Published in 1959 the ''Happy Birthday To You!'' book is about the Birthday Bird who throws the reader an amazing party on their Birthday in the land of Katroo.

Though the story shares the same name as the song HappyBirthdayToYou, the two are not actually related.

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* TheAce: The Birthday Bird is apparently this for the "Asso-see-eye-ation".
* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: Per the norm for [[Creator/DrSeuss Dr.Seuss's]] stories.
* TheAmazon: The Birthday Flower Jungle.
* CoolPet: The Birthday Bird offers "You" one as a present.
* CueTheSun: The Birthday Bird is implied to show up around this time in the "brightening sky" but, with "not all awake".
* HandshakeSubstitute: The "Secret Katroo Birthday Hi-Sign-and-Shake", only good people with birthdays may use this.
* {{Mooning}}: "You" in the book appears to accidentally do this at the Mustard-Off Pools.
* PublicBathhouseScene: The Mustard-Off Pools.
* RetGone: A "Wasn't" is apparently this. There is also apparently something called a Isn't.
-->"A Wan't just isn't. He just isn't present."
* SausageStringSilliness: For lunch as a birthday rule.
-->"For Birthday luncheons, as a rule,"
-->"We serve hot dogs, rolled on a spool."
* SkinnyDipping: "You" do this in the Mustard-Off Pools.
* UnclePennybags:: The Birthday Bird seems to be this since he doesn't seem to care about expenses.
-->"I'll have shipped home to you, Birthday Express."
-->"That costs quite a lot. But I couldn't care less."
-->"Today is your birthday! Today You are You!"
-->"So what if it costs me a thousand or two."

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->"And [[Creator/DrSeuss I]] wish"
->"[[Creator/DrSeuss I]] could do"
->"All these great things for ''you!''"
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