Websites
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Take a look and decide for yourself: does The Butter Battle Book match Seuss's usual style?
Movie or TV Productions
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Check out a 1989 TV production of The Butter Battle Book.
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Here's a gem for you: the Butter Battle scene from the Children's Theatre production of Seussical the Musical. Not to be missed.
Historical Documents
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Stuffy? Maybe. But Yale Law School has lots of great primary sources on the Cold War.
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Do you have a taste for political cartoons? Here's a massive collection of cartoons Dr. Seuss drew during WWII. Warning: racism included.
Audio
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Listen as NPR interviews Philip Nel, author of Dr. Seuss: American Icon.
Images
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You can judge this book by its cover. Check out the buttered-bread flags.
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"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Here's an iconic image of a man swinging a sledgehammer at the Berlin Wall. A happy resolution to The Butter Battle Book's cliffhanger ending?
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Dr. Seuss takes on the issue of nationalism in a political cartoon. With cats?