Great Day for Up!

Author	Dr. Seuss
Illustrator	Quentin Blake
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	August 28, 1974
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
ISBN	9780394829135 [1]
Preceded by	There's a Wocket in My Pocket!
Followed by	Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

Great Day for Up! is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It was published by Random House on August 28, 1974.^[2] It is the first Seuss book not illustrated by the author himself.

Plot

The narrator says that today is a good day for things to go up. As more things are described as getting up, at the very end, the narrator is revealed to be a boy who does not want to get up and wants to sleep in. This ending would later be expanded into I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!.^[3]