Children and adults alike remember Dr. Seuss's cat in the hat, the culinary delight to be found in green eggs and ham, and the fate of the Grinch who stole Christmas. What few know is that Theodor Seuss Geisel's first book came to him, while returning from Europe aboard an ocean liner; he found himself obsessed with the throbbing of the ship's engines, and repeated the beat until the words of his first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, made it to the page. Over the years, he produced 21 of the best-loved ...
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Children and adults alike remember Dr. Seuss's cat in the hat, the culinary delight to be found in green eggs and ham, and the fate of the Grinch who stole Christmas. What few know is that Theodor Seuss Geisel's first book came to him, while returning from Europe aboard an ocean liner; he found himself obsessed with the throbbing of the ship's engines, and repeated the beat until the words of his first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, made it to the page. Over the years, he produced 21 of the best-loved children's books of the 20th century, including The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Horton Hatches the Egg, Bartholomew and the Oobleck, and The Lorax. The 26 articles in this collection (from newspapers, magazines, the academic world and sources in between) provide a variety of perspectives on his work, from how and why he completely revolutionized children's literature to why children were the ones,
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Fair in None jacket. Size: 9x6x0; Ex-Library with spine label, barcode sticker on rear cover, bumped and rubbed. Discard stamp on first page, few stamps and creased pages. A good reading copy.
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Fine. No Jacket. Essays Book is in excellent condition, as new in heavy blue cloth covers with white print. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 219 pages with an intro, chronology, and 26 essays, including And dear Dr. Seuss, the whole world's in love with yeuss, Dr. Seuss and the naked ladies: blowing the lid off the private life of America's most beloved author, The cabinet of Dr. Seuss, Maurice Sendak and Dr. Seuss: a conversation. An interesting volume, certainly.
