Belmont High teacher Alison Davies knows the power of Dr Seuss.
She dressed as The Cat in the Hat to encourage students to read, in a video posted on social media to mark Book Week.
"The more that you read the more things you will know, the more that you learn the more places you'll go," she said, quoting Dr Seuss in the video.
With Book Week being big on dress-up competitions, she also dressed as Where's Wally and Ben Carson.
Most people probably know who Wally is, but more should probably know about Ben.
"Ben Carson was the first brain surgeon to separate conjoined twins at the brain who both lived," Alison said.
Among the biographies the school library recently bought was one about Ben. Alison used his story to inspire students.
"His whole story is amazing," she said.
He lived with his mum and brother in a poor neighbourhood in Detroit.
They'd come home from school and watch TV every day.
Ben's mum was a cleaner.
"She was cleaning this really rich guy's house, who had a huge library. She went 'Wow, what are these books for?'.
"He said, 'I've read them all. Knowledge is wisdom and power'. She went home, got rid of the TV and made her boys read. They hated it for the first couple of weeks. Then they went from the bottom of the class to the top of the class."
Ben got a scholarship at a prestigious school and went on to great things, including becoming United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
"He was one of the leading brain surgeons in the world for many years. Now he and his wife have this organisation that provides free libraries because he believes so much in reading.
"He believes reading will take you places."
Alison also dressed as a princess for Book Week.
"I said to all the princesses at Belmont High that, if they read, they won't just catch the handsome prince, they'll catch the handsome, intelligent prince," she said.
"It was a bit of fun, encouraging them."
Belmont High principal Gareth Erskine is also a big believer in reading.
"Books can be educational, informative and instructional, a welcome distraction or great comfort but, most importantly, transportive and transformational," he said.
Great Places
This is for all those people who miss travelling. It's part of a Dr Seuss poem called Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there".
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
And you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course, head straight out of town. It's opener there in the wide open air.
Out there things can happen and frequently do - to people as brainy and footsy as you. And then things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along. You'll start happening too.
We can't go to many places at the moment but, then, we can go to places in our minds through reading.
